Bad Neighbor by Molly O'Keefe

Author:Molly O'Keefe [O'Keefe, Molly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-11-20T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Charlotte

It was a completely stupid idea. I totally understood that. Like in the pantheon of bad ideas, this wasn’t like… nuclear bombs, but it wasn’t quite as harmless as the Slanket either.

I’d had my hand smacked by Jesse plenty, I didn’t need to go searching out more reasons for him to be a dick to me. Perhaps any other woman would think Jesse had some kind of personality disorder, and frankly I had plenty of evidence pointing me in that direction. But there was something about him, something in the way he watched me out of the corner of his eye that reminded me a little of… me.

And because I was an idiot, I put the curtains I’d picked up at the hardware store—that had been on super discount because they were dark and ugly as hell—and propped them against the door.

I was just going to leave them there, but then I realized if I did there was a 100% chance of them being stolen. Maybe I’d knock and then run away, so when he opened the door they’d just be there.

Which was also dumb, because he’d know they were from me. Like some random stranger would go around leaving curtains against his door?

“This is so stupid.”

“What is so stupid?” a voice asked over my shoulder, and I turned to find Jesse standing there. Dressed head to toe in gray sweats, drenched in sweat.

“You’re not supposed to be running,” I said.

His eyebrows lifted. “I’m not?”

Oh man. It was like I’d just confessed to stalking. “You just usually don’t… you know…run at this time.”

“I don’t?”

Oh, okay. Now he was laughing at me and I felt the awful blush creep up my face.

“I’m not stalking you.”

“Clearly.”

“It’s just our walls are thin.”

He nodded. “They are.”

“Stop laughing at me.”

“Okay.” He leaned forward and kissed me, a light brush across my cheek. Agreeable Jesse was more potent than angry Jesse, it was like having a furious dragon curl up in my hand. “I’m running more because I have another fight in two weeks.”

“Oh.” That news sent dread spinning through my stomach as I remembered his swollen busted-up hands from his last fight. The way he stumbled down the hall, his shoulder against the wall so he wouldn’t fall over.

Awful. All of it awful.

“That explains what I’m doing outside my door,” he said. “What are you doing?”

“I bought you curtains,” I blurted. “Stupid right? Just… make fun of me and I’ll be on my way.”

He pulled the ear bud out of his other ear and pushed the gray hood off his face and I had to look away. That’s how handsome he was. How perfect and raw and hot.

My mouth literally watered.

“You bought me curtains?”

“Sure did. I mean, don’t get excited, they were on super discount. I think they’re… denim. Yep. I bought you denim curtains for like ten bucks.”

He looked at me with this weird little smile on his face. “No one has ever bought me curtains before.”

“Well, that’s swell, I’ve never bought anyone curtains.

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