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plates before I could put them back down on the table. I put my hands on either side of his firm, chiseled face.
Our lips parted as our mouths opened. I received his tongue between my lips, and I could feel myself drifting towards him across the table. My skin tingled as we continued to kiss. Our lips worked together furiously as all the pent up desire between us began releasing itself in that one kiss.
I pulled myself back and looked into his eyes, so full of desire for me. My toes uncurled. The tension between my legs released. I let out the breath I was holding.
I panted. I wanted to kiss him again. I wanted to let it go wherever it went, but that was wrong. We weren’t supposed to be letting this happen for real. Lucky was just supposed to be a business partner, not my lover.
“If I had known you tasted that good, I would have kissed you a long time ago,” he said.
“No, Cade,” I said, and I saw the shock in his face when I called him by his real name. “We can’t do that again. That was inappropriate.”
“I’m sorry,” he said slowly, his brow furrowed.
“No, I am. I should have known that this was going to happen. I should have seen it coming. All the signs were there,” I told him. And they were. I saw every red flag that had popped up in hindsight, when they had seemed like invitations at first.
“But it was good, wasn’t it?” he said, trying to persuade me to let it continue.
“That’s not the point, Cade. The point is, this is an arrangement. I’m supposed to be posing as your girlfriend, and you’re supposed to be acting as a mentor to one of our Younger Brothers. I think I need to take you home, and going forward, we need to keep this strictly professional.”
I grabbed the plates and put them in the kitchen sink. I felt like such a fool for cooking him a good dinner and leading us both on for so long. I didn’t say anything else to him on the way back to his place to drop him off. We rode in silence.
I didn’t even say anything as he got out of my car and stuck his crutches under his arms to hop up the steps leading to his front door. It killed me to stay quiet, but I wasn’t about to become another notch on his bed post.
Chapter Eight
Lucky
She called me Cade.
My luck was running out. I had agreed to keep things professional and platonic between us after the kiss, but I wasn’t sure if I would be able to uphold my end of that particular bargain. Rather, I didn’t know how long I would be able to do it. It wasn’t a matter of if I gave in to my desires. It was a matter of when .
Still, she called me Cade. My luck had run out with my old team. It had run out on the field, leading to me getting hurt. I hadn’t had any to begin with when it came to my new coach and the team’s owner. But my luck with Kendra, the only luck I had left, was gone.
She’d rejected my advances. She’d told me no. She had stopped me to reiterate that ours was a purely professional relationship.
I had never wanted anyone as much as I wanted her right then. I had worked on other girls to open them up before, but with the ones I went after, it usually just took a few well-placed compliments. It didn’t take much to get between their legs, or to get into their hearts. With Kendra, I could tell it was going to take some serious work.
She wasn’t insecure like the other girls I’d gone after in the past. She didn’t have the same self-esteem issues that everyone else had. But she didn’t know how beautiful she was, and it seemed to make her uncomfortable to try to make herself look beautiful. She didn’t care much about what she looked like. I wanted to change that.
I wanted to put myself in her life. I wanted to go beyond just being her pretend boyfriend, the business partner from the football team who was going to trade mentoring a kid from her charity for a handful of dates.
No, that wasn’t who I
Our lips parted as our mouths opened. I received his tongue between my lips, and I could feel myself drifting towards him across the table. My skin tingled as we continued to kiss. Our lips worked together furiously as all the pent up desire between us began releasing itself in that one kiss.
I pulled myself back and looked into his eyes, so full of desire for me. My toes uncurled. The tension between my legs released. I let out the breath I was holding.
I panted. I wanted to kiss him again. I wanted to let it go wherever it went, but that was wrong. We weren’t supposed to be letting this happen for real. Lucky was just supposed to be a business partner, not my lover.
“If I had known you tasted that good, I would have kissed you a long time ago,” he said.
“No, Cade,” I said, and I saw the shock in his face when I called him by his real name. “We can’t do that again. That was inappropriate.”
“I’m sorry,” he said slowly, his brow furrowed.
“No, I am. I should have known that this was going to happen. I should have seen it coming. All the signs were there,” I told him. And they were. I saw every red flag that had popped up in hindsight, when they had seemed like invitations at first.
“But it was good, wasn’t it?” he said, trying to persuade me to let it continue.
“That’s not the point, Cade. The point is, this is an arrangement. I’m supposed to be posing as your girlfriend, and you’re supposed to be acting as a mentor to one of our Younger Brothers. I think I need to take you home, and going forward, we need to keep this strictly professional.”
I grabbed the plates and put them in the kitchen sink. I felt like such a fool for cooking him a good dinner and leading us both on for so long. I didn’t say anything else to him on the way back to his place to drop him off. We rode in silence.
I didn’t even say anything as he got out of my car and stuck his crutches under his arms to hop up the steps leading to his front door. It killed me to stay quiet, but I wasn’t about to become another notch on his bed post.
Chapter Eight
Lucky
She called me Cade.
My luck was running out. I had agreed to keep things professional and platonic between us after the kiss, but I wasn’t sure if I would be able to uphold my end of that particular bargain. Rather, I didn’t know how long I would be able to do it. It wasn’t a matter of if I gave in to my desires. It was a matter of when .
Still, she called me Cade. My luck had run out with my old team. It had run out on the field, leading to me getting hurt. I hadn’t had any to begin with when it came to my new coach and the team’s owner. But my luck with Kendra, the only luck I had left, was gone.
She’d rejected my advances. She’d told me no. She had stopped me to reiterate that ours was a purely professional relationship.
I had never wanted anyone as much as I wanted her right then. I had worked on other girls to open them up before, but with the ones I went after, it usually just took a few well-placed compliments. It didn’t take much to get between their legs, or to get into their hearts. With Kendra, I could tell it was going to take some serious work.
She wasn’t insecure like the other girls I’d gone after in the past. She didn’t have the same self-esteem issues that everyone else had. But she didn’t know how beautiful she was, and it seemed to make her uncomfortable to try to make herself look beautiful. She didn’t care much about what she looked like. I wanted to change that.
I wanted to put myself in her life. I wanted to go beyond just being her pretend boyfriend, the business partner from the football team who was going to trade mentoring a kid from her charity for a handful of dates.
No, that wasn’t who I
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