Beautiful Crazy by Kasey Lane

Author:Kasey Lane
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2016-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Mason was knee-deep in emails and his strategic plan when a cry sounded over the dull hum of the RV’s engine, startling him. Was that Kevan crying? He pulled his tired body from the table and stood outside her bunk, listening. The dark burgundy curtain swayed gently with the rocking of the RV, but no more sounds came from her bed. Just as he was about to give up and chalk the noise up to the late hour and his ping-ponging thoughts, he heard a low sniffle and groan. A sad sound from a normally upbeat and energetic woman.

“Kevan?” he called quietly, not wanting to wake her up if she was sleeping. “Are you okay?”

“I’m fine. Go away. Just a bad dream.”

Bullshit. He pulled the curtain back. “Hey!” she squealed, scrambling to cover her exposed legs. “Get out of here.”

“I heard you crying. What’s wrong?” He could barely make out her reddened eyes in the shadows of the darkened bunk.

Instead of looking away, she squinted her eyes and squared her chin. “I wasn’t crying. I was sleeping. I had a bad dream. And, no, I don’t want to talk about it.”

“Why are you so fucking stubborn?” he growled. Why wouldn’t she let him help her?

“Why are you so damn bossy?”

They stared at each other in the darkened RV for what seemed like hours but was only moments.

Enough of this crap.

He reached one arm beneath her knees and the other under her arms and scooped her up. The startled look on her face was almost worth the payment he knew she’d render from his hide later.

“Put…what…stop…” she sputtered as he clutched her against his chest and marched to the bedroom. His heart thumped in his chest, beating double time, perfectly in synch with hers.

Settling her on the bed, he gathered her wrists in one hand and looked her in the eye. “Stop,” he said simply.

She quit squirming but didn’t break eye contact. Her scowl dug deep lines bisecting her brows.

“I still don’t trust you.”

“I know,” he said as he caressed her wrist with his thumb. Her quickening pulse told him a different tale.

Leaning down, he kept eye contact and brushed his lips across hers, skin just touching, but the ever-present spark arcing between them. Her quick intake of breath and the arch of her back signaled her interest.

“Let me comfort you. Let’s pretend—just for tonight—that none of the other stuff matters and there’s only us.”

“It’s not that simple, Mason.” The sadness in her sweet smile wrapped around his chest and squeezed just a little too hard on the bindings he kept tightly around his emotions.

“Tonight, it can be,” he whispered, his voice scratchy and rough with need. He leaned down again to kiss her in that special spot but rubbed the bridge of his nose along the long, elegant line of her neck instead. “God, you smell so good.”

“We don’t get to make the rules. They’re already set, and we have to play by them.”

He smiled and slid his tongue along the delicate shell of her ear.

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