Page 46 of Cocky Player

For the first time in my life, I wasn’t sure how to behave.It should have been so simple.Screw the heart-to-heart chats I gave her last night, things I wanted to give her, and just grab her.Fuck her.

It was our agreement, and I was the dumbass who started liking someone when it was supposed to be just physical.

Like any of the girls I’d dated had done to me, I knew how this ended when someone crossed the unwanted line.

Shit.“So,” I drawled slowly and settled my hands on my hips.“Have a good day at work?”

“It was, well weird, I guess.”

That made two of us.

“I, um, well, I felt like things were weird when my dad and I ran into you and I guess, I was thinking about you, wanting to make sure you’re okay.”

I stepped toward her.She was definitely nervous.I’d learned that from the way she fidgeted with her hair or nibbled on her bottom lip.She did both now and turned to the kitchen.“Do you mind if I have a drink?Some wine or something?”

“Sure.”I followed Brenna to the kitchen, unable to not only admire her small curves, but the seductive sway of her hips and her perfect heart-shaped ass.Her long, lean legs on bare feet.She’d already kicked off her shoes and for some reason, I smiled at that.Would she kick off her shoes and get a drink if she planned on leaving quickly?

It was too bad I didn’t find my balls when I cleaned earlier.I could probably use them.

She helped herself to my wine, grabbed a wineglass, already familiar with my small kitchen and I liked that idea.Of her familiar with my things, my space,methat she’d make herself at home whenever she came over.

Settling against the counter, I curled my hands around the countertop behind me, crossed my feet, and waited.

“You drove all the way across town to make sure I was okay with you literally running into me and getting to see you during the day?”

Her green eyes widened.“You were okay with that?”

“Seeing you?Yeah…especially since I went to bed last night with the sound of you coming through the phone putting a smile on my face.”

She laughed softly.This was where we had it easy.Sex talk.Flirting.It was everything else we were both virgins at…you know, things liketalking.

“I didn’t know if it’d worry you, with Powell there and Shannon.Suddenly in two days it feels like there’s no way we can keep this a secret anymore.”

The problem?Thethisshe referred to was quickly becoming a blurred line.Tossing that conversation I wasn’t prepared to have aside, I asked, “Is that what you want?”

I’d tell her about Powell already knowing about us when she didn’t look three seconds away from Panic-ville.

“I thought that’s what we agreed.”

“Yeah, but I’m pretty sure me spilling all my secrets, things I’ve only ever told one person about besides you, weren’t in the agreement either.”

“Only one person?”Her voice went soft, awed, before an even softer smile kicked her lips at the corners.

“Malcolm.My college roommate and the guy who owns Glitz.Yeah.”

“Oh.”She looked into her wineglass.“I didn’t know it was that private for you.”

“Some guys on the team know.They know my grandpa raised me anyway, but in all honesty, guys don’t really sit around talking about our feelings and shit.”

She smiled at that and took another sip of wine.At this rate, she’d have the bottle drained over a few more awkward pauses.

I pushed off the counter and took the wine from her, setting it on the counter.

“What are you—”

“Why’d you come tonight, Brenna?Was it because you were thinking of my dick and wanting more of it?Or did you want something else?I’m happy to give you either, but if you want something from me, you have to ask for it.”

She stammered for a moment and any other time, it’d be cute as hell.But something was pulsing in me, a need to get past the physical and give something of myself to a girl.Could I do it without getting more back from her as well?

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