More Than Friends: A Friends to Lovers Romance Collection by Blanchard Nicole

Author:Blanchard, Nicole
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evening Star Press
Published: 2024-11-05T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

DASH

One of us was a virgin, and it wasn’t me. As I led her down the hallway to my room, I sure as hell felt as nervous as one.

My bed was unmade from that morning. I had clothes strewn all over the floor. If I’d known she’d see it, I would have straightened up my room before inviting her over. I’d planned on warning her, explaining why the two of us were a bad idea, not inviting her to bed.

She deserved so much better than me.

Layla turned and sat on the edge of my bed, not seeming to notice the surrounding mess at all, despite my worries. She only had eyes for me.

Overcome, I stepped forward between her legs and brought her lips up to mine. She was sweet, so sweet. Once I tasted my fill, I said, “You are so beautiful.” The words were more serious than I intended. I meant to seduce her, to charm her, but she charmed me.

“I think I remember you saying I looked like a boy in his sister’s dress once,” she said with a laugh that crinkled the corners of her eyes. Unable to resist, I kissed her there, too. On my gravestone it would say, ‘Here lies Dashiel Hampton. He could not resist her.’

“That’s only because you’d beaten me at the chess tournament and I was bitter. I got distracted that day because that dress was see-through. I couldn’t stop looking at you.”

She slapped at my chest. “It was not!”

I nipped at her lips again and inched her backward. “Okay, maybe it wasn’t, but I was staring so hard because I hoped it would be.”

She stretched out on my bed, as languid and relaxed as a feline, and I crawled in next to her. “If you hadn’t been such a dick all this time, maybe this would have happened before.”

“No, I’m glad it didn’t. I wouldn’t have appreciated you then.”

“And you appreciate me now?” she asked, her blue eyes twinkling up at me.

Tucking her hair behind her ear, I said, “Why don’t I show you?”

Her pupils dilated, and she licked her lips. “Why don’t you?”

I meant to go slow, draw it out and make it good for her the way she deserved, but the girl underneath me had zero patience. The girl who’d been so cautious in every other aspect of her life was a woman with no chill in bed. Her hips bucked underneath me and her kiss had an edge of hunger that enticed me to satiate.

Taking her hands, I grinned. “Don’t rush me, Ms. Tate.”

She threw her head back. “I’m not rushing you,” she said. Then, she wrapped her arms around me, tightening her legs around my hips. “You’re just going very slow.”

I was lost to her. A better man would have told her this wasn’t the perfect moment. Then again, a better man wouldn’t have pursued her in the first place, wouldn’t have driven her to madness, wouldn’t have bullied and teased her. A better man would deserve her, but there was no way in hell I’d give anyone else the chance to try.

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