Armored Attraction by Janie Crouch

Author:Janie Crouch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

She tried not to show how his words hurt her. “I’m going to take a shower.”

Vanessa turned and walked out of the kitchen. Her voice didn’t shake. She didn’t cry. Her shoulders and head were high. Hell, she’d had enough years of being an Epperson to know how to look as though she was in control no matter what.

But inside she could actually feel her heart crack. Once she was around the corner, she began rubbing her chest as if that would ease a pain that wasn’t physical.

Liam still thought of her as a selfish, self-centered person. He all but hated her.

She walked into the bathroom, shut the door behind her and peeled off yesterday’s offensive clothes. The dried salt dragged across her skin like sandpaper as she removed them.

He didn’t hate her. That was melodramatic. But he sure as hell wasn’t interested in being close to her.

Liam Goetz hadn’t been a part of her life in eight years. It shouldn’t affect her at all if he wasn’t interested in being a part of her life now.

But it did. She felt the tears she couldn’t fight anymore well up in her eyes as she opened the door and stepped into the shower. His words had sliced at her.

Especially after the past twenty-four hours. She didn’t think their lovemaking had erased all the pain from their past—nothing could do that—but she hadn’t thought it was just physical. It had been hot and passionate and something more.

At least it had been for her.

Evidently it had just been an opportunity too good to pass up for him. Just sex. Whatever anger he’d had for her eight years ago he obviously still had now.

As if he had the right to be angry. He hadn’t lost everything.

She tried to hold on to that thought, to hold on to the anger and let it push out the pain, but she couldn’t. The look in Liam’s eyes in the kitchen was inescapable in her mind. More tears fell at the thought of it. He regretted last night. Maybe not the physical act itself, but he regretted their intimacy. And he still thought her selfish and self-centered.

Some things never changed.

She was startled to see the door to the shower stall open. Liam stood there, fully dressed. He reached over and shut off the water.

“I’m an idiot. I’m sorry,” he said.

Vanessa stood there, dripping. He didn’t look anywhere but at her face. In her eyes. She thought she could see actual anguish in his.

It was hard to look at him. “You said what you felt. You weren’t very gentle about it, but you shouldn’t apologize for saying what you think is the truth.”

“But that’s it. It’s not what I think is the truth.”

He took a towel hanging on the rack next to him. She expected him to hand it to her, but instead he wrapped it over her head and began to gently dry her hair.

“You’ve always thought I was spoiled, Liam. Self-entitled.”

His fingers gripped the wet ends of her hair with the towel.

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