All I Am by Nicole Helm

Author:Nicole Helm
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

IT’S GOING TO be fine. Wes let Cara’s words echo in his head. The way she said them so solemnly, and suddenly he felt a certain kind of pressure to make it so. It wasn’t a bad pressure. No, it felt more like determination.

The determination didn’t flag through that kiss, or the next one, but when she pulled away, smiling and leading him into his bedroom, some of it deflated a little bit. The reality of the situation.

What if history repeated itself? Any of the histories? Getting too excited. Panicking. What if it was all too much no matter how determined they were?

Cara pulled off her shirt and let it drop to the ground, which was enough to silence the circus in his mind for a second. Her bra was something lacy and pink, like the one he’d caught a glimpse of that day she’d crossed her arms and unknowingly pulled her top down too far.

Even in the dim light of his room with sun-blocking curtains, her pale skin seemed to glow, each freckle a punctuation point to some dip or curve. She looked impossibly soft, and it was only fear that kept him from reaching out and touching her.

You will not be afraid. You are going to do this. She wants to do this, and so do you. He just had to get out of his own head. Somehow. The kissing helped. Maybe he should initiate it this time.

She pointed to his chest. “Your turn.”

He gave an idiotic nod and then pulled the shirt off himself, letting it fall next to hers. Jeez. This was getting...real.

She kept smiling, her eyes staying on his as she unbuttoned her jeans, and then he had no idea where she was looking because he was watching her unzip and push her jeans down over her hips. And then she was standing in front of him, in nothing but her underwear.

She nodded toward his waistband. Right. Follow her lead. He could do that. He’d been a soldier for years. He could definitely follow a lead. With less-than-steady fingers, he unfastened his pants and awkwardly stepped out of them.

Standing across from each other in their underwear. He couldn’t decide what would quell the raucous anxiety spiraling in his gut.

“You’re beautiful,” he forced himself to say, because at the very least he should offer her a compliment. A truth. Before all the insanity inevitably started pouring out of his mouth.

Her lips curved, and she crossed the room to him. “And you—” she placed her palms low on his abdomen and pushed them all the way up and over his shoulders “—are a work of art.”

“Way to put my compliment to shame.”

“Hush,” she murmured, before touching her mouth to his, her body to his. It was a jolt, her soft skin against his, the warmth of her, the ease of her.

She had a way that made everything not easy but easier, and for a man like him, easier was everything. It was...possibility. This might actually be possible.

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