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talk to her. I didn’t even give a damn what we talked about as long as I got to listen to her angelic voice.
“Ethan,” she whispered.
I started to shut the door and paused. “What, beautiful?”
“You came to my house last night?” She shifted in her seat, and it took all my focus not to take her back in my arms.
“Yeah, I thought that was apparent.” I softly shut the door. I needed the brief respite that walking around to the driver’s door gave me. I didn’t know how I was going to get through the day without wrapping myself around her. I reminded myself that she needed to learn to trust me first.
She switched the radio off as I climbed in the truck. “Why did you tell me you didn’t want me when I went to that club?”
“Hold on, Privy, I never said I didn’t want you.” I started the truck and gunned the engine. Calm down. “I don’t think my lips are capable of speaking those words. I didn’t want you there. You’re too damn good for a place like that.” Fuck, I didn’t want to talk about that.
“Have you taken me there before?”
I gripped the steering wheel and stared out the windshield. “Hell. No. I never EVER went there when we were together much less with you.”
“Did you make love to someone there last night?” she asked then nervously pulled on her bottom lip. Oh, how I missed her nervous ticks. In anybody else, they would’ve driven me crazy. But with her they were fucking endearing.
“No, I’ve only made love to one lady. I fucked the hell out of someone there last night.” I flexed one hand around the steering wheel and ran the other sweaty palm over my jeans before taking her hand in mine.
“You fucked someone then crawled into my bed?” She glanced down at our hands intertwined with each other but didn’t pull away.
“Babe, don’t go there. I’m a dark, dark soul, and when I don’t have you, I go to those dark places. But what we have . . . Please, babe, don’t.” I took a deep breath. Crap, she was driving me insane. If I wanted to win her back, I needed to calm the fuck down. I couldn’t even glance over at Dylan, but I felt her eyes on me. Damn, I hated not having control.
“Why did you even admit to it?” She spoke so softly I barely heard that sweet voice over the radio.
“Because I lied to you once, and because of that lie, I’ve spent the last four months in hell.” I thumped her cane. “And I still am because you’ve been hurting those last four months, and I wasn’t there for you.”
Dylan never shifted her eyes off me. She was studying me. It was taking everything in me not to slam that truck over to the side of the road, jerk her onto my lap, and beg her to love me. I wanted to make her promise to never leave me again. She wasn’t ready for that, and I didn’t know if she ever would be. She held her head down, and I saw her wipe away the tears out of the corner of her eyes. Fuck it. I skidded to the curb and shifted my old Ford into park. I pushed the armrest into the back of the seat, pulled her next to me then turned and cradled her face into my hands. “What’s wrong, Privy?”
“I want to remember. You were with another girl last night, and I want to kill her not you. You lied to me, and I don’t even know what that lie is. You admitted to being dark. I’m scared to love you and later learn that we’re not meant to be.”
“I want to kill me for doing that last night. It gnaws at me that it even happened.” I swept my fingers through her silky hair. That deep auburn hair was the first thing that drew her to me. “I want to tell you. I want to tell you everything.”
“But you can’t. I know.”
“I can tell you that we are meant to be together. You’re it for me. No other girl has captured me like you have.”
“What if we both have secrets now?”
“Then we’ll learn how to deal with it. I’m never letting you go
“Ethan,” she whispered.
I started to shut the door and paused. “What, beautiful?”
“You came to my house last night?” She shifted in her seat, and it took all my focus not to take her back in my arms.
“Yeah, I thought that was apparent.” I softly shut the door. I needed the brief respite that walking around to the driver’s door gave me. I didn’t know how I was going to get through the day without wrapping myself around her. I reminded myself that she needed to learn to trust me first.
She switched the radio off as I climbed in the truck. “Why did you tell me you didn’t want me when I went to that club?”
“Hold on, Privy, I never said I didn’t want you.” I started the truck and gunned the engine. Calm down. “I don’t think my lips are capable of speaking those words. I didn’t want you there. You’re too damn good for a place like that.” Fuck, I didn’t want to talk about that.
“Have you taken me there before?”
I gripped the steering wheel and stared out the windshield. “Hell. No. I never EVER went there when we were together much less with you.”
“Did you make love to someone there last night?” she asked then nervously pulled on her bottom lip. Oh, how I missed her nervous ticks. In anybody else, they would’ve driven me crazy. But with her they were fucking endearing.
“No, I’ve only made love to one lady. I fucked the hell out of someone there last night.” I flexed one hand around the steering wheel and ran the other sweaty palm over my jeans before taking her hand in mine.
“You fucked someone then crawled into my bed?” She glanced down at our hands intertwined with each other but didn’t pull away.
“Babe, don’t go there. I’m a dark, dark soul, and when I don’t have you, I go to those dark places. But what we have . . . Please, babe, don’t.” I took a deep breath. Crap, she was driving me insane. If I wanted to win her back, I needed to calm the fuck down. I couldn’t even glance over at Dylan, but I felt her eyes on me. Damn, I hated not having control.
“Why did you even admit to it?” She spoke so softly I barely heard that sweet voice over the radio.
“Because I lied to you once, and because of that lie, I’ve spent the last four months in hell.” I thumped her cane. “And I still am because you’ve been hurting those last four months, and I wasn’t there for you.”
Dylan never shifted her eyes off me. She was studying me. It was taking everything in me not to slam that truck over to the side of the road, jerk her onto my lap, and beg her to love me. I wanted to make her promise to never leave me again. She wasn’t ready for that, and I didn’t know if she ever would be. She held her head down, and I saw her wipe away the tears out of the corner of her eyes. Fuck it. I skidded to the curb and shifted my old Ford into park. I pushed the armrest into the back of the seat, pulled her next to me then turned and cradled her face into my hands. “What’s wrong, Privy?”
“I want to remember. You were with another girl last night, and I want to kill her not you. You lied to me, and I don’t even know what that lie is. You admitted to being dark. I’m scared to love you and later learn that we’re not meant to be.”
“I want to kill me for doing that last night. It gnaws at me that it even happened.” I swept my fingers through her silky hair. That deep auburn hair was the first thing that drew her to me. “I want to tell you. I want to tell you everything.”
“But you can’t. I know.”
“I can tell you that we are meant to be together. You’re it for me. No other girl has captured me like you have.”
“What if we both have secrets now?”
“Then we’ll learn how to deal with it. I’m never letting you go
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