Before the Band by Tami Lund

Author:Tami Lund
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tami Lund

CHAPTER 12

Sam

I don’t know how long we stood there, basking in the afterglow, but my calf started to cramp, so I finally stepped away, snagged the washcloth from the shower, and offered it to Holly.

She stood on shaky legs, and I couldn’t help it: a surge of smug satisfaction rocked my body. I did that to her.

Trying to bite back my grin, I gently kissed her shoulder. “Come on, let’s go find something to eat.”

We made eye contact in the mirror, and she said, “I’ll be there in a sec. Let me clean up first.”

It wasn’t awkward. It wasn’t some sort of signal for “I need a minute to collect myself.”

Don’t worry, Sam, she’s right here with you. This isn’t going away.

Fuck, I hoped it wasn’t. My head was all over the place right now. A small part of me was already berating myself for taking our relationship to this level. We were supposed to be staging a fake breakup, and instead we’d just had the most spectacular sex I’d ever had in my life, and already I wanted more. More sex, of course, but more of her.

I wanted all of her, which was stupid of me because if I’d learned anything over the course of the last ten years, it was that Holly did not give all of herself. And now that I had a little information about her childhood, I could see why. Hell, she had no clue how to love. She didn’t even love herself.

I stepped into my bedroom and pulled on a pair of gym shorts and wandered into the kitchen.

That knowledge about Holly ought to make me put on the brakes. It should have kept me from doing what we did a short while ago. Barring that, it definitely should keep me from wanting to do it again. Okay, acting on doing it again.

But when she stepped into the room, her hair piled on top of her head in a messy, multicolored bun, wearing a tank with no bra and baby blue cotton shorts that were too short to wear out in public—fuck me, there was no way in hell I was going to stop whatever was happening between us.

“Hey,” she said with a soft smile. Her makeup was more conservative than usual; I could see the physical similarities to her sister that were normally hidden behind all the blusher and heavy eyeshadow and dark lipstick.

“Hey.” I looped my arm around her back, dragging her close for a kiss that she acted like she was all too happy to let escalate, but I pulled away because between my run and our workout in the bathroom, I was starving. I needed fuel if I had any expectation of putting forth additional physical exertion.

“What are you in the mood for?” I asked, and Holly laughed.

Yeah, I’d walked right into that one.

“Food,” I clarified.

Her laugh faded into a chuckle as she opened the fridge door and stood there in that pose everyone took when they were hungry but not sure what to make and hoped the contents would magically spell out an idea.

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