Page 44 of Forgotten Desires

I just need to come up with them.

Crew stands there, arms crossed over his broad chest, looking like the delicious man I want nothing more than to climb into that monster of a bed with and forget life exists.

However, that would be stupid.

Stupid is for young girls and I’m not that anymore.

“Do you have rules or are you just going to come up with them on the fly?” he asks.

“I’m not sure yet.”

He grins and God, he looks so hot when he does. This! This is going to be my first rule. No thinking that Crew is hot.

But then his stunning blue eyes are staring at me and I can feel my insides start to go mushy.

I clear my throat. “Rule number one, no sex.”

“You want us to have a marriage with no sex?”

No.

“Yes.”

“Okay, if that’s what you want. I will not initiate sex with you,” he promises.

I purse my lips. “You think I’m going to initiate with you?”

Crew walks over to his—our—bed and sits, tossing his shoes off. “If I remember, it was you who threw herself at me that night. I think I was trying to hold off on us having sex.”

I gasp. “Umm, absolutely not. We made out, you went down on me, and then somehow, I was on my back, and you kept asking if it was okay.”

Crew shakes his head. “I don’t think that’s how it went.”

“I promise, it is.”

I remember everything about that night. I also remember me begging at some point, but we’re not going to bring that up.

He pulls his tie loose, letting it hang around his neck. “You asked me to come to your room, you kicked your roommate out, and we were lying there. Then you said, ‘Crew, please make love to me.’”

Oh, he’s so full of shit. “I never,eversaid that.”

“Pretty sure that’s how it went.”

“Then you’ve lost your memories somewhere in your old age. I assure you, I did not ask you to make love to me.”

I probably thought it, but he doesn’t read minds so . . . I win.

“I don’t know about that,” he says and then smacks his lips. “If your mouth didn’t say it, I know your eyes did.”

I stare at him, glaring more than anything. “What are my eyes saying now?”

“That you are trying to undress me.”

I huff. “Not even a little. Time to get an eye exam.”

Crew gets back to his feet, moving toward me. “It’s fine. Like I said, I will not seduce you and if you try to seduce me, which is probably going to happen, I will do my best to resist you . . . or not.”

Self-absorbed man.

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