Close Enough to Touch (31 page)

His hand stayed on her hip. “Me, too.” He waited one heartbeat,
then two, giving her a chance to invite him in.

She couldn’t do it. Not tonight, with the thought of Jamie so
close at hand. There was no doubt how it would turn out. She’d be thinking the
whole time, comparing him to Jamie, comparing herself to who she’d been that
night six months ago.

She had to find that again, but it wasn’t going to happen
tonight. Not with Davis. “Thanks,” she said again.

His hand finally slid away and Davis stepped back, looking only
slightly disappointed. “I’ll call you. Maybe we’ll dare more next time.
Dinner?”

“Maybe,” she said coyly, offering a quick kiss on his cheek
before she escaped into her apartment.

Beth set her purse on the table, then hung up her coat in the
hall closet. Her apartment was so quiet and so palpably solitary, that she was
already regretting sending Davis away as she walked to the kitchen to pour a
glass of wine. She’d lied to him about that. One glass of beer hadn’t been
enough. She should have had three, and then maybe she would have been brave
enough to let him in. She could’ve tried to lose herself. It wasn’t
impossible.

It was in her somewhere, and it couldn’t just be about one man.
Beth wouldn’t let it be.

ISBN: 9781459237858

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