Chapter 15

 

Confusion flooded me as I watched Logan take one more step away from me. It was a very unwelcome feeling seeing as a few seconds ago I felt anything but. Giving into Logan’s kiss was the scariest but also the most freeing thing I’d done in a very long time.

With one kiss he’d managed to make me feel wanted, and now he was retreating from me. A cold shiver ran down my spine when I realized that he could be moving away from me because he regretted that we shared the intimate moment.

“Where are you going?” I didn’t even know how I managed to croak out that sentence without sounding utterly pathetic.

Logan gave me a shrug while his lips—sinfully delicious lips—curled into a half-smile. “We still have an unfinished game in there.” He jerked his head toward Joe’s entrance. “Unless you’re ready to call it a night, I suggest we get back to it.”

What freaking game was he playing? I covered the distance between us in a few steps. With my hands on my hips, I glared at him. “Are we going to talk about what just happened?”

“Nothing else needs sayin, Sugar. I thought I made it pretty clear where I stand.” His head dipped slightly as he captured my gaze with his narrowed eyes. “Maybe you don’t quite get it and I need to show you again?”

I shook my head because I was afraid if I opened my mouth it’d be to kiss him. The smile never left his lips as he brought his hand up and ran his thumb over my bottom lip. His Adam’s apple bobbed up and down in a deep swallow before he spoke.

“Where we go from here is up to you.” His raspy voice was more hoarse. “You wanna explore this explosive chemistry between us? I’m game. But if you tell me now not to ever touch you again, I won’t.” His fingers slid into my hair and the tips pressed into my scalp. “It’ll be the hardest thing I’ll ever have to do, but you have my word that I won’t.”

It was my turn to swallow down the lump stuck in my throat. As much as I needed to be careful, something inside me had woken up and going back to the way things used to be, would be impossible.

“I don’t want to walk away,” I took a deep breath. “But I can’t put a label on this yet. It’s just-“

The rest of what I had to say disappeared when Logan pressed his lips to mine again. He didn’t kiss me slow and deep, it was just a simple kiss but it didn’t have any less of an effect on me.

“Shh,” he murmured against my lips. “We’ll go as slow as you need us to go.”

It wasn’t enough that he’d already crawled beneath my skin, now he was breaking down my walls brick by brick. The funny thing was that I wasn’t all that sad to see them crumble to the ground. I just hoped that this risk I was taking wouldn’t come back and bite me in the ass.