Irresistible Bachelors: Books 1-5 by Landish, Lauren (bts books to read TXT) 📕

I stare at him long and hard. It’s hard to just drop my anger in an instant. But finally, I nod my head. “Two minutes.”

Gavin takes a deep breath, and what comes out is a bit of a rush of words, as if he’s really being timed. “What you saw that night wasn’t what you think. Leslie was just there to find out what was going on with me because I couldn’t deliver my lines.”

I stare at him, letting it process, seeing the sincerity in his eyes.

“It was because of you,” he confesses.

I gape. “Me?”

Gavin nods and reaches for my hands, and I find myself holding his fingers as he looks at me, his eyes burning with intensity as he speaks. “I can't even think without you near. The only way I can seem to get a halfway convincing line out is to imagine I’m talking to you and not Leslie.”

I’m breathless at the conviction in his words, my heart racing like a track horse. I would’ve never known.

“And lately,” he says, swallowing, “I don't even think I can breathe without you.” By now, sweat has formed on his forehead, and as prideful as he is, I know it’s taken a lot for him to admit something like this. Especially in front of Mindy.

All the doubts I feel fall away like leaves in the wind as I stare into the sincerity in his eyes, my heart feeling like it’s bathing in warmth.

“Well isn’t that sweet,” Mindy mutters in awe, shaking her head. “Bri’s pussy must be slammin’.”

I’m so enthralled with Gavin’s gaze that I can't even rebuke Mindy for her crassness.

Gavin takes me in his arms, pulling me close and putting his hands around my waist. “Can you forgive me?”

This close up, I can feel the warmth radiating from his hard body. I know I should tell him that I need time to think this over. But we don't have time. He’ll be gone in a few days. And I don't want to waste another second being mad at him.

If I only have a few days with Gavin, then I’m going to use every second of them.

I put my arms around his neck and stand on my tiptoes, pulling him down into a soft kiss that is electric, not because it’s arousing, but because there’s emotion behind it that I never thought I’d feel.

“There’s nothing to forgive,” I breathe softly, looking into his eyes. “Let me change clothes, and then I want you to come with me.”

“Where?” he asks, smiling. His beautiful eyes seem to pierce right through to my heart.

“To see the rest of me,” I reply softly.Gavin

“Turn right,” Brianna says.

I do as she says, turning the Lotus at a corner and glancing over at her, my heart pounding in my chest.

She’s changed out of her hotel uniform, and while it’s nowhere near as exposing as the simple sundress she wore on our park date, I’m still enthralled by the simple t-shirt and jeans that she’s wearing. “Up there by the gas station.”

After we made up in the coffee shop, I was a little surprised when Brianna explained what she meant by seeing the rest of her. I almost expected her to ask me to take her back up to my suite. I guess my mind was in the gutter.

Going to her apartment probably would’ve scared me twenty-four hours ago. But now I’m excited to see this side of her, the real woman behind the eyes. “Okay, now what?”

“It’s the brown apartment building up there on the right,” Brianna says, pointing. I take a look at the building, and my first thought—it’s a dump. Even back in my college days when I would visit friends or teammates who had apartments off campus, none of them lived in a place like this. It looks like the sort of place where you carry a BB gun to shoot the rats on a daily basis.

I glance over at Brianna. “So this is where you live?”

Her cheeks burn, and I realize that I may have hurt her feelings a little even if I didn’t mean to. “Sad, isn’t it?” she says in a melancholy tone, looking down in her lap. “I’m sure it’s totally beneath anything that you’ve lived in, and that’s why I didn’t want to have you drop me off here after our date.”

I shake my head and reach over to put a comforting hand on her thigh. “I’m not going to judge. I’m glad that you feel comfortable enough to show me where you live.”

“You know, Gavin, you can say all the nice things you want to try and make me feel better, but the fact is . . . this place is a dump. And I don’t know if you’ll understand.”

I rub her knee, partly to reassure her and partly because it’s one hell of a knee. “I might be spoiled, but I’m not irredeemable. I want to genuinely get to know you, every part of you.”

She blushes, and I get out of the car before her nervousness makes her ask me to take her someplace else. I help her out, realizing that this apartment has probably never seen a red Lotus sports car in front. I make sure I lock it before I gesture toward the building. “Lead on, please.”

It’s hard for me to keep from staring at her ass as she walks up the stairs in front of me, but when she stops halfway up and glances back, she smiles. “See anything you like?”

I nod, flashing her a boyish grin, my cock twitching in my pants. “Maybe.”

Brianna laughs, blushing a little. “You’re good at giving a hell of an ego boost, that’s for sure.”

We make our way up the rest of the stairs, and she leads me down the concrete walkway which has lines of laundry strung up on one side all the way to the end of the building. Brianna looks back at me nervously as she takes out her keys and