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Chapter 16

How could I tell him?Liam thinking I didn’t want him was killing me. Of course I fucking wanted him. I was in love with him, but I never for one second dared to hope he would feel the same way about me. I had to think about Annie, and if she needed Liam, then it was up to me to be her father and let him go.

“Do you want me to fuck off and be with someone else, is that it?” His words were harsh and angry, and they bit into my heart and left it bleeding.

“Answer me, Rich? For fuck’s sake, I thought we had something here. Am I that easy to cast aside?”

“No!” I spat. “No, I don’t want you to fuck off with someone else, okay? I don’t think this was just some suck and fuck that can be thrown away, but I’m trying to do the right thing here Liam!”

He was pushing my buttons. He was making me confront my feelings for him and say things I wasn’t ready to say to a man who was half my age.

“What about what I want?” he spat back.

Well, fuck. That was a loaded question. “What do you want?” I asked flippantly.

He reached across the table and touched my hand. “I want you, Rich.”

I looked at him in confusion. What the hell did he mean?

“I want you,” he repeated. “I want to fight for us. I want to convince Annie that it’s okay for us to be together. I want to be with you.”

This isn’t real.

I swallowed hard and stared at him in complete disbelief.

“Why?” Really, brain? That’s your choice for right now?

Liam smirked at me. “Isn’t that obvious?”

I shook my head. Not because I didn’t know what he was going to say—I wanted to say it too—but more because there was a surreal feeling to this. Was this really going to happen? Was he going to say those words to me?

“Okay, I’ll say it. I’ll be the one to make a complete idiot of myself.” He took a deep breath and let it out slowly, psyching himself up to utter the words. “I’m in love with you, Rich.”

My heart flipped at the words I had been longing to hear from him, and I stood and walked out of the room and into the kitchen.

I could hear his mumbled curse to himself as I left. He thought I was fleeing at the news, and in part, I was, but I just needed to get up and move my feet before I put my foot in my mouth and somehow fucked it up.

I paced back and forth, trying to absorb the words he’d just said. He stood as I approached him again. Taking in the pained expression on his face, I went straight over to him, crushed my mouth against his, and cupped his face tenderly, kissing him with everything I had and pouring my emotion into him. I felt his stance soften, and his hands reached around me and touched my back.

“I love you too,” I admitted when I finally pried my lips from him. “I think I have from the very first time we made love.”

He smiled at me and laughed softly. “I felt it too, and ever since then I’ve wanted to say something but just couldn’t.”

I pulled him tighter against me and kissed him hard, grabbing his arse and encouraging him to cling to my frame, wrapping his legs around my hips. Which he did. Perfectly. With the two of us entwined, I started up the stairs for my bedroom.

The man I loved, loved me back. While this was sure to be the bumpiest relationship in history, I knew it was what we both wanted.

The future was going to be rocky, especially when our families found out. But in that moment, all I cared about was making love to my man and showing him just how much I cared about him.

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