I see her stiffen and her eyes drop down to my lips at my tone. Her gaze stays on my mouth for a beat longer than appropriate.

Maybe she wants me just as bad as I want her.

A smile breaks out onto my face at the realization. Tonight just got a lot more exciting.

“Sorry,” Cam mutters.

I grab her hand, “No need to be sorry. Just remember that this secret is between us and it needs to stay that way.”

Cam nods but doesn’t pull her hand away.

Our eyes lock and I stare into her deep eyes. She has the most gorgeous eyes I have ever seen. I get lost looking into them.

“Do you know what you are going to get?” Cam asks, breaking our eye contact and looking down at her menu.

“The Chicken Parmigiana is to die for,” I say, trying not to focus on the buzzing in my hand from our skin to skin contact.

“Maybe I will try that,” Cam says smiling down at the menu. “How is the company doing?”

Her question catches me off guard.

“It’s going well, we had a new offer the other week but we turned it down. We’re looking for cheaper options currently,” I say, eyeing her up and down.

“That’s good. I always thought your techy bedroom was cute.”

My heart skipped a beat at her words.

I was such a nerd when it came to tech but knowing that she thought it was cute made my heart soar.

“Did you think I was cute?” I teased.

Cam looked up at me again before rolling her eyes.

“Of course I did, I mean look at you,” she dropped my hand and gestured to me.

My cheeks heated up as I felt myself flushing. I had not blushed like this since before my wife died.

I was proud of my physique, I worked hard to look this good but as a teen I was insecure.

“I didn’t always look this good,” I teased her.

“You definitely did, that’s why I always had such a big crush on you growing up,” Cam confesses, hiding her face behind her menu.

“You had a crush on me?”

Cam stays quiet as the menu shields her face which made me realize her words were true. Camdyn Schriefer had a crush on me.

“If it makes you feel any better, I always thought you were really pretty.”

Cam drops the menu and looks up at me with glassy eyes.

“Really?”

“Yeah,” now it was my turn to turn shy. “You had such long and soft hair and the perfect tan. But you were my kid sisters best friend and so much younger than me. It was inappropriate so I picked on you instead.”

Cam nods in understanding and we just stare at each other.

She really was stunning and her lips were the perfect size and poutiness. All I wanted to do was throw her on the table and kiss her senseless.