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I nod, feeling my heart break in two. “Then this is goodbye?” Something tells me I’ll never see Eric against after this. He’s not just walking away from his job or my father’s company. He’s walking away from me.
He steps forward and brushes his lips gently across my forehead.
When he moves to step around me, I put a hand on his arm, catching the material of his suitcoat. “If you’re leaving, we should sleep together.”
“Atlas—”
I say the words out that I’ve been scared to admit. “I want you to be my first.”
He swallows hard. “You deserve a good first time. Not a sad one.”
I tighten my hold. “I’ve wanted you since Mexico. Don’t make me lose it to some stranger in a seedy dive bar bathroom.”
He closes his eyes. “You can’t say shit like that to me.”
I can push him over the edge, make him crumble and do this. “He probably won’t even make it good. Not the way you would.”
When he opens his eyes, I can see the control that’s snapped. “Give me five minutes. I’ll get us a room.”
* * *
Eric
You’re a selfish bastard.
I meant to challenge her, so she would back down. But then I tasted her and now I can’t walk away. The thought of getting to be with Atlas is too tempting.
Instead, I get the VIP room by calling in a favor with the hotel manager. Then I text Atlas to let her know which room we’re in.
Her knock at the door is soft and light.
“It’s me,” she calls. Her voice is so quiet that it makes me smile. Her innocence and shyness only make me more aroused.
When I let her into the room, she stands in the center of it for a long moment. She’s looking around, taking it all in.
She clutches her backpack tighter, the one that’s filled with her clothes from earlier tonight when she wasn’t pretending to be Miss Karma. She glances over her shoulder to make sure we’re alone.
Then she asks in a quiet voice. “Do we have condoms? They sell some down at the gift shop, but I didn’t know what kind or well, anything.”
“We have condoms,” I reassure her. “I’m clean and I wouldn’t do anything that would jeopardize your health.”
I take the backpack from her and set it in the floor. Then I pull her into my arms and hug her. It’s something I’ve never done with the women I’ve slept with. But it seems like Atlas needs comfort and hell if I don’t want to be the man that provides it.
She relaxes against me. “Thanks for being cool about this.” Her words are muffled by my dress shirt.
I rub her back in a soothing circle. “We don’t have to do this tonight. We could stream a movie instead.”
She runs her fingernails down my dress shirt. “You’re not getting out of this that easily.”
I chuckle and move my hands from her back, letting them drift along the curve of her ass. I squeeze lightly and groan. “One day, I want to spank this ass.”
She leans back and searches my face, but I don’t miss the interest in her gaze or the way her breathing hitched as soon as I mentioned the word spank.
“You’d like that, wouldn’t you?” Fuck if she’s not perfect for me. There are a hundred things I want to do to her, a million ways I long to explore her. One night won’t be enough for all of it.
She nods only for a sad smile to cross her face. “One day.”
Since I don’t want her thinking about that, I drop my head and kiss her roughly. “Turn around,” I command when I finally part from her lips long enough to give both of us time to breathe.
