Before This Ends by Aurora Rose Reynolds

Author:Aurora Rose Reynolds [Reynolds, Aurora Rose]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

emma

Sitting in the Italian restaurant across from the salon a week later I nibble on my lip when Miranda’s eyes widen. “You’re kidding me,” she whisper-hisses across the table, holding her glass of wine to the side so she can lean closer to me.

“I’m not.” I sit back against my seat and shrug.

“You encouraged me to sleep with Tucker on our first date, and you’re telling me that you and Miles have been spending practically every day together for the last week, not counting the time before then and you still haven’t slept with him?”

“We’re taking things slow.” I take a sip of wine. The reality is that, even without sex, things don’t feel slow at all. Since our not-date date, I’ve spent almost every evening with Winter and him, the three of us falling into the same routine we had when everyone was out of town and I was helping him out. Only I don’t always pick Winter up from school unless I get off work early, and I don’t normally go home until well after Winter has gone to bed.

And normally, by the time I do leave their place, I’ve had at least one, sometimes two orgasms. Those given to me freely without Miles wanting anything in return.

Not that he doesn’t talk about how he can’t wait to be inside me or say other very dirty things while he gets me off. He just hasn’t pushed me to sleep with him, which might be the biggest turn-on ever.

“Apparently.” She shakes her head.

“I just…. I want to make sure we are in a solid place before we take that step, and—” I cut myself off.

“And what?”

“I like him.” God, that is a total understatement. “I care about him and Winter both, so I don’t want to jump into things too fast, then have no way of salvaging the easy friendship we’ve always had if this goes bad.”

“So, basically, you’re trying to stop yourself from falling for him, because you don’t think it will work out between you two.”

“I didn’t say that.”

“You kinda did.”

I totally did, and she’s right. I’m scared to death of falling for him too fast, because he’s the man you wish on a star for after you break up with some jerk who cheated, called you names, or just broke your heart. He’s checked boxes I didn’t even know I had. He’s kind, honest, sweet, protective, and so fricking hot that just looking at him causes my body to react. And I like being with him. He makes me laugh, he makes me happy, and I don’t know how I will handle it if he decides that he doesn’t feel the same as me.

“What would you tell me if our roles were reversed?”

“M,” I groan.

“Seriously, Emma, you deserve a guy who makes you a priority, doesn’t play games, and pursues you. I know Eli messed you up, because you were so sure about him being the person you would spend your life with. And yeah, you were wrong about him, but that doesn’t mean you can’t trust your gut this time.

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