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that times have changed and that women don’t need a man to take care of them. It’s more about having somebody to spend time with and enjoy being with. I’m not sure if I can get used to that, but I would certainly like to give it a try.” We walked out of the restaurant hand in hand and I think for the first time in my life I was truly head over heels.
    He stopped at his motorcycle and straddled the huge machine, until he was revving the motor and then looking at me with those piercing blue eyes that looked right through me. “I’m not sure if I should.” He reached back and passed me a second helmet, which I found myself taking and putting on. Throwing caution to the wind, I got on the back of him and felt the purr of the engine underneath me. I couldn’t exactly take my own car, because it had already been taken away by a tow truck to my local mechanic shop.
    I wrapped my hands around his waist and felt the muscles of his well defined abdominal region. It was like tracing train tracks with my fingertips and then he gunned the engine and moved out onto the road. If I thought the adrenaline rush that I was feeling from confronting that man was something else, then feeling the engine underneath my crotch was only enhancing that feeling by tenfold.
    I fit to him like a glove and I could feel the momentum of the speed buffeting against me and loving every moment of it. I had never gone into motorcycles before, but now I was seriously rethinking that position and wondering if maybe I should get one of my own. With my educational background and seniority at the university, I was making some good money and had been squirreling it away for a rainy day.
    We arrived at his apartment building, where he had to enter a code to get into the building’s underground parking. He parked in a spot that was most likely designated for him. Once again, he got off the bike and stood there with his hand outstretched, giving me one last chance to back away. That was something that I wasn’t going to do. “I think I might have a nice bottle of chardonnay upstairs and I would like you to join me. I’ll understand if you think that this is going too fast, but there are times that you just have to have faith.” The combination of the adrenaline and the feel of that machine underneath my body was more than enough to excite every freaking nerve ending.
    Not saying anything at all, I followed him over to the elevator and stood there uneasy and bouncing back and forth on the balls of my feet. “I’m nervous.”
    “I’m nervous too, Larissa, but I think that’s perfectly natural. I don’t want you to think that I do this all the time and truly you are the first woman that I’ve ever brought back to my place since my wife died. I haven’t been with the woman since her death.” His confession was met with wide eyed surprise and I felt honored to be the one that he would be with for the first time.
    “I’m glad that you told me that and you would be surprised at how many men would hide their feelings. I think it has something to do with testosterone and the fact that a man thinks that he has to be strong and in control all the time. Being vulnerable doesn’t make you weak, Drake…it makes you human.” He was being very open and honest with me and I felt secure in the knowledge that he really meant what he was saying.
    “I know that, but there were times that I thought that I had closed my heart and then you came along. I don’t know how many times my friends tried to fix me up with one woman after the other, but with each one came a sinking feeling of disappointment. I’m not just looking for somebody that wants to settle down. I’m looking for somebody that’s going to complete me. I don’t wanna speak out of turn, but I think that you might be that person.” That was a bold thing to say on our first date and once again I found myself kissing him inside of the elevator.
    Public displays of affection are not usually something