Bad Habits by Cheryl Douglas

Author:Cheryl Douglas [Douglas, Cheryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-22T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Cece

Knox had put my mind at ease and now he was doing the opposite to my body. He was getting me all fired up. One panty-melting kiss at a time. With every piece of clothing we shed, I was getting hotter, needier, and more desperate to have him right where I wanted him. Between my legs, groaning my name, telling me all the dirty things he wanted to do to me.

“We have to hit the road soon,” he murmured in my ear. “You could always ride with me.” His lips were searing my neck, his finger coaxing me to another O. “We could stay holed up in this room and make up for lost time. All the years we should have been doing this, Ce. God, why weren’t we?”

If we’d given into the fiery attraction we experienced when we first met we might… be married by now. Except Knox wasn’t interested in marriage and babies. And I wasn’t either until my mind starting torturing me with the ‘what if’ game.

“What’s wrong?” His hand stilled and he pulled back to look me in the eye. “You tensed up. Is it because I suggested you travel with me? We can just tell people we’re working on a song or whatever. My driver’s discreet, believe me.”

His driver would have to be discreet, given all Knox had done over the years. The booze, drugs, endless parade of women. Knox and his band partied like rock stars and everyone around them looked the other way.

I pushed his hand away and pulled the covers up, trying to slow my racing thoughts. I was getting caught up in the past, worrying about the future, when I should be enjoying the present with this gorgeous, generous, talented man. But I couldn’t help myself. Warning lights were flashing in my head, making it tough to concentrate on anything else.

“Sorry,” I muttered. “It’s not the travel thing. It’s…” I sighed. “God, Knox. It’s everything.”

“What are you talking about?” He shifted so he was lying beside me, his head propped in his hand. “You’re not having second thoughts about us, are you?”

He sounded so uncertain, almost insecure, and that wasn’t like Knox. I would have sworn the man didn’t even know the meaning of the word vulnerable, but the way his crystal blue eyes were filling with wariness made me wonder if there was some fear lurking under all that bravado. Maybe Knox was just like the rest of us after all, afraid of being hurt, rejected, and left alone.

“I think we need to talk.”

“Okay.” He tugged on one of my springy curls, smiling when it bounced back. “You can talk to me about anything, sweetness. You know that.”

But could I? The kind of conversation I wanted to have was normally reserved for couples who’d been dating for months, not minutes.

I rolled on my side to face him, swiping my fingertip over his lower lip. God, that mouth.

“Um, remember how I said the other day that I’d been having some crazy thoughts after I was, uh…” Ugh.

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