Can't Hurry Love by Molly O'Keefe

Author:Molly O'Keefe
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780345525628
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2012-07-31T05:00:00+00:00

God’s mighty fist was punching Eli’s brain. It felt like God had a grudge, the sunlight had knives.

Soda, his dog, whined, and the sound scraped the inside of his skull. Soda’s cold nose bumped Eli’s hand, then dug under the blanket for Eli’s face, which he licked, breathing the stomach-turning scent of dog mouth all over him.

“Okay, okay.” Eli sat up and waited for the world to stop spinning before attempting to stand.

Looking down at himself, he realized he’d passed out last night cradling a bottle of bourbon like a lover, with one sock, no shirt, and his pants still on.

He dumped food in Soda’s bowl, getting half of it on the floor, but he didn’t bother to pick it up. Soda would take care of that.

Appalled, he pulled four condoms out of his back pocket. He remembered a half-formed plan to head into town to find Caitlyn or another woman who would make him forget his life for a few minutes.

Luckily, he’d been too drunk to remember where his keys were.

After getting dressed, he braced one hand against the door so he could fish his sunglasses from the bucket of crap by the front window without falling on his face. He burped up a mouthful of fumes, grossing himself out.

This was why he didn’t drink. He couldn’t stand himself hungover. The smell reminded him of his dad nursing a hangover every other morning. Sitting at the breakfast table, his head cradled in his hands, while Eli finished the toast he’d made himself. Eli used to drive himself to school those mornings, his father slouched in the passenger seat, his hat pulled low over his eyes as he dozed on the twenty-minute drive into town.

Like father, like son. The bitter thought was an angry bull and he gave it free rein as he jerked open the door.

As the sunlight attacked, his skin cringed in terror and his eyes screamed in surrender.

He wanted more than anything to crawl back into the house and hide until his head stopped hating him. But the sun was up and the animals were hungry and he’d already had a stomachful of self-pity.

Halfway down the steps he smelled something different on the breeze. Something delicious and life-saving. Coffee.

The sudden awareness that he wasn’t alone froze his muscles, wiped out what was left of his brain. And he could only stand there, numb. Refusing to turn around.

“Eli?”

His brain went red, his skin hot with a sudden spasm of a thousand emotions he had no interest in feeling. Anger, sure, but laced with a hurt, with a fucking betrayal, that made him murderous.

Victoria.

He thought he’d drunk the raw edges of all this misery away, but at the sound of her voice, it reappeared. Like a dead body bobbing to the surface.

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