Want You More by Nicole Helm

Author:Nicole Helm [Helm, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2017-10-06T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

It turned out being platonic friends with someone who you were also attracted to, and had kissed once and therefore knew what it was like to kiss them, was hard.

Will hadn’t expected that. He’d been down this road before. It wasn’t like he hadn’t realized Tori was a woman back in the day. But he hadn’t known what she’d tasted like. Or what it was like to have her look up at him with a mixture of fear and nervousness in her eyes.

Tori had always been a force. Confident and sure as she blazed through everything and he’d known underneath all of that were some insecurities and some uncertainty. He’d also known she’d never deign to show it.

He supposed that was one of the things he’d liked about her. She never made him feel bad. She never made him feel uncomfortable. She never expected too much, and she never pushed. Not until that night.

Wasn’t that why it had been such a shock? That she’d never done anything like that before. Never asked anything of him. Then she’d shoved it all at him like he was supposed to know what to do with it. Love and care.

Now they were here in this place, and she wasn’t asking a damn thing of him. But he wanted . . .

He wanted. It was getting harder and harder to ignore.

Weeks in each other’s company and working together had solidified a certain foundation. Here they were. Friends again. Comfortable with each other. Well, a kind of comfortable. There was still something that lurked in the shadows, that buzzed underneath the interaction, but it didn’t bubble over.

Every time he looked at her, he thought about that kiss from weeks ago now. Thought about what it would be like without the anger fueling it. Thought about what it would be like . . .

He pushed the thought out of his head and focused on what was in front of him. One of the last kayaking trips they’d give this year since the cooler temps would start to make it too dangerous.

He’d move into taking the extra hiking and backpacking excursions that would crop up for the crowded fall season. Winter would be leaner, but he’d stay busy with more administrative tasks. Brandon was making noise about a business co-op or chamber of commerce for Gracely, to keep the businesses that existed here and bring in new ones.

Plans were being made. Plans for the future. Brandon and Lilly were getting ready for the twins. Sam and Hayley were all moved in together and though Will didn’t want to think about it too deeply, he wouldn’t be shocked if they ended up getting married eventually. It seemed like a foregone conclusion.

Time was marching on. He wasn’t getting any younger.

And he couldn’t stop thinking about having the one woman he probably shouldn’t want to have. She’d made it abundantly clear that she did not want him to want her.

“Hey.”

Speak of the devil. “Hey, what’s up?” He lined up the waterproof packs he’d carry down to the beach for the kayaking trip.

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