Whatever We Are by Leigh Fleming

Author:Leigh Fleming [Fleming, Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Envisage Press, LLC
Published: 2017-10-27T16:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

Shot down again. All the blood in his body had rushed to one tender, extremely sensitive area; they’d been so close to consummating years of his fantasies. He should have known better than to get his hopes up.

Liza placed her hands on either side of his face, willing him to stop, forcing him to look at her. Her face blurred in his delirium. “I have to tell you something.”

“You don’t have to say anything.” She’d told him no once before. Why the hell would he think she’d want him now? He wasn’t sure why she kissed him the way she did if friendship was all she wanted.

“It’s important.”

He breathed heavily, struggling to catch his breath. “I know already. We’re just friends. I get it.”

“Whatever we are—”

“Just say it.” He continued to draw in deep breaths as she turned her face to the fire breaking eye contact.

“We can’t sleep together.”

“I wasn’t thinking of sleeping.” He mumbled as he pushed himself away and sat up, covering his lap with a pillow. Nothing should stand in the way of whatever she was about to say.

“I’m not—I don’t think you’ll want to—you should know—”

Finally, the glassy, love-swamped blur cleared from his vision and he looked at her. She was still staring at the fire with a fist clenched between her teeth and her other hand rubbing circles into her thigh. “What’s wrong?”

“I’ve never…I’ve never had sex.”

“Huh?” He braced his hands against the arm of the couch, caging her prone body beneath him. “You’re a virgin?”

“Yes.” Her cheeks were as red as the fire’s flames.

“How’s that possible?”

“Well, I never—”

“I get that, but you’ve dated. How the hell did they keep their hands off you?”

She smiled at the compliment and finally looked at him. She lifted herself into a sitting position and pulled the pillow from behind her back, gripping it in her hands.

“I just always thought I would wait until marriage. Or at least until I met someone I wanted to do it with.”

“That’s admirable.” Settling back into the cushions, he ran his hand through his hair and stretched out his legs, returning the pillow to his lap.

“You’re mad.”

“I’m not mad,” he snapped, but then muttered, “Just turning blue.”

“Oh, God, so it’s true.”

“What’s true?”

“The rumors. What they said about me in high school. I didn’t mean to be a tease.”

“You’re not a tease.” Try telling that to my little friend hiding under the pillow. Seriously, one thing for sure about Liza, she was honest, outspoken and never played games. He didn’t know why she kissed him the way she did, but she wasn’t intentionally trying to torment him.

“That’s what people always said about in me in high school. Maybe it’s true. Maybe I’m frigid.”

Tucker burst out laughing and gathered her worried face in his hands. “Is that what they said?”

“That was my word. No passion. What I remember them saying was I wouldn’t put out.”

While still laughing, he leaned in and pressed his lips to hers. “Baby, I’m glad you didn’t put out. Trust me you’ve got way too much passion to call yourself frigid.

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