The Dating Proposal by Lauren Blakely

Author:Lauren Blakely [Blakely, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781732575554
Google: VPuGDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 43894305
Publisher: Little Dog Press
Published: 2019-04-28T23:00:00+00:00

19

Chris

I could say I don’t know what comes over me. But that’d be a lie. It’d be a weak-ass cop-out too. I do know what comes over me.

Desire. Lust. Want.

Sometimes it’s that simple.

We’re teasing and toying, playing at the edge of a game. But I’m a gamer, and I know sometimes you have to go for it. You jump off the cliff, you run into gunfire, you rocket-launch into the stars.

You don’t know what’s on the other side. You don’t know if you’ll make it to the next level or die a brutal, pixelated death.

You know the risks, and you do it anyway.

I’ve wanted to touch her since I met her. That’s how attraction works. I knew it in seconds that day in the store, and I’ve wanted her more and more every time we’ve connected. Every time I see her, talk to her, text her.

I can feel the heat from her body. I can smell that strawberry shampoo that drives me wild. “I’d run my hands through all this luscious hair,” I whisper.

Her breath hitches.

My skin sizzles.

Lust grabs hold of me. I thread my fingers through the silky waterfall of chestnut strands, and she’s a cat, arching her back, purring under my touch. This woman. My God, I want to be the one to show her what it’s like to be wanted.

“Don’t stop,” she murmurs.

It’s a plea, and there’s a warm buzzing sensation taking over my body. Wait. It’s way more than warm. Make that white-hot. “And if we dated,” I say as my fingertips trail down her neck and she trembles against my touch, “our first kiss would surprise both of us.”

“Why’s that?”

“Because we wouldn’t expect it to happen today . . . now,” I whisper, and her lips part. Her eyes blaze with a desire that matches my own.

“I definitely didn’t think it was going to happen now.” She grabs my face in both her hands and yanks me toward her, and I laugh, loving, absolutely loving, how much she wants this.

But I want to kiss her, not the other way around.

“Let me kiss you,” I say.

She lets go of me, huffs, grumbles, then commands, “Fine, but do it now.”

“If you insist,” I say, cupping the back of her neck.

“I insist.” She shudders, and that’s another thing about McKenna I note and file away. I put it in my drawer of Absolutely Awesome Responses to Kissing.

My lips brush hers, tasting her sweetness, and her want too. She tastes like she’s vibrating, humming with the need to get closer.

She murmurs as I sweep my lips over hers, and that sound sends a jolt of lust down my spine, making me picture all sorts of permutations of that sound and possible next steps—grabbing her hand, taking her out of here, taking her to my place, having my way with her, making her feel so damn good.

Like she deserves.

Like those idiots she’s dated so far could never make her feel.

The thought of other guys even having the chance to kiss her rouses the caveman in me.

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