Carpool Crush (Sworn to Loathe You Book 2) by Rachel John

Author:Rachel John [John, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-12-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17 – Noah

I was exhausted from all the packing and moving. Jenny seemed exhausted too. And so very grateful. But a cautious grateful. She didn’t hug me goodbye. Sadie hugged me goodbye. Dan even hugged me goodbye. But not Jenny. She gave me a sheepish fist bump and said she’d owe me forever.

I felt really bad about it until I sat down in my truck to go home and felt something in my back pocket. I pulled out two carefully folded twenty dollar bills and smiled in wonder. Did Jenny have pickpocketing skills I didn’t know about?

Part of me was tempted to run them back to her right then. She clearly didn’t have a lot of money to spare. She couldn’t even afford to live alone in a one bedroom apartment if she wanted to. And that killed me. She was supposed to have a nice bump in pay along with her promotion. I was tempted to ask her about it, but there was no tactful way to do that.

No, Jenny would not appreciate me asking how much she was making, and she would not appreciate me giving back her gift. So I’d hold onto the money, at least for tonight. And I’d find a way to get it back to her one way or another. A tank of gas, a lunch or two, money to replace her clothing items that blew out of my truck.

I whistled as I climbed the stairs up to my apartment, attempting to distract myself from the thought of Jenny’s underthings. Not that I’d intentionally checked them out. It was just hard to not notice what was in my hands… and pockets. Sadie and Dan had teased me about trying to take a souvenir home with me, while Denver gave me murder eyes. Jenny might accuse me of jealousy, but I wasn’t the only one with that particular problem.

Somehow I’d need to explain to Jenny that calling it jealousy was oversimplifying the issue. Denver and I were both being protective of her, and yeah, maybe a little bit territorial, too. Okay, maybe I wouldn’t try to explain it to Jenny. She couldn’t even accept we had real feelings for her. She seemed baffled that either of us would see her that way.

Dang, maybe I should have just kissed her. I groaned, thinking about how close we’d come and how badly I botched that.

I unlocked my door and walked in to find all four of my brothers sitting at my kitchen table eating tacos from Mangos, giving me a weird sense of déjà vu. The restaurant must have been hopping tonight.

“Where have you been?” Trace asked. He picked up a taco wrapped in paper and tossed it to me. I dropped my keys just in time to catch it. I’d eaten a few at Denver’s house, but I hadn’t wanted to take too many of Sadie’s peace offerings, considering they worked so well. Not that she and Denver were buddies now.

As I had predicted, Sadie was already on bodyguard duty when I left.

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