Harlequin Romance December 2020 Box Set by Susan Meier

Author:Susan Meier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

‘IN FACT, I was thinking, maybe we could still get together, now and then, if you wanted. Just casually, of course.’ Damon was talking for the sake of talking and he knew it. But if he stopped, he knew Rachel was going to ask him for something he didn’t know how to give. So he just kept going. ‘It seems a shame to give up such great chemistry completely, right?’

Please, let it be enough. It’s all I know how to give you. Please.

He just needed time. He wasn’t an idiot. He’d known long before Celeste brought it to his attention that he was in over his head here. That what he felt for Rachel wasn’t like anything he’d felt before. That was why it was so terrifying.

Hell, he’d known nine years ago that if he got too close to this woman he’d fall. At eighteen he’d been smart enough to run the other way.

Apparently, growing up had made him stupid.

He needed time to figure out what it meant. How it fitted in with who he was. How he could still be him, when he felt this way about her.

‘I think a spring fling has a nice sound to it anyway, don’t you?’ He flashed his best, most charming smile, and hoped.

But Rachel wasn’t smiling. He knew that, even in the pitch dark of the winter night, with only faint lights from the windows, the moon and the street lights behind them to help him figure it out.

He stopped talking. People had been talking over Rachel, talking for her, for too many years already. He might be a complete arse but he wasn’t going to be another of those people.

However hard it was, he needed to listen to what she had to say.

‘Damon. That’s what I came here tonight to tell you. I don’t want a fling, festive, spring or otherwise, with you.’ She paused, taking a breath, and Damon resisted the urge to interrupt her. Just. ‘I’m in love with you. I know that wasn’t the deal we made, and it definitely wasn’t what I planned but… I knew it was a risk. I’ve, well, had a crush on you basically the whole time I’ve known you. I knew I should stay away to protect my own heart, I knew that you didn’t do commitment, that you weren’t offering anything beyond this Christmas. But the way I feel when I’m with you… Damon, you make me feel like I can do anything, and I want more of that feeling.’

‘You can do anything,’ he told her, because it might be his last chance. ‘You’re amazing.’

‘That’s what made me believe I could do this.’ She met his gaze with her own, and even in the half-light he could see the steely determination in it. ‘You taught me to ask for what I wanted. So I’m asking. I want you, Damon. Not for a fling, or for a season. Forever. I want you to love me the way I love you. I want us to be together.

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