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“How? I’m only visiting Dublin, while you live here. Soon, I’ll be moving on to see some of Europe before I go back to the US.”
My throat felt tight. “So, what you said about wanting something serious and asking if I was worth it… Why would you ask me that?”
Liv looked down. “Because I want those things and having them with you would be a dream, but not if we live in two different countries.” Raising her head up, she looked deep into my eyes. “Falling in love with you would be the easiest thing in the world, Charles.”
“But you don’t want to.” All my fear of rejection told me to pull back before she could turn me away.
“I do. I’m just afraid that I won’t be enough and that you’ll hurt me.”
“No, no, no.” The vulnerable expression on her face sparked my protectiveness and I cupped her face. “You’re more than enough.”
“You only say that because you don’t know my worst sides yet.”
Trying to ease the tense atmosphere, I attempted a bit of humor. “You mean your snoring, your fetish, or your indecisiveness?”
“You heard me snore?”
“A little. It was cute.” I leaned in and kissed her before pulling back and locking eyes with her again. “I get that you’re scared. From the moment we reconnected, everything between us has moved fast. But that’s because it’s so freaking natural and effortless for me to be around you. I don’t think you understand how rare it is for me to say that about another person. People drain me, Liv. But not you. With you I can’t get enough, and that has to mean something.”
She brushed her hands down the front of my chest. “I feel the same way.”
“Good.” I let out a sigh of relief. “Then can we at least agree to explore this chemistry between us while we’re in the same country? Let me convince you to stay a bit longer.”
“And then what happens when I eventually have to go back? Will you come with me?”
I shook my head. “I don’t have all the answers, but if we’re meant to be together, we’ll figure it out. Maybe you can stay with me and my friends for a while. I’d love for you to meet them.”
“You mean the mastermind group?”
“Yes. They are the nicest people. Just the fact that they worry about me when I don’t come home one night.… I mean, doesn’t that say a lot about their level of care for me?”
Liv didn’t answer, but she moved up on her knees and hugged me tight. There was a sadness in her.
“What’s wrong?”
“I just hope that you’re right. That it feels so magical because we’re meant to be together.”
I folded my arms around her and inhaled her feminine scent deep into my lungs. “I hope so too.”
Moving her head, she pressed her lips against my neck and kissed me. I was sitting on the bed and with her on her knees, she was a little higher up than me. I closed my eyes and let her place kisses down my neck, and then her tongue licked all the way up again to my earlobe. My senses went into overdrive right away and I pulled her onto my lap. Her fingernails raked over my back making my spine feel like a fuse on fire.
I growled low. “You can’t do that and not expect me to want more.”
“What more do you want?” Her voice was amorous and silky.
My hands slid up under her t-shirt and cupped both her breasts. “I want to see what I’m holding.”
She complied and took off her shirt, and like a hungry baby, my lips were drawn to her nipples. I loved the feeling of them hardening in my mouth as I suckled, nibbled, and played with them.
“Do you like them?”
“Uh-huh.” My answer was muffled because my mouth was full of one of her delicious breasts.
Pulling the rim of my shirt up, she gestured for me to undress too. I had no problem being naked with her and when she whispered in my ear to lose my briefs, I lifted her off my lap and turned to sit on the edge of the bed where I could pull them off.
Liv got off the bed and came to kneel in front of me. She smiled when she let her nails run from my knees and all the way up my inner thighs. I touched her hair, watching her with curiosity as she closed her hand around my cock and began stroking it up and down. My breathing turned shallow and I leaned back and rested on my hands behind me while watching her.
“Do you want to play a game?” There was mischief in her eyes.
