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button.
    “What are you doing?” he asked.
    She toyed with the button of his jeans. “What’s it look
like?”
    “No, stop. The floor is disgusting.” He pulled her up by her
shoulders. “We need to slow down. I don’t want you to do anything you’ll
regret.”
    “I doubt I’d regret giving you a blow-job.”
    His eyes were dark, and she could tell he was imagining it,
her taking his cock deep into her mouth as her tongue flicked the tip. “It
pains me to stop this, but we have to. I want us to get to know each other.”
    “Braden, it’s not like we don’t know each other. We’ve been
talking to one another for years. I think it’s time we make this physical. I
don’t find it fast. We’re not strangers.” She cupped his erection again. “I
want you.”
    He bit his lip. “I want you too, but I have to tell you
something first, sweetheart.”
    She huffed and dropped her hand. Obviously, whatever he had
to tell her, it had to be now. “Okay, go.”
    “Now you sound irritated.”
    Just a bit. It wasn’t every day she threw herself at a man,
only to be told he wanted to talk. “I’m not. Just sexually charged. The sooner
you tell me whatever it is, the sooner I can get back to seducing you.”
    He took a deep breath. “I don’t even know how to say this.”
    He paled. Oh God, did he have an STD? “Braden, just say it.
You’ll feel better once you do.”
    “I’m not so sure.” He let out another long breath. “Okay.”
He licked his lips. “I’ve waited years and for the right woman. I didn’t want
to do this with just anyone.”
    What the hell is he talking about? Poor guy never had
a blow-job?
    He cleared his throat. “I’m a virgin.”
    She cocked an eyebrow. Did he just say he was a virgin? “You’ve never had sex?”
    “No.”
    She sat down on the barstool. This changed things…a lot.

Chapter 8
     
    As soon as Courtney sat down, Braden could sense things had
changed. She stared at her palms, avoiding his gaze.
    “I don’t want that to change things,” he said.
    She rested her hands in her lap and looked at him. “Of
course not.” Her tone told him otherwise, as well as the apprehension in her
expression. “All right, it’s time to lock up and head out of here before I have
to be back again tomorrow.”
    She stood and brushed past him. He ached to grab hold of
her, but the truth was he was embarrassed. He’d told her something very
personal and she was freaked out. Maybe a night of rest would give her a clear
head. Just because he’d never had sex, that didn’t make him a different person.
At least he didn’t think so.
    “Okay. I’m ready.” She appeared next to him with her purse
on her shoulder.
    “All right.” He touched her lower back as she turned and headed
toward the entrance.
    They were silent as he walked her to her car. She unlocked
the door and tossed her purse inside before spinning back around.
    “Thank you for helping me close up tonight.”
    “Anytime.”
    “You go home and get some sleep.”
    “Same to you.”
    She leaned forward and placed a peck on his cheek. “Good night,
Braden.”
    “Good night, sweetheart.” He pushed her door closed and
stepped back. She started the vehicle and backed out before he opened his truck
door and climbed in.
    So maybe telling her had been a mistake this early on, but
it wasn’t something he could’ve kept quiet for long. It would’ve been obvious
when they’d had sex, wouldn’t it?
    He groaned. This was ridiculous. He’d built her up to be his
dream girl, and maybe he needed to face reality that she wasn’t. If she
couldn’t look past his inexperience, then it wasn’t worth it. All he could do
now was see what tomorrow—more like later today—brought.
    * * * *
    Braden threw the hammer on the ground and then dropped down
himself. He lay on his back, staring up at the dark sky. The clouds were moving
in quickly and before long, the rain would start. He really should clean up and
head back to the house,