Asher by Hope Hitchens

Author:Hope Hitchens [Hitchens, Hope]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-06T16:00:00+00:00

The car ride was the longest I’d ever had in my life. She didn’t say shit to me the entire time, and slowly, the tension that had become familiar between us had built till we were drowning in it. The elevator ride up had been worse. She’d walked out ahead of me and opened the apartment door, going in first. I followed her inside, closing the door behind me. I watched her form heading for the bathroom, probably to take a shower. I sighed and went to the kitchen for some water.

She appeared suddenly, walking to the freezer and pulling a frozen chicken breast out of it.

“Here,” she said, taking the water from me and flattening my palm so she could put the frozen meat on my knuckles. Good idea. I was tattooing the next day. Fuck, I hoped I still could.

“Why did you do that?” she asked, not looking up at me.

“You know why, Jenny,” I said, picking the water up in my other hand and drinking it.

“I didn’t ask you to.”

“I know you didn’t. You have more mercy than I do, and for that he’s lucky.”

“Don’t do that again,” she said. “I’ve watched you fight him twice because of me. I don’t want to get in between the two of you.”

“You didn’t do anything, Jenny. He had it coming.”

“Still not a good reason to fight.”

“Do you want me to tell you what he said? What earned him that fucking punch tonight?” I asked. She shook her head, not looking at me.

“You need to stop,” she said.

“Stop fighting Ryan?”

“Stop doing things like that. Stop changing your mind.”

“The hell are you talking about?”

“You already… I know how you feel now, finally, and I don’t want to get my hopes up again,” she said.

“You know how I feel? Crazy because you’ve been ignoring me all week—that feeling?” she looked up, frowning.

“Ignoring you? You’re the one who made it more than clear that you didn’t want me. I have counted no less than six different women with you since we met, Asher. Six. Even after that, I thought maybe there was a chance, but no. There wasn’t, and you’re not going to do this to me anymore so I can keep embarrassing myself.”

“I didn’t want you?” I said because it was the only part I’d really heard. “After that kiss, you thought that I didn’t want you?”

“I kissed you, and you looked at me like I was the biggest mistake you’d ever made.”

“Fuck, Jenny, that wasn’t it. I thought I fucked up, pushed you too hard.”

“Don’t make fun of me,” she said, looking down. “Don’t play this game with me. There is no gray area with this. There is me and you, and there’s yes or no. That’s it. Don’t tell me one thing then do another. You can’t keep me guessing in the dark about what you feel while you do whatever you want.”

“I want you, Jenny. This isn’t a game,” I cupped her face and tilted it up so she’d look at me.

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