Page 69 of Win Some Love Some
Lemons.
Her fingers twitched along the back of my neck. If she were mine, she would know that I liked…yes, just that. Her nails scratching along the base of my hairline.
If she were mine, she’d fit her thigh between my legs. A tease. Just enough pressure to let me know she was close, tempting, but so far away at the same time. Because we were here in this room, at this wedding, with all these people around who knew us.
This is Nora, I told myself. And I forced myself to flash back on every moment I could remember. To playing dolls, to her patting my face and telling me she loved me, the first time I’d ever heard those words. To her crying when she fell and wanted to be carried only by me. When she was ten, and those kids stole her hat and she demanded I get it back. When she was fifteen and tried to get me to buy her and her friends White Claws – I didn’t. To when she was seventeen and showing off her dress for the prom.
All those memories. All of them buried so deep in my brain I couldn’t think about a time when she wasn’t…there.
Except for the last six years. There and not there.
“Nick?”
Her voice was soft. Uncertain. I looked down into her eyes. Gazed really. She seemed confused. When really there wasnothing to be confused about. We were together and it felt good. So good.
“Oh no,” she said, shaking her head. “No.” Her face sharpened. She was angry? “You don’t get to…you don’t get to do this to me.” She jerked out of my arms, leaving me on the dance floor.
Like a fool, I stood there watching her push through the dancers, not certain what to do. People were staring, whispering.
I walked over to the table where I’d left my beer and took a seat, making sure I was covered by the table.
Because my dick hadn’t just twitched.
I was fully, and painfully, hard. And worse. She knew it.
“Nora, stop,”I called out to her. She was stomping through the parking lot with a lot of determination for someone who didn’t have the keys to the car. It had taken me a minute to get control over my body before I could follow her. “Nora!”
She turned mid stride and jabbed her finger at me. “I am so mad at you!”
“Why?” I said, flailing my arms wide.
“Why?” she shrieked. “Why?”
I reached for her upper arm to hold her in place and she smacked my hand away.
“Let’s calm down,” I said quietly. Holding my hands up like she was robbing me.
People weren’t exactly leaving the wedding in droves, but there were enough valet attendants nearby that I didn’t want to make a scene.
“Don’t you tell me to calm down,” she hissed at me. “You know what you did.”
“What did I do?” I mean, I knew what hadhappened,but it wasn’t like I had done anything on purpose.
“Oh no, don’t you try and gaslight me. You were all, let’s dance. Look into my eyes. I compel you. You can’t vampire me.”
“That makes no sense.”
“It makes perfect sense. You can’t charm me, Nick. You can’tlureme. Let’s remember our history. You. Rejected. Me.”
The words were a weapon she aimed and fired.
“We aren’t supposed to talk about that night, remember?”
“I’m changing the rules!” She snapped.
Fine. “I didn’t reject you. You didn’t know what was in your head.”
“No, Nick, you didn’t know what was in your heart.”
