At the Next Table: A Lover's Landing Novella by Leanne Davis

Author:Leanne Davis [Davis, Leanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-20T16:00:00+00:00

It’s quiet now. He grasps me to his side as he falls into an exhausted sleep, induced by both sex and alcohol. Did he drink to go through with this? Perhaps. Most likely. I hadn’t. What was my excuse, then? Why had I done this? But no post-coital regrets fill me. I’m probably a one-night stand, but the desperate way he clasps me and holds me and even looks at me, is a turn on. It’s so intense I want to rub at the lines of concern on his face and tell him to relax. Just be here. With me.

For now, however, he sleeps hard. He snuggles into me, and it makes me smile because for as grumpy and crusty as I found him so far, I don’t expect the cuddling. Snuggling, really. He buries his face in my hair and holds me in both his arms.

He shuffles in his sleep. He mutters, frowns. I glance at him. The scruff on his face is thick and scratchy, careless, and kind of hot. What mysteries drive this man? Why does he seem more than a farm worker living in a room in a barn? I feel like there is more to him. Not that there’s anything wrong if that is his life. But I get the impression there is more he wants—or wanted—out of life. More ambitions and goals. Before something stopped him, stopped his life… Harper

Sighing, I know I need to find out the full story about Harper.

I stay for hours, as I drift off. I let his hands rub me when he seems distressed. Finally, I kiss his mouth softly, then slide from his bed. I find all my clothes, slip them on, and quietly click the door shut behind me, glad to escape in my car and go to my room. I drop all my clothes in the hamper and take a long, hot shower. I lean against the stall as tears fall from my eyes, though I’m not sure why. I don’t feel dirty or ashamed. Used or abused. I feel needed and wanted, yet there’s some surprising sadness I feel about Holden even if I have no words to articulate why that is.

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