Page 105 of Can't Get Over You
“Nothing.” She averted her gaze. “I just went to the bathroom.”
“Bullshit.” He shook his head. “You ran like the building was on fire. Now, what happened?” A man moved past them to get to the men’s room, and Jude pulled her farther down the hallway.
“Nothing. Excuse me.” She tried to slide around him, but he blocked her way. “I have to get back to my table.”
“Cool. Soon as you talk to me, you can do that.”
“Jude—” What was the point of pretending? This man could read her like no one else. “Fine. I spent the whole night watching women flirt with you, and then, you left with a beautiful blonde?—”
“You mean Kelsey?”
“Well, I don’t know her name.”
“So what, you think I had a quickie in the parking lot?”
“No.” It did sound ridiculous. “That’s not the point.”
“Some tourist asshole was getting aggressive with her, and she asked me to walk her to her car.”
“That was nice of you. And that’s, you know, I’m sure part of your job. I just…I think we shouldn’t have sex anymore.”Yes, that’s good. That’s the point.
Wait, no. I want sex with him.
Didn’t I just give myself permission to do it for five more weeks?
No.She shook her head. “I can’t do it. I’m just not cut out for it.”
His eyes flared, and his features tightened. “For sex?”
“No, I like sex. I like it with you. But…”
“But women are going to ask me to walk them to their cars, and I won’t be able to keep from fucking them in their backseats?” He took a step back, folding his arms across his chest. “My bare white ass pumping for everyone in the parking lot to see?” He pressed his lips together in a look of feigned concern. “My dad wants to hand the bar over to me. He’s gonna bepissed.”
“No, it’s not that. I trust you. I really do. It’s more about me.” She pulled him to the end of the hallway. “It’s been a wild week, and my emotions are all over the place. And when I saw all those women flirting with you, it just sent me spiraling.”
“Because?”
“Because I’m a forever girl, Jude.” It was a relief to say it out loud. “I’ve only ever dated with a purpose. Right now, I’m living with the boy I had a crush on in high school, and I’m getting to know the man who’s so much better in real life than my fantasies, and I know it might not go anywhere. We want different things, and?—”
“You’re scared.”
“I’m terrified.” She let out a breath.
“You done now?”
She nodded, still unsettled.
“I can’t make any promises. I don’t know if the judge will even consider my adoption request.Youleft a wedding a week ago, and I don’t know where your head is at.”
That was fair.
“But if you think, after I finally got you into my bed, that I’d evenlookat another woman, you’re out of your mind. You know why I came to the village back in high school? Because you were my peace. My quiet place. There was nowhere I’d rather be than with you.”
“I felt the same way.”
“I rubbed myself raw fantasizing about you. And now that I know what it’s like to touch you, to watch you fall apart under mytongue, no one—do you hear me, Fee? No one exists outside of you. That’s theonlything I’m 100 percent certain about.”
She believed him so thoroughly that she flung herself into his arms. He got a fistful of her hair and yanked her head back, planting a kiss on her mouth and stealing the breath from her lungs.
