Warning
"Warning: Do not confuse my desire to impress you...with a need for your approval."
- unknown
"Riley."
Oh no. Why is he here? We've managed to avoid each other for the past weeks and it had given me some time to breath and feel normal...as if! I'm such a liar! Any other woman would have loved to be in my position, being followed by Lucas, but I was dealing with dark intense looks from him that I wasn't equipped to handle. His beautiful green eyes spoke of our unfinished business.
Lucas put a hand on my arm. "I need to talk to you."
I nodded and leaned against the wall, fighting a sense of doom when Lucas joined me. "Everything okay?"
He leaned back against the wall beside me, his broad frame dwarfing mine. "It would be if you weren't avoiding me and making me wonder what our time together would have turned out like if you hadn't run away."
Heat swept over me, fast and suffocating. "Lucas..."
"Don't you wonder?" he interrupted, levering his killer body away from the wall to look at me. "Because I do. All the time."
I lifted my gaze to his seductive green one. "We would have argued and then it would have been done. And then where would we have been?"
He scowled at me, his eyes burning into mine. "Is that what you think?"
"Yeah."
He moved, bracing his palms on the wall on either side of me so quickly, I was well and truly captured. "We might have argued but I'm pretty sure that we'd made up."
I stood pressed against the wall, my heart crashing against my chest. I firmed my mouth, fighting the flicker of hope that sprang to life. "Maybe, maybe not. Lucas this is so complicated. We need space to figure things out. You need space to figure out your feelings."
"I think you underestimate my intent when it comes to you."
He stepped closer, until the heat of our bodies melded together. My breath seized in my throat. My heart accelerated even more, something I didn't think possible as he brought his amazing mouth to the shell of my ear.
"We are addressing this thing between us. I'm giving you the opportunity to consider how. Then I take control."
Lucas stepped back while I sucked in air like I'd done the hardest kickboxing DVD I owned. Then I watched him walked away.