Love Me (The Donovan Family Book 1) by Watson Margaret

Author:Watson, Margaret [Watson, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Margaret Watson
Published: 2014-01-24T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

He couldn't love her. That wasn't part of the deal. She knew what he wanted in his life, and she wasn't it. Couldn't be it.

But her heart swelled with longing. Need. Grew and grew until she thought it would burst out of her.

"I love the way we are together, too," she finally said, although it felt like a betrayal. She knew what he'd meant. She wanted to have the right to say it back to him.

She couldn't, though. She couldn't give him what he wanted. What he deserved.

So she cupped his face in her palms and kissed him once more, memorizing his taste. The tiny noise he made in the back of his throat. The way his hands gripped her, as if he couldn't bear to think of losing her.

"You were right," she whispered as she tugged on his earlobe with her teeth. "Makeup sex is amazing."

"Want to try it again?" He nuzzled her neck, pressing his mouth against the sensitive skin beneath her ear.

"Nah," she said, her muscles relaxing. This banter was safe. The sexy teasing didn't step over the line and make her want to give him things she couldn't deliver. "We'd have to have another fight, and I'd rather try that pizza you brought over. I'm starving."

"Okay," he said, sitting up and dragging her with him. "But I'll be figuring out our next fight."

"We don't have to use a fight as an excuse." She let her fingers linger on his chest a moment too long. "What's between us will be incredible even without a fight."

"Oh, yeah," he said, scooting up in bed and drawing her with him. "I like that. We'll do a series of controlled experiments. The scientific method. Test out your hypothesis."

"Since when are you a scientist?"

"Starting now. I'm studying you."

She rolled her eyes. "Cheesy, Evans. Is that the best you can do?"

His eyes darkened and he reached for her. "Let me show you the best I can do."

She squirmed away from him and slipped out of bed. "Food first." She grinned as she grabbed her shorts and camisole from the floor and pulled them back on. "Or you risk the Brody hangries."

"Hangries?" He tossed the covers to the foot of the bed and stepped into his jeans. "What's that?"

"A condition where lack of food leads to sudden outbursts of irrational anger. Viciousness. Whining."

"Sounds very ugly. Let's get some of that pizza into you before we have an outbreak."

The pizza was cold, so she put it in the oven. Jamie opened cabinets and drawers until he found plates and silverware, then set the table. When he spotted her watching him, his hands stilled. "Hope you don't mind," he said. "Trying to head off those hangries."

"Of course I don't mind. You want a beer?"

"I'd love one."

She pulled two bottles of Blue Moon out of the refrigerator and opened them, then slid into the other chair at her kitchen table. They sat in a comfortable silence, sipping their beers and taking turns sneaking looks at each other.

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