ROMANCE: DBL Coverage (Bad Boy Sports Romance)(Alpha Male Football Romance) (Contemporary New Adult Womens Fiction Romance) by Carly White Page B

never been so close since that kiss, both holding off on physical contact.
    It was sometime before he let go of her and she moved back. He wasn’t teary-eyed, but he had sighed deeply into her. There was a moment where his body had just sagged against her slightly and she hoped that he was feeling some relief. She opened her mouth to say something, but she stopped herself. It would have sounded contrite and scripted. There was nothing really to be said in that moment and she rubbed the top of his hand with her thumb.
    It was distracting and he got up. “I got to make a couple of calls. I will be back.”
    She looked after him and then sighed to herself once he was out of sight. It meant that she was going to go back home, something she could have done for the last week, but now there was no reason to stay. Everything had worked out, Andre and his father would have their justice and her life was going to go back to normal. It saddened her suddenly to think of going back to school and her old life. Her life before without Andre was not what made her happy. While she was thinking of ever after, Namadi had to remind herself of who he was. He was a gang member that did more than a few illegal activities. She didn’t even have to know what they were.
    But when he came back in and smiled at her halfway, she knew it didn’t matter. He wasn’t thinking of forever, but maybe right then was enough. It was going to have to be enough, because tomorrow she would have to go back into reality.
    “Are you okay?”
    He nodded that he was and he seemed to be a little better, the shock running its course. “I’m sorry that you had to see that.  I usually can hold it together better.”
    Namadi was not amazed anymore. The man was so different than his gruff exterior would suggest. His tattoos were scary looking, but were memorials to fallen friends. The muscles that could snap her like a twig, had only ever held her close and kept her from harm. Everything about Andre pointed to him being one way, but in reality he was another way.
    “It’s a lot to take in.” She walked towards him slowly, still not sure as she moved what she was going there for. “You don’t have to always pretend to be so strong.”
    His eyes narrowed at the word pretend and he too wondered why she was suddenly so close. Andre had kept her at arms-length so as to not do what he wanted to do, but she wasn’t helping his cause. “Do you know what you do to me Namadi?”
    She shook her head that she did. It was no secret and the way his blue eyes would darken as if a storm was brewing, she only wondered why it had taken so long for him to realize it. “Then why haven’t you kissed me again?”
    “Because if I start, I am not going to want to stop.”
    Going to her tiptoes, she brushed her lips across his. “Who says you have to?”
    Andre had learned some things about Namadi and the offer was not taken lightly. There were many things that he wanted to teach her, but he didn’t know if he could be what she needed. Namadi needed someone who would be gentle with her, take her slowly to give her time. He wouldn’t be able to slow himself down. There was no way if he got her underneath him, that he would be able to be the gentle and sweet lover that she needed.
    “Don’t ask for things that you don’t understand Namadi.”
    She rolled her eyes and it didn’t stop her from putting her arms around his thick neck. “I know that you will never hurt me Andre, but I also know that you don’t care for me the same way I do for you. That’s okay. If I only get tonight, it will have to be enough. I want you to be my first.” She wanted him to be her only, but she knew that a man like him was most likely not able to give himself to just one woman. It would have to be enough to be his only for just that once.
    Andre was fighting his own demons, wanting nothing more than to give her exactly what she asked for. His hands went to hers, trying to untangle himself from her