Preston smiled, then reached down to lace our fingers together. He looked at our hands, then back up to me. “I’ve been told I can be very blunt and come on strong.”
I smiled sardonically. “No. You? Blunt?”
He raised his brows and tilted his head. “Yeah, I don’t know what they’re talking about, but whatever. My point is that I realize this is a lot to throw at you this late, but just trust me, okay? I wasn’t feeding you a line about how attracted I am to you. I was being completely honest with you.”
He gently squeezed my hand, and I tightened my hold on him. I still had one question lingering in my mind, and I needed to know if he’d be honest about it.
“Alright. But answer one thing for me.”
“Sure. What is it?”
Preston looked at me expectantly. “Are you dating the woman from the party?”
Preston smiled and started laughing. “Uh, no. That was Eliana. She’s Alejandro’s ex-wife. She’s like a sister to me.”
Relief poured over me, and it must have shown on my face.
“I’m not a cheater, Nick, and I should have told you who she was a long time ago. You’re the only person I’ve been attracted to in a long time.”
I smiled and nodded. “Yeah, I’m kinda attracted to you, too.”
He grinned at me. “I already knew that.”
I rolled my eyes, and he chuckled. “Let’s go. My car is parked out back.”
“Do you always get your way?” I asked.
“Every time it matters.”
CHAPTER8
PRESTON
It was a fuckingrelief to know we were on the same page. Insecurity was a new feeling for me, and I have to admit I didn’t like it. But what I did like was kissing.
Once the door had closed behind us, I turned and caged Nick up against it, my body blanketing his.
My hands went to his face, and Nick leaned into my touch as I skated them through his soft hair to cup his cheeks. His arms wound their way around me to pull me closer.
“I don’t know how much longer I can restrain myself from kissing you.”
“Then don’t,” he whispered, inching closer.
When our lips met for the first time, the slow sensual glide of our tongues, tasting and devouring each other, became our world as everything else fell away. We could have been in the middle of the street and we wouldn’t have cared.
Releasing a year’s worth of sexual tension made me yearn for more, but I pulled back and placed an adoring kiss on his forehead and on each cheek. I never wanted to take my hands off him.
“Now I really wish I hadn’t waited so long to do that.”
“I didn’t tell you to stop.”
I laughed and looked at him. “What if I can’t stop?”
“I hope you don’t.”
One kiss wasn’t enough when I’d waited so long. I leaned back in with a sensual swipe of my tongue over his lips before diving in for another kiss to explore his beautiful mouth, beginning the journey to learn what he liked and what turned him on. Nick’s moans and whimpers were a road map to pleasuring him.
Breaking the kiss, I laid my forehead against his and swiped my thumbs along his stubble. “For the record, I knew I was right.”
