Page 103 of Of Pucking Course

“So if you’re irrational, then I was a psycho,” I say.

She chuckles softly and wraps her hands around my wrists. “You’re not a psycho. You’re a sweetheart.”

She tiptoes up and presses a soft, teasing kiss to my lips.

“I need to be honest with you, Sam,” she says when we break apart. “I don’t want to keep going with the way things are between us.”

My stomach plummets to my feet.

I swallow back the dread inside of me and try not to freak out. If she’s no longer interested in this arrangement that we have, then she has every right to end it…even though it would kill me to lose her.

I drop my hands from her face, nodding as I start to step away from her, but she catches my wrist in her hand.

“I can’t just hook up with you anymore,” she says. “I have feelings for you, Sam. Serious feelings.”

My breath lodges in my throat. “You do?”

She nods, her eyes big again. She bites her lip like she’s nervous.

“I don’t want you to just be the guy who coaches me in the bedroom anymore. I…I want you to be more than that.” She pauses and lets out a breath. “I want you to be my boyfriend.”

My heart hammers in my chest.

“I know that probably sounds insane. I mean, I’m still legally married?—”

I grab her face and kiss her. Hard. She moans into my mouth and grips her hands around my forearms. She digs her fingers into my muscles as our kiss amps up.

When we break apart, we’re both panting. Eyes closed, I rest my forehead against hers.

“I want that too,” I say. “I want you to be my girlfriend, Dakota.”

She leans back and looks me in the eye. “You do?”

“Fuck yes, I do. I don’t care that you’re married. I know you’re over Jake. That’s just a piece of paper as far as I’m concerned.”

She lets out a shaky breath and starts to smile.

“I told your brother I was seeing someone,” I say. Her smile fades, and her mouth turns into an “O” shape.

“You did?”

I nod. “I didn’t say it was you. I know he can’t know about us. But after you walked off, I made it clear to him that I was seeing someone and wasn’t interested in anyone else.”

There’s a flash of intensity in her mahogany eyes. She starts to smile. “I’m so glad you did that.”

“You are?”

She nods and holds my hand in hers. Emotion thundersthrough me as I look at the woman I’ve had feelings for for the past five years. The woman who’s now my girlfriend.

I need to tell her everything. She deserves to know.

“There’s something I need to tell you, Dakota.”

“Okay…” Her tone is unsure.

“You need to know just how deep things run between me and your brother. You need to know why I never told you how I felt about you.”

Chapter 37

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