Luscious by Schroeder Melissa

Author:Schroeder, Melissa
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-939734-87-7
Publisher: Harmless Publishing
Published: 2019-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Dinner is an easy time. Granted, I had been a little worried about how our friends would take the new development. My parents, there had never been a worry. They’ve never meddled in our dating lives. Of course, my mother kept smiling at me, as if I had won her approval in some weird way. As I said, my folks love EJ, and there is a chance if I fuck this up, they will toss me over and keep EJ.

After we’re all sent away with leftovers—my mother always makes enough food for about thirty people when we come over—EJ and I drive back to her place.

“Did you have a good time today?”

She hesitates, then sighs. “Your parents know we’re dating.”

She says it as if it’s embarrassing.

“Uh, yeah. It’s hard to hide something like that. What’s the problem?” And please don’t tell me that it’s people knowing we’re together.

We sit in silence for a few minutes, then she finally says, “I just…what if things go wrong?”

I frown as I ease into a stop at a light. “Do you mean you want assurances it isn’t going to go wrong?”

She shakes her head. “No.” She looks down at her hands and my heart starts to sink. After the last couple of days, I thought we were on the same page. Yesterday had been perfect. Today, even better. And, I’ll be honest, I can’t remember the last time a woman made me feel this fantastic. Not that I’m not nervous around her. That’s still there, but damn, being with her makes my soul happy. It’s the only way to describe it.

“EJ?”

She looks up and worry etches her brow. “Not all relationships work out. And when they end, they can be toxic.”

Ah. Okay, I can deal with this. For a woman who runs a romance bookstore, EJ doesn’t really believe in happily ever after. She sees it as a fantasy, impossible in the real world. I know that, and I’ve always found it weird. I decide it is probably better that I don’t say anything about it to her.

“How about this? If we decide to break up, we do it respectfully.”

She raises one eyebrow. “Because breakups are always about respect.”

“The only reason I can see that would break us up is incompatibility.”

Her face flushes and I smile. God, she’s adorable in a way I never thought I would think of her. She’s a ballsy woman and open about her sexuality. I’ve heard her have a long discussion on why she likes explicit scenes in her romance novels. No way I could hang out for the entire discussion because her talking about sex scenes is a little much for me to take, but I like that she is open and honest about what she likes. I love that about her as much as I like the fact that I can make her blush.

“We don’t have a problem with that.”

“Indeed,” I say. The light changes and I take off. “But the other problems for breakups I don’t think will be a problem with us.

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