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“I want you, too, Stryker, but I’m scared”
“What are you scared of?” I wrap her ar in the
“That you’ll think I’m stupid and walk away”
Chapter Eight
Coral
Why would you think that?”
I s hard How do you tell a ly slept with anyone in your life? That you’re basically a virgin?
“Because I’ve never done this before” His eyes bug out, but he doesn’t let ently
I don’t knohat it is about thisfor him How is that possible when I don’t even know him? Not really
However, in the e of character I read people well This man is lonely Not in the conventional sense He’s surrounded by people every day, but deep inside, he’s alone
I know from Taylor that he has no fa on the streets when he was nineteen, skinny from starvation, dirty and alone He tried to rob BlackJack, who took pity on Stryker and took hiht him into the club
To look at him now, you’d never know this beautiful iant in every way, years of hard work and working out with the iant of a erous on level’s most can't even fathom However, I see the beautiful man inside He’s kind, compassionate, warm, and so beautiful it floors me
Shepard willhere withet h shit in er I can survive anything, but it doesn’t hurt to be in the ar man ould kill an ar way, just as he did tonight with that guy
Don’t think about what happened tonight and what Stryker so obviously did to that man It will only play on yourthisfor you He just saved your life, and now he’s here trying to tell you how he feels Just be honest with him
“I want you so badly, Stryker I want you to touchto other woo all the way”
I don’t knohat else to say I iirl to a man like him, but I won’t force myself to sleep with him when I’m not ready I wouldn’t be all there with him, and he deserves a woman’s full attention
My hands slide down his chest as I lower my head I feel stupid, but at least I kno He doesn’t wantother than my body I was du more
His hand cupsmy head I look deep into his eyes, I see so much within them He wants to be loved so badly I want to be the one to love him I wish it could be me
“What happened to you, baby?” His voice is low, cal, full of curiosity How can he read me like this? “Who hurt you?”
“I don’t want to talk about it, Stryker I’m not ready” I don’t think I ever will be, and definitely not with this man
He doesn’t say anything, he just pullsbody I wrap ood to be held
He rocksa sain, not with me around”
“Planning to be around long?”
“As long as you want me, baby”
Oh, god Kill me now My ovaries are about to explode for this man
“What’s happening between us, Mark?” I feel hiiven name, but I need to know I don’t want to open my heart to him if I’m not really what he wants