Back to Yesterday (Bleeding Hearts Book 2) by Whitney Barbetti

Author:Whitney Barbetti [Barbetti, Whitney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Whitney Barbetti
Published: 2016-10-17T18:30:00+00:00

The car ride out of the airport was silent under the cloud of night. There was something intimate about the lights in the vehicle, the way they glittered off his glasses as he navigated us out of the parking garage.

“Do you usually wear glasses?” I asked him after he paid the parking fee and had refused my proffered money.

He sighed, like he couldn’t believe this was what I finally said to him after our prolonged silence. “Just when I’m driving at night.”

“Is this your car?”

He looked over at me and blinked when we had stopped at a light. “Yes.”

At the back of my throat, I felt a burn—like heartburn—except it had everything to do with the fact that we were skirting around the reason I was here. Maybe he wasn’t ready to talk about it. I knew I wasn’t.

Streetlights washed over us as we moved down the highway. “Can you stop at a hotel first?”

“Why?” He looked over at me like I’d asked him to throw me out of the car.

“So I can check in and brush my teeth.” I placed a hand over my mouth. “I’ve been traveling for twelve hours. I need to freshen up a bit.”

“That’s fine.” But he had a tick in his jaw. His beautiful, sculpted jaw. He slid a glance at me. “But you don’t need to stay at a hotel. You can stay at my place.”

Alarm bells went off in my head. I could not stay at his house. No fucking way. I could barely stand to be in the car with him; no way could I be in his home. Sleeping in all the places that smelled like him. “No, really. A hotel is fine.”

“I’m not trying to be an asshole,” he said carefully, switching lanes to pass a slow-moving car. “But we both know you don’t have the kind of dough for a hotel for several nights.”

He wasn’t wrong, but it dug under my skin that I’d have to rely on him. Again. “I can’t crash on your couch, Jude.”

“Then you can sleep in my bed if you have an aversion to couches. But I know you can’t afford a hotel, and not for how long you’ll probably be here.”

“You don’t know how long I’ll be here.” My words had a bite to them, because I resented the fact that I was losing control now that I was within his reach. The truth was, neither of us knew how long I’d be here.

“All the better for you to stay with me. There aren’t any reasonably priced hotels that don’t require taxis. Don’t be stubborn about this.” The firmness of his voice surprised me enough for me to keep my mouth snapped shut. “Just stay at my place. We’ll hardly see one another anyway.”

I chewed on my bottom lip as I considered his logic and looked at him sideways. He was just so goddamn beautiful. With the hard line of his jaw and the brown hair that had grown since I’d last seen him—making my hands itchy to touch.

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