37 Questions by June Kaye

Author:June Kaye [Kaye, June]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 8th Note Press
Published: 2025-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

NORA

How do I say I want him so badly I’d rather not have him at all? Nora had asked herself.

It was hard. It made little sense. And yet she did it, letting the words flow as they came, speaking her mind. And Aiden seemed to understand what she meant, or at least to respect her decision.

Nora’s heart pounded.

She recalled the night she and Jay broke up. They sat cross-legged in front of each other on their bed and she said, “I don’t think this is working.”

“No, it’s not,” he agreed. Her heart pounded back then, too. It was the distress of disconnecting herself from someone with whom she used to have a powerful bond.

With Aiden, the pounding came from the thrill of feeling so connected to someone she’d just met.

It was similar to how it had happened with Yeong, too—the two of them entering her house expectantly, her heart racing at the thought of what might happen; then her heart beating even faster when the door had barely closed and his lips were on hers; and finally the full pounding of her heart when he pulled up her blouse, and she gave herself over to her desire. Nothing but a shallow, physical response.

The bond she was developing with Aiden, that was what she had been looking for. And it didn’t have anything to do with her workplace, thankfully. What did he do for work, anyway?

“We’ve been talking for hours, and I still don’t know what field you work in,” she said.

The startled look on Aiden’s face gave away that he wasn’t keen on the subject. After blabbering about her job and her stable financial situation, it occurred to Nora that maybe he wasn’t so comfortable talking about his.

“I work in the entertainment industry.”

His answer was vague and short, and Nora decided to leave it like that. Maybe Aiden had a menial job and was embarrassed to talk about it, even though he should know he could trust her. If he worked a humble job, she wasn’t the type to judge him for it.

Aiden didn’t look like someone who struggled financially, though—Nora had noticed the quality of his clothes and the logo on his duffel bag. Perhaps he was like Dipa, who was always buying designer clothes and perpetually struggling with her credit card bills.

Or maybe he did something he wasn’t proud of—could he be the owner of a strip club? That would be hilarious; he seemed too prim and proper for that line of work.

A notification popped up on her phone and, after reading it, Nora whooped as if Brazil had won another world cup. She started blowing out the candles when she noticed Aiden’s confused face.

“What are you doing, love?”

Oh. If she continued putting out the flames, they would soon be in complete darkness. What a genius. “Could you turn on the lights, please?”

Aiden headed to the switch. “Of course, but . . . what happened? Was it something I said? Are you—”

“The tornado warning is over! We can leave the basement! We’re free, Aiden!” Nora said as she unplugged the heater.

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