Page 52 of Finding Her Leading Man

“I think we’d easily kill each other.” He kissed her hard and rough, leaving them both out of breath. “God, but it’d be a fun way to die.”

“Yes. It would. Although we might both be dead if we don’t start practicing this song for the wedding.” She climbed off him and held out her hand. “Stand up. Let’s try and sing.”

“Why do I have to stand up to do that?” He took her hand and rose.

“You’ll have better breath.”

He chuckled and ran a hand over her hair. “Like that will matter. I’m not that good, Sam. No matter what you thought you heard in the car.”

“I wanted to tryHeaven.I listened to that version you mentioned.”

Trevor reached for his guitar. “I learned it after our last meeting. And that’s what you want me to sing with you?” He grimaced as he sat back down in a chair, setting the guitar across his thigh. “I don’t think the extra breath will help keep me on key. Are we doing it the way they did on that video?”

Samantha grabbed her phone and pulled up the cover ofHeavenby Bryan Adams.

He listened to the entire song. “I don’t think I can do the solo part, but I’ll try the chorus with you.” He shook his head again. “I cannot believe that I’m doing this.”

She smiled. “If it’s horrible, then we’ll figure something else out, or you don’t have to sing. But I bet it will be good. Just try it the way they did in the video. We can always rearrange it.” When they’d sang in the car, he’d been on key. “Let me pull up the words.”

He strummed his guitar. “Not sure even knowing the words will help.”

“Stop being so negative and just try. This song is a stretch for me as well. It’s a softer song than I’m used to singing.”

His fingers moved over the strings in the opening melody. “Fine. Let me see the words.”

Samantha stepped behind his shoulder, holding it so they could both see the screen. She rested her empty hand on his shoulder, heightening their intimacy.

And she sang, each word ringing with unexpected emotion.

At the chorus, Trevor joined in without any hesitation. Her hand tightened on his shoulder as she swayed closer. She dropped out of the chorus a few times, giving him the solo for a few of the words.

This was it. It only took one chorus to confirm thatthiswas their song.

She softened her voice, keeping it in harmony with his.

Trevor picked up the start to the last chorus alone before swapping with her, then them both finishing together.

Silence overtook the room aside from the soft rush of her breath. “God, Trevor. I…”

He set his guitar to the side and turned to face her. His expression didn’t reveal anything. She didn’t know what to say. Music was powerful. She knew that after years of being in the business, but nothing had ever connected her with someone before. Not singing with Jasper or any other man.

It’d opened her heart. Her tender, jumbled mess of a heart, and she had no clue what to do. Walk away? After that, …impossible.

His hands cupped her face, and he kissed her.

Her phone fell from her hand to the floor. The cover ofHeavenstarted playing again. It would be so easy to close her eyes and pretend like their future was endless. Like she didn’t leave in a few weeks.

Could she? Could she ignore the end? The consequences? The pain that she knew would come when she walked away and went back to her life?

In one word: Yes.

She untucked his shirt, dragging it up and over his head, forcing him to break the kissing momentarily. But his lips found hers again, more intense. More demanding.

She skimmed her hands over his shoulders and down his back. This was what she wanted.

The hard edge of his kiss softened almost instantaneously. He slid his hands along the curve of her waist underneath her shirt.

But then he pulled away.

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