“No?” she breathed out. The shock on her face made my lips quirk, releasing some of the tension in my body.
“Has any guy ever said no to you, Athena?”
“Yes,” she said quietly before her chin raised and her eyes flared back to life. “You want to.”
I did. I wanted to bite that pink lip and punish her for punishing me. Torture her with kisses and fingers until she begged rather than dared.
“I do. But kissing you wouldn’t stop at kissing.”
She rolled her eyes. “That’s kind of the point here.” She waved a finger between us.
“I can’t,” I told her, my voice thick with desire and regret. “Because I can’t offer you more than a night. An amazing, sweaty, gods screaming hot night, but still only one night. And Mac would kick my ass.”
“My brother has nothing to do with this. I’m a grown woman. I know what I want, and it definitely isn’t more than one night.”
Refusing her felt like ringing the bell and walking away, and that wasn’t me. But I also knew if I accepted her challenge, I’d end up as exactly what they called me, Nash the Ass. Nasty Ass Shitty Human.
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The feel of his gentle exploration as he kissed me almost broke me. The slow and steady pull on my sleepy nerve endings was tearing my veins apart. A kiss tasting like berries and wine and picnics in the filtered sunlight between shady tree branches. A kiss that caused a burst of lust to spread through me because of its tenderness. A simple kiss with just lips and tongues joining and no hands or bodies, as if he knew how painful the experience would be for me and was trying to soften the blow.
A simple kiss that was anything but simple.
It felt so damn good it was hard to imagine stopping. It felt perfect.
Which sent a wave of ice down my back.
Perfect.
How could it be perfect?
I stepped away, regret filling me. Regret because I was being cruel, and I didn’t like to be cruel. I’d let him kiss me, knowing it could only be a kiss and nothing more. Knowing I couldn’t give him what he deserved to be given when he touched someone like that. When he kissed someone so wholeheartedly, so openly, so devotedly.
He deserved a beginning. He deserved someone giving all of themself.
And I didn’t have that to give anymore.
I’d already given it away.
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