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But he wasn’t mine. None of this was real.
I didn’t know what was happening to me. Hearing about Carl in the closet at the hospital with his girlfriend had stung. Angered me even. Because for all those years, I’d tried to get us to have a little more fun, and he’d shut me down, and then he’d experienced them with someone else.
But it wasn’t Carl I was thinking about when I closed my eyes at night.
Was I a glutton for punishment?
Fantasizing about my best friend. Knowing that it could never go anywhere.
When I came out of the bathroom, he was unbuttoning his dress shirt, and he turned to look at me, his abs and chest on full display.
Golden and sun-kissed and so freaking sexy.
I stood there gaping before pulling myself out of my daze and walking toward the bed. I did a dramatic stretch with my arms and yawned.
“I’m exhausted. I think I’m going to get some sleep.”
“Yeah, me, too.” He pushed his shirt off his shoulders and tossed it on the chair in the corner before tugging off his dress pants.
I couldn’t keep my gaze from watching as he walked toward the bathroom wearing nothing but his black boxer briefs.
I mean, it would be abnormal for me not to notice.
Inhuman, even.
The man could actually pose for an underwear ad, so how could I not look?
I heard him chuckle as he disappeared into the bathroom and the sink turned on and off. I climbed into bed and pulled the covers over me.
You’re just lonely. It’s been so long since anyone has touched you. This is perfectly normal to feel these things. It doesn’t mean anything.
I could feel him moving through the bedroom, and I heard the click of the lights turning off. The room was dark, and I squeezed my eyes closed because I was fighting the urge to act on my desire.
Something we’d always agreed we’d never do.
The weight of his body had the bed moving as he slid in beside me. His warm breath tickled my cheek from his nearness. He radiated warmth, and I wanted to wrap myself around him.
“You fake sleeping, Miney?” His voice was deep and low, and there was humor there.
“Well, we’re fake dating, so it only seems natural.” I chuckled.
His thumbs moved to my eyelids, and he forced them open, which made me laugh harder.
“Why are you hiding?”
“I’m not hiding,” I whispered. The light from the moon coming through the windows overlooking the city created a halo around his handsome face.
God, he was a beautiful man.
It was only right that he would never settle down. It wouldn’t be fair if only one woman got to enjoy this man for the rest of her life.
I was lucky enough to be the woman he called his best friend. So, in a way, Finn did belong to me. But not entirely. He’d never fully give himself to anyone.
He knew he’d tire of them, and he would never want to disappoint anyone. That was the kind of man he was.
“Tell me what’s going on. Why were you jealous tonight?”
“I don’t know, Chewy. I guess the lines are blurring a bit for me.” My tongue swiped out to lick my lips, as my mouth was dry because having him so close to me was torture. “Not in the way you’re thinking, so don’t panic. I know what we are. I guess I just felt possessive because we’re putting on a show and all.”
