Ginny
stood a bit on her now bare tiptoes and rested her chin on his shoulder. Tommy
turned his head to kiss her temple, his lips lingering and then moving
whisper-soft towards her ear. She struggled to hold back the shudder of
pleasure, selfishly enjoying the intimacy and romantic thrill of the moment.
“Thank
you,” Tommy said softly.
“For
what?” Ginny asked.
“For
being my Ginny.”
She
didn’t think about her resolution to not make any moves, she wasn’t thinking
about anything but their complicated friendship and her own frustrated feelings
as she pulled her hands free, moved to the side and then in front of him. She
placed her hands on his upper arms and his hands moved to her hips. She looked
him straight in the eyes and ignored the returning twinge of sympathy she felt
at the obvious fatigue on his features and the thrill she felt from the look of
sexual longing in his eyes.
“Tommy,
you have to stop this. It’s killing me. You’re giving me mixed messages,” Ginny
began, trying desperately to use her professional ‘put him in his place’ tone
but it came out a bit plaintive for her tastes. He winced and closed his eyes.
“I
know. I’m sorry,” Tommy said then opened his eyes again. “It’s just… you mean
something to me, Gin, and I’m afraid if we take it to the next level – have sex
– it will mess it up, our friendship. If it was anybody else, I’d take that
chance, but you, you’re different than the rest. In just six months you’ve
become… Hell, I can’t explain it.”
He
let out a harsh breath and she expected him to remove his hands from her hips
to run them through his hair but instead he only gripped them tighter. She
floundered in confusion. Ginny wasn’t one to mince words, in fact she was often
accused of using too many, but she had never been able to express herself
properly around Tommy. She struggled with a thousand different tactics and
persuasive arguments until her mind just seemed to jam from all the different
permutations. Kryptonite,
indeed.
Genevieve Dewey Author Bio
Genevieve Dewey is the author of The Downey Trilogy (First, I Love You & Second of All) and the short stories Bird Day Battalion & V-Day Aversion. She is a wife, mother, sister, friend and Anthropologist. She was raised mostly in Nebraska, partly in Arizona. She has a Master’s in Anthropology and worked as an Applied Anthropologist for years (even ran her own research company for a while) before deciding to be a stay at home mom. She loves passionate (rational) debates, reading, and libraries… oh, and Chicago and high-heels and chocolate and target practice and gangster flicks and anything with the FBI in it and run-on sentences. She lives in Nebraska with her three brilliantly diabolical children and one incredibly funny husband.
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