My Accidental Forever (Love You Forever Book 5)
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“What kind of stuff?” he presses.
“You know… stuff. Stuff like go camping, take a hike, catch a fish. That kind of thing.”
“You’ve never gone camping?” His tone is amused but his face is shock.
“I grew up with a single mom, alright. No, she didn’t take me camping.”
“Well, that’s an easy one. What else you got?”
I shake my head. “It’s my thing. Don’t worry about it.”
The moment the last word leaves my mouth, I feel my arm—the arm that resting on top of the notebook—shift. It’s suddenly flat on the table and the notebook is now in his hands.
I jump to grab it back, but he slides his chair back across the floor out of my reach.
“Give it back,” I demand, standing up and having every intension to go chase him down to rip it out of his hands before he reads that one very embarrassing part: have an orgasm.
“Golf? I can help you with that. I used to play golf in college on scholarship. I’m really good.” he smirks. He’s holding the notebook over his head where I can’t reach it even if I jump.
I put my hands on my hips and stare him down. “No, thanks. Now, can I please have that back or are we doing this the hard way?”
I see his eyes quickly flashing down the page as he reads each line. Suddenly they freeze and I know he’s read the part I didn’t want him to see. To my surprise, he doesn’t say anything about it. Instead, he closes the book and places it in my outstretched hand.
“Seriously, let me help you.”
I frown. “Why would you want to help me?” I ask, turning back to the table. I’ve suddenly lost my appetite so I pick up my lunch and walk across the room to toss it into the trash.
“What?” he asks, brows drawing together in time for me to turn around and see his hurt/confused expression. “We’re friends, right?”
“Sure, we’re work friends. Not out of work friends.” I pick up my soda and take a sip.
“Let’s change that,” he says, lunch forgotten on the table as he stares up at me.
“Why?” I ask.
He laughs and shakes his head. “You don’t make being your friend easy, do ya?”
I want to laugh at that but I don’t. Here’s this great, super sexy guy, basically begging to be my friend and I’m so hurt and jaded that I can’t even trust that? A friendship?
I shrug. “I just don’t understand what brought this on. We’ve worked together for years and you’ve never suggested hanging out after work before.”
“True, but that’s because you’ve always been in a relationship and I didn’t want to cause any problems for you. But now you’re single and I’m single. There’s nothing stopping us. Come on. What do you say?”
“I’ll think about it,” I say, picking up my pen and walking toward the door with all of my stuff in tow.
I pull the door open but his voice causes me to stop.
“Do more than thank about it, Cora. Just… do it.”
I turn and look at him from over my shoulder and he’s wearing a determined look. His jaw is cocked, flexing and tensing. His eyes are intently starting at me, taking me in and studying me. For a moment, it feels like he can read everything about me, even the things I keep locked deep inside for nobody to see.
I can’t reply. Not with him looking at me like that. Instead, I nod once and walk out, leaving him alone in the break room.
Once work is done for the day, I pack up my things and hit the door. I’m lost in thought as I walk through the building alone and across the parking lot to my car. When I look up from grabbing my keys from my purse, I find Grayson leaning against the side of my cherry red Jetta. His arms are crossed over his big chest and his thick hair is slightly blowing in the warm breeze. The sun glints off it, accentuating his natural caramel highlights. God damn he looks like a fucking Disney prince.
I stop a few feet from him and tilt my head.
He stands up straight and takes a few steps toward me. “I seriously want to help you with your list.”
“Yeah, I got that. But I haven’t decided yet.”
“Why not? Come on, it’ll be fun! Who else is going to go golfing and camping with you?”
He does have a point. Harley isn’t exactly the outdoors type and now she’s pregnant and probably won’t be feeling very well when her morning sickness kicks in.
“Well…” I say, while he stands in front of me, smiling and nodding his head. “Okay,” I finally agree.
“Yes,” he breathes out excitedly. “This weekend, we’re hitting the golf course. You and me, baby.” His wide smile is contagious and I can’t help but to smile at how excited he is.
“Okay. Saturday it is.”
“Bright and early. We’ll have breakfast and hit the course. I’ll pick you up around six.” He tries to walk away but I quickly grab his arm.
“Six? Like in the morning?”
He nods. “Yeah, why?”
“Six? In the morning?” I say again to clarify.
He laughs. “That’s right. Hope you’re a morning person cuz’ I am,” he says around a smirk as he walks away.
Great. I am not a morning person. Hopefully he isn’t one of those super chipper, annoying, morning people. I’d hate to have to snap his head off after he’s being so nice to me.
I let my gaze linger on him for a moment, my eyes dropping down to his taught ass for a brief second before I feel a pang of guilt for checking him out when I’ve just been dumped a few weeks earlier…Why do I suddenly feel like I’m betraying Jimmy? I shake the thought from my head with a groan of disgust. I have no idea how I’m going to navigate this but I know letting myself fantasize about a man so hot he’d make a nun blush will only end in disaster.
Note to self, don’t be a creep and check out your new FRIEND.
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