Impossible To Resist (BWWM Romance Book 1)(80)

“Anyway, while we were on the dance floor, he kissed my cheek; it was sort of dark in there, and it was romantic, and I kissed him back, and then we stopped kissing and went back to the room. He was trying to hold to the professor and student relationship that we have, but the chemistry was just too hot between us and we wound up kissing again, and then we made love; Reggie, it was the single greatest night of my life. I never knew it could be like that with anyone. I was so amazed by him!” She was grinning happily, thinking back on it and she didn’t see Reggie turn sharply and gape at her, horror flooding his face.

“We made love all night, and the next day we got lucky and we were snowed in, so we made love all day long, and then all night again… we were like newlyweds who never came up for air! It was the best time of my life!” She sighed in bliss with a faraway look on her face. She heard a strangled noise beside her and it suddenly brought her back to the present and she turned to see Reggie vault up off the bench and glare down at her angrily.

“You slept with him? You had sex with your professor?!” he was almost shouting at her and she glanced around them, startled, hoping that no one had heard him. Heat flooded to her cheeks and adrenaline pounded through her heart as she looked up at her best friend and saw a furious man standing there.

“Reggie, what on earth are you so angry about? God! We’re both single adults! I’m graduating this year. I can sleep with anyone I want to, and if I want to sleep with him then I will! There’s nothing wrong with that! I can’t believe you’re so angry about this!” She lowered her brow and stood up to face him defensively.

He shook his head and pointed his finger in her face, gritting his teeth as he spoke to her in a deep tone. “You had no business doing that! None! He’s in a position of authority over you! It’s morally wrong! You are wrecking your life! I can’t believe you did something so cheap! He’s a college professor, Catalina, he probably screws his students all of the time; especially that one! I know who he is; I’ve seen him around campus.

“There are women chasing him all the time because of how he looks, and you were stupid enough to sleep with him?! You’re worth more than that, Cat! So much more than that! What the hell did you do that for? Damn it!” He turned his head away from her in disgust and fury and she felt the fires of outrage ignite and grow strong inside of her.

“How dare you tell me what I can and can’t do, and how dare you insinuate that he sleeps around! I’ve known that man for four years now, and I’ll tell you this, he hasn’t ever slept with a student before! I’m not wrecking my life! I made a decision to make love with a man that I have feelings for! That doesn’t make me cheap, and it doesn’t make me wrong! I know what I’m worth! Now I’m wondering if you do!” she snapped back at him in indignation.

Reggie turned his head back toward her and reached for her shoulders, grasping them firmly and pulling her so close to him that she was almost up against him. He looked down at her with a sea of emotion in his eyes as he struggled to find the words to say to her.

“Catalina Marshall, damn it… I know exactly what you’re worth! I’m your best friend! No one knows you better than I do! I want more for you than that piece of crap teacher who is willing to go after his own students like that!” His anger was powerful, but it did not reach his hands that were holding her tightly to him.

She shook her head at him fiercely. “He didn’t come after me, Reg. In fact every time we got close he tried to stop it! I was the one who kept going after him! I was the one who wanted him, and that’s not wrong!” she insisted as she glared hotly up at him.

Reggie shook his head. “No! It’s wrong! You deserve better! You shouldn’t be with him!” he cried out in exasperation.

She narrowed her eyes at him and planted her hands on her hips. “Oh no? Who should I be with then, mister high and mighty, just who do you think I should be with, if not him?”

Reggie hesitated a moment and shook his head, and then gushed honesty forth. “Me! Damn it, you should be with me! I want you! I’ve always wanted you. I care about you so much; Cat, I love you! Much more than just as a friend, but every time I try to show you, you just don’t see it!”

She stared at him, wide eyed as everything in her slammed to a halt. Reggie liked her. Reggie loved her. She heard his words echo in her head… he had always wanted her…. and she could not process them. All she could think was how, and why, and she could not get past either of those questions, all she could do was stare at him and blink, trying to make some kind of sense of what he had just confessed to her.

She didn’t have time to make too much sense of it. Reggie, in desperation to show her his affections, moved his hands up to her cheeks from her shoulders, and holding her face in his large palms, he tilted it up toward him and bent his head to kiss her mouth. His kiss was firm and possessive, demanding and insistent.

Catalina was in no way prepared for the experience of being held fast in her best friend’s arms as he kissed her with all of the emotion that he felt for her. She was too shocked to move at first, but as his kiss grew more ardent, everything in her began to move again and with each second that passed, fury began to burn through her whole body, igniting in her heart and burning along every vein in her.

She planted both of her hands on his chest and shoved him away from her in absolute aggravation, her breath coming fast and her eyes ablaze with outrage. “Reggie Brown, how dare you kiss me! How dare you think you can do anything like that to me at all! Ever! We’re friends! We’re best friends! You can’t just do something like that to me!”