An Informal Introduction (Informal Romance Book 3) by Heather Gray

Author:Heather Gray [Gray, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ladybug Lit
Published: 2016-05-01T16:00:00+00:00

After they’d eaten their meal and mingled a bit more with some of the seniors — artfully avoiding Bernice and chatty Gertrude — Caleb directed Lily toward the back of his mom’s property. They approached the trees, and she hesitated. “I thought we decided not to be alone.”

He laced his fingers through hers. “I have it under control. No kissing, I promise.”

Lily laughed, and he arched an eyebrow.

“The problem,” she told him with a shake of her finger, “is that I might want you to kiss me. What then?”

He glanced skyward, a rueful look on his face. “You sure do know how to make it hard on a guy, don’t you?”

They broke through the trees, and she gasped in surprise. “This is beautiful.”

Caleb stood, feet planted firmly apart, hands crossed over his chest, his face stamped with one hundred percent pure unmitigated male pride. “This is the corner of Virginia I’ve claimed as my own. You look good in it.”

Pleasure curled its way through Lily’s middle. A quick glance around told her a couple of tree stumps were arranged for sitting, so she tucked her dress around her legs and settled onto one. Caleb surveyed the remaining ones before choosing his seat more than ten feet away from her. She smiled. He took his no-kissing promise seriously.

“I’m old-fashioned.” He offered no apology. “When God makes something clear to me, I go for it. No hemming and hawing, no hesitating. Just an all-out leap of faith in the direction He’s given me.”

Anticipation built inside Lily until her fingers and toes tingled with it. He was going somewhere with this, and while tempted to rush him along, she decided to stay silent and savor every moment of their time in the trees.

“The hooking up and hanging out thing isn’t really my way. I’m more of a let’s-date or be-my-girlfriend guy. What do you say?”

Not many people would describe Lily as shy, but looking at Caleb sitting there in his jeans, boots, button-up shirt, and cowboy hat, she couldn’t help but hesitate. You’ve been saying it to me since the first moment I saw concern in his eyes about his mom’s condition, Lord. I know in my heart You’re telling me yes, but a part of me is scared. This is going fast.

“I want to say yes, but can we talk about a couple things first?”

“Of course.” He nodded his agreement, but his slate grey eyes hid his thoughts.

Lily chose her words carefully. “Different people have different expectations when it comes to dating. We share chemistry, maybe too much of it.” How to say it? She’d never been this tempted with a man before, so this was new territory for her. Calling it awkward was like calling a military cargo plane a crop-duster. “I, uh, I wonder what your expectations are for, uh, for…”

Caleb’s eyes rounded and his skin flushed hot red — whether from embarrassment or desire, Lily couldn’t tell. He parted his lips as though to say something, then swallowed instead. He at last found his voice, and it brooked no room for argument.

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