Free Wrong for Me (Bad Boy Romance) by Megan West, Kristen Flowers Page B

inches and turned to face him, one of
her legs draped over the other.

 
    “You know we were together since senior year.
Well, it was after five years of being together that he proposed. We had
fights, of course, but nothing major. We loved each other and that was the
direction our relationship was heading. It all made sense .” She paused and looked at Kurt before neatly placing one of
her hands over the other and resting them on her thigh. “But, I don’t know,
after some time it started to make sense that was about all there was to it.
And I wanted more out of life.”

 
    “What do you mean that was all there was to
it?”

 
    “You know, like it was what made sense so we
were doing it. We loved each other, but there was no intensity, no craving. It
sometimes didn’t feel like I was in love ,
at least not after the first year. It just felt like we got used to each other,
cared for one another, had really good sex… It was like two really close
friends who had gone intimate and weren’t sure how to go back? So we just kept
going. Neither of us were un happy,
but I don’t think we were entirely happy either. We were just going through the
motions.”

 
    “Oh,” Kurt said, trying to push the idea of her
enjoying sex with Tyler as far out of his mind as possible. “Did he feel the
same way?”

 
    “I think so,” she said, “Only he didn’t realize
it until after the breakup so.”

 
    “So he was a bit more torn up about it when it
happened?” Kurt felt excitement course through his veins. If they had been
broken up for a while, she had ended things, and she had really felt the ways
he was describing now then it was perhaps really okay for him to make a move.
He got the feeling she was single. He wanted to ask, but since they were
talking about Tyler, he figured that could wait.

 
    “I mean, we were both torn up but yes, he took
it a bit harder initially. That happened a little over a year ago, though, and
we’re okay now. We still talk casually, but hang out rarely. I guess that’s
just the way these things go.”

 
    Kurt cleared his throat and placed his hand on
his knee. His finger twitched. He wanted to reach out and snatch up Claire’s
hand to feel her slender hand swallowed by his. He looked into her eyes before
his gaze drifted down to her pretty, pink lips which she applied a light coat
of gloss too.

 
    He wanted to kiss her. He wanted to do things
with her he had always dreamt of doing. But he doubted if she felt the same
way, particularly given there was no way it could actually amount to anything.
And that was something that tugged on him a bit too. He had been so madly in
love with her that he didn’t know if he could just have sex with her and skip
town without some kind of lingering desire to explore an actual relationship
with her. But as his gaze moved back up to look into her hazel eyes and he
remembered the way her cleavage had looked as she started leaning forward in
the car, he felt a slight stirring in his pants. He cleared his throat again
and shifted in his seat.

 
    “Well, I’m glad it wasn’t anything terribly
heart-wrenching. I know it hurt, but you know what I mean.”

 
    “What? Like Tyler cheating on me? I forgave him
for that years ago,” she responded coolly.

 
    “ What ?”
Kurt looked at her with wide eyes.

 
    Claire giggled and scooted closer to him to bump
her shoulder against his. “I’m kidding ,”
she told him. Then she stopped giggling and stared into his eyes.

 
    Kurt could feel his heart slowly thudding
faster and faster, like a train picking up speed. His breathing slowed and
suddenly everything around them went quiet. If ever there was a moment he felt
was the perfect time to kiss her, it was right then. The way she was looking at
him made it hard for him not to lean in, so he did, but only slightly. As soon
as he did he realized what was happening and he turned to pretend he was
scratching an itch on his shoulder