Living at 40 (Lakeside Cottage Book 1) by L.B. Dunbar

Author:L.B. Dunbar [Dunbar, L.B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: L.B. Dunbar Writes, Ltd.
Published: 2021-06-02T23:00:00+00:00

18

[Logan]

For the first time since we started this crazy venture, I don’t follow Autumn into her room but kiss her in the hallway outside her bedroom door before holding it open for only her. Her expression is puzzled. Her eyes seek mine with one question, but I simply shake my head, offering a weak smile. The beginning of the end is coming, and I need to pull myself away from her. Something happened while we were making out. Something inside me broke while my fingers stroked inside her.

I felt myself slipping, falling, drowning in love with her and the desire to keep her. But that wasn’t what she wanted from me. I’d never measure up, and while I teased her with my ridiculous secrets about men, I wasn’t kidding.

We were simple creatures, and all we really wanted was to be loved. We wanted to be the center of another person’s world, but Autumn didn’t want to orbit me. She wanted a baby. That little, beautiful human being we hopefully created would be her sun. A baby was what she wanted to feed her need to nurture without all the craziness of a man taking from her.

The others were all fools.

I was an idiot.

Closing the door to my own bedroom, I fall onto the bed, heart heavy and head muddled from the wine, the taste of her on my tongue, and the scent of her on my fingers. She surrounded me in all the places it would hurt most, and I would take the punishment as it was the first time in years my heart thumped this hard. Making out with her was almost worse than making love to her. The patience to go slow. The desire to speed up. The contradiction was the thrill, just as it was with any woman—the contradictory sex—frustrating and fascinating. Despite all the confusing thoughts circling my head, though, I only wanted to think of her because too soon, thoughts were all I’d have.

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