The Summer I First Saw You: An Age Gap, Grumpy Sunshine Romance by Elizabeth O'Roark

Author:Elizabeth O'Roark [O'Roark, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-29T00:00:00+00:00

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DAISY

I’m lying in bed, but I don’t see myself falling asleep anytime soon.

All the things he started last night still beg for completion. My nipples ache for the sting of his teeth. I picture his weight above me, his cock grazing my clit, and I buck upward against the air. That’s how real the memory is.

You just need the experience of being with someone who cares about you enough to make it worth your while but who isn’t expecting the performance of a lifetime. Someone who will take his fucking time building up to—

Building up to what? There was a clench in his jaw as he said it, a flicker of what seemed an awful lot like…frustration. As if, perhaps, he was thinking of himself and the way he’d take his fucking time building up to whatever it was.

Maybe he doesn’t care about me the way he’s supposed to, but he does care. And I bet he knows exactly what he’s doing in bed—those fingers of his moved with expert precision last night before my moral compass came in to cockblock us both. So why shouldn’t it be with him? Why shouldn’t he be the one who proves this supposed truth to me? He made it abundantly clear last night that he wants to.

I flip on a light, climb out of bed, and come to a halt at the sight of my reflection. My pajamas are as unsexy as they could possibly be—tank top, flannel bottoms. If I actually had sexy lingerie here, I’d consider putting it on, but it’s better this way. How humiliating would it be to prance in there wearing lingerie and still get rejected?

I take a deep breath, as if I’m about to jump into ice-cold water, and then I pad down the hall to his room.

“Harrison?” I tap lightly. “Are you up?”

“Yeah.” His voice is already wary. I should take that for the warning it is and turn my ass around, but instead, I open the door.

He turns on the lamp beside him as he sits, all the visible parts of him deliciously bare. I glance at the bunched-up covers, hoping for a glimpse of his lower half, while he fumbles on the nightstand for his glasses.

When he turns to me, that knot in my stomach tightens. Jesus Christ. Harrison, shirtless in those glasses, should be his own category of porn. There’s nothing he could ask of me right now that I wouldn’t agree to.

I cross the room and take a seat on the end of the bed. “I didn’t know you wore contacts.”

He raises a brow. “Is that what you came in here to discuss in the middle of the night?”

“No. I’m sorry. Did I wake you?”

He shakes his head, something miserable in the gesture. “No. I couldn’t fall asleep. So, what’s up?”

I take a deep breath, tugging nervously at the hem of my tank top. “You know how you said I just need to meet someone who knew what he was doing but also knew me?”

He freezes.

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