“I’m too previous for you,” Charlotte mentioned with a sigh, forcing herself to say what was actually bothering her, her coronary heart racing as she waited for Lara to say one thing.

9

Lara searched Charlotte’s blue eyes, her coronary heart racing with each anticipation and nervousness, her lips nonetheless tingling after one other wonderful however transient kiss.

“I’m too previous for you,” Charlotte mentioned with a sigh.

Lara sucked in a breath, aid washing over her. She hated seeing Charlotte this conflicted, however they each knew how feeble that protest was. Lara may hear it, they usually each had loads of examples in their very own social circle of completely happy {couples} in age-gap relationships.

Lara had already completed the maths, though it had been years in the past, lengthy earlier than she’d ever moved to Los Angeles, and will have predicted that sometime they’d be on the similar events and have the identical pals.

Nineteen years.

Lara had all the time been interested in older ladies. Her exes had been all about ten to 14 years older than her, and whereas Ada and Sydney had been nice collectively, and Kerri and Rachel… They had been simply such an ideal match. Whereas there have been years between them, the age hole wasn’t that important.

So, Lara acquired the place Charlotte was coming from. She actually did, however that kiss… Was Charlotte actually going to disclaim that there was one thing happening right here? And that she’d let it go with out one other thought as a result of there have been nineteen years between them?

Lara wasn’t about to go away with out getting extra from Charlotte. “I don’t suppose you’re,” Lara mentioned, her hand nonetheless on Charlotte’s hip, the opposite on her neck, her thumb gently transferring throughout her jaw as she held her gaze.

“I’m fifty-one.” Charlotte visibly swallowed. “Our lives are in fully totally different locations.”

Lara was nonetheless attempting to course of that Charlotte had really kissed her. She wasn’t ready for a full-on marketing campaign of why their age didn’t matter.

“Do you will have plans for tomorrow night?” Lara requested.

“I don’t suppose so. Why?”

“Have dinner with me.” Lara’s arms rested on Charlotte’s hips, virtually afraid to let go of her as a result of she would possibly run away from this dialog. “At a restaurant or at my place or right here. Wherever you’d be extra snug.”

Charlotte exhaled, and Lara acquired the sense that she was about to say one thing like, ‘What’s the purpose?’

“Have you considered our age distinction at any level tonight?” Lara requested.

“Sure,” Charlotte answered with out hesitation.

“Earlier than or after you kissed me.”

“After.”

“So, you weren’t excited about it earlier than that occurred.”

Charlotte appeared away. “Properly, I did. However solely that you just appeared mature.”

Lara’s pulse jumped. “So, your opinion of me modified after you determined to kiss me?”

Charlotte stepped again, placing some area between them. “I didn’t imply for that to occur. And no, my opinion didn’t change. I’m simply attempting to be reasonable right here. Since I got here out, I’ve been on a couple of dates, and for one cause or one other issues didn’t work out, so I’m attempting to cease myself from setting myself up for disappointment once more.”

“Since you suppose you’re too previous for me?” Lara guessed.

“Look, I’m conscious that age-gap relationships are all the trend. We don’t need to go far to see it. And it’s an entire factor, a trope, a fantasy virtually that our business has solely helped gasoline. However that’s all the time for the youthful lady. No lady my age is actively on the market attempting to satisfy somebody half their age.”

Lara leaned towards the arm of the couch, her arms folded throughout her chest. “Have dinner with me tomorrow. No strain. No expectations. Simply dinner. And possibly by the tip of it, you’ll see that the few years between us don’t actually matter that a lot.”

Charlotte smiled as she shook her head. “Few years, huh? What number of is a couple of?”

“Not sufficient to fret about.”

“Simply inform me. You realize I can look it up.”

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