Burning Both Ends by Sinclaire Jayne

Author:Sinclaire Jayne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Published: 2017-05-29T04:00:00+00:00

She hated this part. The part where they wanted more. They always got angry. Blamed her. Said she was stupid to dwell on the past. No one understood. Her family thought she was crazy. A counselor. Always a counselor. Or meds. Or just get over it. Like her promise to Ryan had been a cold virus.

“Tell me,” Lock said again, turning her around to face him while he slipped the robe around her, guiding her arms into the sleeves like she was little or precious.

Her heart lurched. He couldn’t do things like that. She grabbed his biceps.

“It’s me. Not you. Nothing’s wrong with you. You’re perfect. It’s me,” she said, fiercely wanting him to know.

“I’m a few skipped stones away from perfect,” he said. “Let me get us something to drink, and then you can tell me.”

“Don’t you need to get back to work or something,” Dare said, and she could hear the edge in her voice.

“I got a lot of phone calls to make, and I’ll check in with Reese in a few, but you were going to tell me something first.”

She would have objected but he was already striding towards the house with that ground-slaying stride. She’d wanted him gone so she could re-center herself, but now that he’d left she felt empty. How was that even possible? All they’d done was have mind-blowing sex one night and then today he’d bossed her around. And rejected her.

So why was her heart flipping over like she was a stupid, naïve teenager again thinking that love worked out.

Love!

She did not just think that word. Lock was hot. And sexy. And smart. And stood up to her crap.

He was perfect.

For someone else.

Lock went into the house and returned a few minutes later with two smoothies.

“Kale?” She looked at the green color.

“And a lot of other greens.”

“That’s a few stone throws closer to perfect,” she said using his words back at him.

“Trying to get better each day.”

He sat on a lounger near the pool, probably trying to give her some space.

She sat on a chair, pulling the tie tighter on her robe—so not like her, but Lock had made his intentions clear and, for some strange reason, she didn’t feel like pushing him just because she could.

“This is delicious,” she said sipping the bright green smoothie. “Maybe we could swap recipes.”

He rolled his eyes. “Quit stalling.”

Then he smiled at her, and her heart broke a little.

She played with the tie of the terry, trying for once to choose her words carefully instead of blurting and letting what happened, happen. Oddly, she wanted to make Lock understand. Not hurt him. She didn’t understand it, but she marveled a little at her feelings.

“I was in love once,” she said softly. She bit her bottom lip hard to feel the sting so she could focus. “I was young. So young. We both were. But it was real. That’s the thing in my family. We fall in love straight away and it’s forever. Have you heard the story of my parents? My dad was a firefighter.

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