She hesitated for a breath then narrowed her eyes, and he scrambled to fix things before it all went to hell. “It’s not a case of me trying to decide what you should do.” Lee crossed his arms in front of his chest, all too aware he was putting a barrier between them, but he desperately needed one right now. “You know I like you. Hell, I like you a lot, and if things had been different, then you and I would be rocking that mattress and doing a snow dance in the hopes we ended up trapped with nothing to do but fuck around for the next week.” As he spoke her eyes grew wider, a flush rising to her face and leaving perfect red circles on her high cheekbones. “So why aren’t we?” she demanded. “Why are you standing way over there, and I’m over here when there’s only one bed, and you know I want you?” “Because if you’d really wanted me, you would’ve had me last spring.”
