The Dare: A Forbidden Romance by Natalie Wrye

Author:Natalie Wrye [Wrye, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 14

CHRIS

There are only a few hours until the rehearsal dinner. And I can’t seem to remove myself from Ros’s hotel room bed.

I have to say: I knew it would happen...but being with Rosalyn changes everything.

My entire worldview.

I feel...different.

I’m not talking about the usual sensational rush. Not even the primal urgings that set my instincts on high. But something deeper, harder, more visceral.

My primal urge has been knocked off balance by the new complexities in the evolving creature before me.

In Rosalyn.

The woman she is, inside and out. The layers she keeps me guessing about.

I was wrong. I know now that I was.

She isn’t the same person I used to know. The one I used to...want.

This is a world beyond want. Beyond need.

I breathe her in. Part of me wants her so badly it hurts, but I want this...thing with us, with her, to last.

How long, I do not know.

But I want to know her.

I want to understand her. I want to know everything. What she did. What she’s thinking. I want to know about her life. Her past. Her hopes, her fears, everything.

What I feel for her is stronger than I’ve ever felt before for a woman.

Stronger than I’ve let myself feel for a woman.

I know that now.

And that’s the problem.

I’m afraid of the intensity of what I feel for her, and what is only now surfacing.

She’s not the only woman who’s kept me at arm’s length—run away from me. She wasn’t the first. My mother has dibs on that claim.

And I don’t know if Ros will be the last. But I do know I can’t let her out of my sight.

Not yet.

Not until the truth comes out.

Not until the real Rosalyn arrives.

Besides, I am not one to let go of something I want.

I want her.

And I believe she wants me.

But there’s no addressing all of that right now.

Because right now, we both have a rehearsal to get to.

I lift off Rosalyn’s cool hotel sheets, staring down at her in amazement as I stand to my feet. Leaving is so much harder than I thought it would be.

She grins as I adjust her skirt. I grin back as I put my shirt back on.

“Are you okay?” I ask, my voice softer under the blowing of the heavy air conditioner. The room feels colder than it did just seconds before.

Ros props herself up on her elbow, looking at me with the beauty of an angel.

“I’m going to charge you for every time you ask me that,” she responds, a twinkle in her honeyed hazel eyes. “But if you want me to answer honestly... well, right now? I feel like I can fly,” is all she says, making my heart jump out of my chest.

I walk to the bedside table, scratching my head for a moment, and then pull out my phone.

“What are you doing?” she asks.

“I have something to help you feel even more like you can fly. Something to help make you feel better. And better. And...” I interrupt her, laughing.

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