Almost a Bravo by CHRISTINE RIMMER

Author:CHRISTINE RIMMER
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-07-11T14:52:33+00:00

Chapter Seven

By the time daylight came, Aislinn was nowhere near ready to deal with Jax again.

Her heart felt scraped raw. Last night had been everything she’d ever dreamed it might be, if he could be hers.

So how had it happened that the very rightness of it felt all wrong now, like some twisted, ugly joke? Her forbidden college-girl fantasy crush had come true. He wanted to be with her. He’d said it right out loud. He wanted them to go forward, together, as a couple.

She wanted that, too. So very much.

But right now, she couldn’t do it. She longed for him, but she couldn’t reach out for him. Not when she felt like an impostor in her own skin.

Her solution to all this confusion: hide.

Yes, hiding was childish and accomplished exactly nothing.

She hid anyway, remaining in her room until she knew that he and Burt would have finished breakfast and left for the stables. Creeping downstairs on tiptoe, she found the house empty. Out the side window, she spotted Erma at work in her vegetable garden.

Aislinn ate a bowl of cereal, spent some time with her rabbits and then wandered out to her workshop, where she attached colored glass beads and silver charms to silver filigree bookmarks for a standing order from Valentine Bay Books. It was mindless work, really. Perfect for a day like today when her concentration was pretty much shot. At eleven, when she ran back to the house to change for work at Sand & Sea, Erma was still in the garden.

Upstairs, Aislinn found her white lace bra on the bed and her missing sandal at the foot of it.

Jax had left a folded note beside the bra: Figured you might want these back.

For the first time since she woke in a panic the night before, she almost smiled. She was acting like a crazy person and he was being so sweet and patient.

That evening, at dinner, she shifted her glance away every time he tried to catch her eye.

Really, she was starting to piss herself off. She needed to talk to him, to apologize for freaking out on him. Whatever did or didn’t happen next with them, she owed him some kind of explanation for running out on him last night.

Unfortunately, she didn’t understand her own behavior, so her actions were going to be pretty difficult to explain.

After dinner, the men went back out to bring in some colts they’d left to graze in a far pasture. She helped Erma clean up after the meal and then spent an hour with Luna and Bunbun.

When she left the side porch, she felt restless and edgy. She returned to her studio until after midnight, losing herself in working out certain design issues in the new series of pieces she’d been planning.

The house was quiet when she went inside. Upstairs, she showered and got ready for bed. When she turned off the light, she saw the glow beneath the interior door.

He was awake.

And she needed to make her apology.

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