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“It doesn’t sound crazy,” he snarls, knohat I’ to say before I said it

Of course, he does, s He’s your forever man Of course, he can read you

He grits his teeth as his eyes skihway

“Maybe it should Yeah, you’re right about that Hell, I’ve been fighting this feeling ever since I laid eyes on you, trying to convinceto hold myself back But it’s i-ever I know it’s not fair, but if I ever saw you with another man, I’d tear him to pieces I’d end him”

His voice has gotten louder, fiercer, and his grip is even harder on the steering wheel if that’s even possible It’s like he’s going to tear it off as he envisions this make-believe competitor

“I don’t want anyone else” I reach forward and grab onto his arernails into his bare skin “Ever I only want you”

“But you were scared”

“Yeah, because you were so intense and… Things are still the same, Braden, with me”

“What do you mean?”

“Just because we both feel the sa nals, it doesn’t mean I can just switch off the anxious part of me off I can’t just become this sex-crazed super-experienced woman”

“I don’t want that,” he snaps “That’s all in your head I want you I want your body I want your tits and your tight hole and your round gorgeous ass and those thick thighs of yours But I don’t need you to be anything other than who you are Haven’t I already made that clear?”

A note of anxiety flutters inside me

“You don’t even know me,” I murmur “How can you feel like this?”

He shoots me a quick smirk as he joins the freeway

“I could ask you the sa”

I laugh, the feeling sending warh , the sound of our relief and joy fusing and hovering all around us

Our eyes meet and he shakes his head as if to say, What the hell are we doing?

I shoot a look back at hi happy, I think

I wonder if I iine the silent communication, but I’m certain I don’t I’m certain it’s there

“You’re right,” he says once we calotten the chance to know you, not properly So let me take you out”