The Forbidden Muse (Inferno Falls #2) by Aubrey Parker

Author:Aubrey Parker [Parker, Aubrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eros
Published: 2015-11-10T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 21

Gavin

I’ve wanted so badly to call her.

What’s worse is that I’m not refraining for a reason she’d understand. I don’t understand, it. In the short term, my calling would be good for us both. Nobody would lose. I don’t know about Abigail, but I would have been ready to go out the next night again, if she didn’t need to work. Our conversation, the times neither one of us has gone into an exchange with baggage, has been light and natural. I haven’t felt so at ease with anyone since … well, I don’t really want to make that particular comparison, even in my mind.

But if we went out again, we’d both know what it really was. We’d both know that the second date would be a vehicle taking us to the end. And then Wednesday’s scene would repeat: me on her stoop or her on mine, in a light embrace, a kiss in the air. We’d move together, but this time we wouldn’t stop. I’d go inside when she asked because I wouldn’t be able to summon the intense will required to walk away the first time. Or I’d invite her inside my place, and it would all be over because this part of the script is one we both know and expect.

Clothes would hit the floor. I’d run my hands all over her bare body, exploring what I want so badly to see and feel and taste and smell. I’ve pictured it a hundred times since, trying and not trying at the same time to see the way she’d move beneath me, above me, beside me. Seeing the curves of her hips and the swell of her breasts. Wondering whether the beautiful freckles I’ve decided she works hard to cover up spill onto the milky expanse of what her dress, on that night, had hidden from me.

I didn’t embrace her because I was afraid I’d never be able to break it. I was worried the kiss would deepen. Hands would explore, even out there in the open. I’d have kissed her neck the way I longed to, nibbling my way to her collarbone, back up to her ears. I don’t think she was wearing a bra, because her breasts are small enough not to require one. I was afraid, if I wrapped my arms around her, that I’d find out.

As many women as I’ve been with since Grace, I don’t want to be with Abigail. Or rather, I desperately do. But once it’s done, it will be done. And I know how that story goes, because I’ve written it so many times.

Wake in the morning. Fascination is gone. Conquest achieved. I’m no longer interested, and neither is she. So we part. And that’s how it ends.

Or something worse could happen. As different as Abigail feels, part of me is terrified that the typical script won’t repeat at all. We’ll wake the next morning, and I won’t want her gone. Instead, my eyes will peel open with the sun, and I’ll want to watch her face as she sleeps.

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