A Tiger's Bounty by Terry Bolryder

Author:Terry Bolryder [Bolryder, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-10-21T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

The following day greeted them with a heavy gloom that settled over Amber, in spite of how wonderful and hot last night had been.

Somehow, sex with Jace had only gotten better and better, and last night was no exception to the rule. Even now, she still felt the aftereffects of being pushed so far past her own limits of pleasure that she could swear she had an out-of-body experience, and just thinking about it made her quiver with recollection.

The only problem was it was becoming more and more apparent that Jace didn’t want her in the same way. He didn’t want to stay with her forever. He was already pushing her away mentally. She could feel it.

Without a word, he’d gotten out of bed to make breakfast for them while she called to talk to Josie about coming over and packed her few belongings. Josie had promised to take her shopping that morning to make up for the other night, her treat, but Amber had never been much of a shopper like her friend.

Still, she needed every distraction she could get right now. Last night, she’d thought if they just had one more time, she could get Jace out of her system and finally be done with it all. But her heart clearly had other ideas. And no matter how logical the things he said sounded, her heart still ached at the thought of losing him, like something was terribly wrong and nothing could be done to stop it.

Amber tried to tell herself it was just a stupid crush. In a few days, she’d be over it and happily enjoying her new life with her new job and the prospect of finishing up school soon, but her feelings told her otherwise.

Aside from ironing out the last few logistics, served with a hefty dose of advice on how to “be careful out there” and “always keep an eye out,” there was an awkward silence between the two of them that had never existed until this morning. It had been one of the reasons she’d trusted him so readily at the outset—he communicated with her and made her feel listened to, even if his own thoughts were sharp and succinct.

But as the morning progressed, it was obvious neither of them really knew what to say. Why didn’t Jace fight for her now like he had from the very first moment they’d met?

In the back of her mind, she could hear the vicious, self-critical voice seeping over her, telling her all the heinous things she’d told herself too many times. Jace wasn’t interested in her anymore because she really was just a boring, chubby woman with nothing going on in her life and nothing at all that interesting about her. If that had been different, he would want to keep what they had.

Amber’s heart tried to resist. She knew he was different. But his conflicted, almost cold indifference didn’t help her argument much.

After she ate a few bites of breakfast, her stomach rebelling at having anything inside it, Jace grabbed her things and led them up to his car.

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