Tamsin by Abigail Strom

Author:Abigail Strom [Strom, Abigail]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-09T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Tamsin

Daniel’s shirt is warm, making me feel like I’m walking in a cocoon of kindness and chivalry.

And it’s sexy as hell in here.

I’m so sure Daniel will break his no-kissing, no-fooling-around rule that I surreptitiously send Rikki the one-word text we agreed on in case I wanted the room to myself tonight.

Jackpot.

She sends me a thumbs-up emoji, meaning she’ll spend the night with Sam.

Daniel and I hold hands all the way back to Bracton, and the body heat he gives off bodes well for the night to come.

He’s hot-blooded, is what I’m saying. Insert suggestive eyebrow-wiggling here.

The drizzle turns into a steady shower by the time we get back to the dorm, and our water-logged state makes my invitation even easier.

“You’re coming in, right?” I say, after we climb the stairs and stop outside my door. “You can dry off and hang out while you wait for the rain to stop.”

I’ve never been more confident of getting a Hell, yes in response to a proposition. Daniel and I are facing each other, and with his hair wet and his T-shirt damp and a drop of rain sliding down his cheek, all I can think about is getting him inside and out of his clothes.

“That’s okay,” he says. “I don’t mind the rain.”

I blink, almost convinced I heard him wrong.

“What?”

He reaches out and plucks the daisy from my hair.

“I’m going to take this with me,” he says. “Not that I’ll need any help thinking about you on my way home.”

That’s pretty romantic. But at the same time, the bottom line is that he’s not coming in.

I don’t know what to say. I’ve never felt so rejected and not-rejected at the exact same time.

“We’ve got an away game next week,” he continues. “So how is two weeks from tonight for our next date?”

He can wait two weeks to see me again? And he’s not even going to kiss me goodnight?

The scales are tipping from not-rejected to rejected.

“Okay,” I say. My voice sounds small, and I hate that. I hate how I’m feeling right now.

“Goodnight, Tamsin. I had an amazing time, and I can’t wait to do it again.”

“Goodnight, Daniel.”

And that’s that.

I stand there staring after him as he walks down the hall and disappears into the stairwell. Then I go into my room and over to the window. It overlooks the main entrance of the building, and I wait for Daniel to come out the front door.

It was a perfect night. The best date I’ve ever had.

Well, the only date I’ve ever had. I went to boarding school, where dating consists of finding places on school grounds to have sex. And Oscar, as Daniel himself pointed out, was never the romantic date night type.

Daniel had a good time too. I’m sure he did. I didn’t just imagine those moments of connection—or those moments of lust. But how could he walk away without so much as a kiss?

I lean against the window glass. “O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?” I murmur.

That’s Romeo’s line, of course, from the famous balcony scene.

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