Always Only You by Chloe Liese

Author:Chloe Liese [Liese, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chloe Liese

This is why I’ve spent the past four years of my life locked down. Because when I keep my heart and feelings and body closed off, I don’t find myself waking up nauseously emotional, horny to the point of distraction, or horribly slept. I don’t do stupid things like sit with a ginger giant for an hour, until my eyes droop and my joints start screaming for their own bed to sleep in. I don’t have dreams that I can’t remember except for what they made me feel. Hot. Lonely. Hungry.

It’s all Ren’s fault.

I’m sore and tired as we stumble off the bus back in LA. My little Civic flashes her lights as I unlock her from across the parking lot and hoist my carry-on bag higher up my shoulder.

“Frankie.” Ren jogs toward me, hauling all his shit. Really, when is the guy going to let the minions be minions for him?

“Yes?” My stomach tightens, seeing him run my way. We spent the day tacitly avoiding each other. Or maybe I avoided him.

Okay, I avoided him. Because this is what my stomach did every time I looked at him. And what was there to say? Hey, I don’t know what’s going on with me, but I’m having lots of feelings for you which revolve around fascination, desire, and bone-chilling fear. I’m an unfiltered person, but even I know that would be too much.

I want to kiss Ren and push him away. I want a bath and a bike ride. I need a night alone and a weekend with my friends.

I’m coming unhinged.

He catches up to me. “Can I follow you to your place?”

“You want to follow me?”

His cheeks turn red. “That came out wrong. I wanted to come with you but drive my own car, and let you drive yours. Because it’s your first time going back to your place since…everything happened. I was going to offer to just do a walk-through, make sure you feel safe.”

Buh-bye somersaults. Now my stomach’s graduated to back handsprings. I grip my cane so hard my knuckles ache. “Well, that’s really thoughtful of you. But I was going to pick up Pazza first from Lorena. Echo Park’s even more out of your way. That’ll make for a late night.”

“I figured you’d want to go get Pazza,” he says without missing a beat. “It’ll help you feel safer to have her there. And no, I don’t mind the drive. I need some quiet in the car after days with the hooligans, anyway.”

He takes a step closer. “Please, Frankie? It’ll give me peace of mind, too.”

His hair rustles in the wind, unruly and backlit by the glow of the practice facility. Those wintry eyes sparkle beneath long sable lashes, tipped with auburn. How do you say no to someone as beautiful as Ren Bergman?

Especially when he’s even more beautiful on the inside.

I don’t know. He’s got a heart of gold but buns of steel. It’s a toss-up which is better.

“Okay,” I say on a sigh.

His hand reaches and squeezes mine, then gently releases it before I even process what he’s done.

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