Page 78 of Play of Love
“Amy, no one cares. You’d be surprised what goes on within these walls.”
“That doesn’t mean we should add to it.”
I looked at her and wondered if maybe she just didn’t like me. Maybe I was forcing this too much and should stop before I pushed her away.
“What’s wrong with me?” I asked her. I wanted to know what she thought.
She giggled.
“Okay I get it, that was the wrong question.” She’d seen me at my worse and the way I’d treated her when we first met was atrocious.
“No.” She smiled at me. “Nothing is wrong with you, Josh. It’s me.”
“What could possibly be wrong with you?”
“I like you too much, and I shouldn’t.” I held her green gaze and looked at her beautiful face. I didn’t think I’d ever seen anyone so beautiful in my life, and it was a beauty that came from within and made her physical beauty even more pronounced than it was.
Suddenly she looked worried.
“Why shouldn’t you? I like you too much too.” I wouldn’t kid myself it was more than justlike. Like was too meager a word to describe how I felt about her. And I only knew because I’d never felt it before. I held her close and caressed the edge of her tiny waist.
“Do you?” She searched my eyes as if she was trying to find something.
“You know I do. Come here, baby.” I crooked my finger and she leaned forward, pressing her lips to mine. Every time I kissed her a magical force rushed over my body. I slid my hand up to the soft skin of her face, securing my lips to hers. She ran her hands up my bare skin leaving a heated blaze of fire where she touched. Everywhere on me felt hot all at once and I had to restrain myself. As a soft moan escaped her lips it drove me wild and I thought I would indeed go crazy.
Then I couldn’t have felt more aggravated when I heard the damn wolf whistles from my so-called friends.
The sound pulled us apart and she looked so embarrassed her whole face turned red. She jumped off my lap as the guys started clapping and laughing.
I was so mad I threw an old football at Gage, who of course caught it with no effort.
“Looks like we have a winner,” Corey teased, clapping the loudest of them all. “Well done, Amy, you certainly have tamed the wild beast. Lord have mercy.” He was all Texan now.
“Guys, if you want to live, you better move from my sight.” I was fuming.
“Josh.” The dainty hands on my arm brought me back to my senses. I looked down at Amy and saw that she was smiling sweetly up at me. “Let’s go home.”
Home. I looked at her and for some reason the wordhomestood out in my mind. It made me think of that warm feeling she’d brought to the house since she started living there.
“I’ll go wait in the car.” She continued to blush as she walked past the guys who were still clapping.
Once she was gone I looked back to them. “You’re all a bunch of jerks, you know that.” The humor returned to me.
“It’s just good to see you happy, man,” Gage said. “Roll with it.”
Corey came over to me. “You should see your face.”
“What’s wrong with my face?”
“I’ve never seen you look at anyone like that before. Savor it man, women like that only come into your life once in a lifetime.” Corey rested a hand on my shoulder and nodded.
I knew that he was right. It was just a scary thought, but he was right.
