Chase After Me (Wilde Ways 9 by Cynthia Eden

Author:Cynthia Eden [Eden, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Hocus Pocus Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2020-07-21T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“Dex was wrong.” Vivian stared out at the lake. The moonlight glistened off the surface. She didn’t know what time it was. Hours had passed since the bomb. Dex had grilled her, over and over again, and she’d been taken to a new, supposedly safer location.

They’d left the city. Driven for at least an hour and wound up at a lake-side cottage. The lake seemed to stretch for miles and miles, its dark surface ever so still.

“The guy is a piece of work,” Chase said. “But what is it that you think he’s wrong about?”

She turned away from the water. Faced him. Chase was on the couch, his body seemingly relaxed, but his gaze was locked straight on her. She was barely standing upright as weariness pulled at her, but there was no sign of fatigue on his face. He was just watching her with that careful, alert stare of his. “He’s wrong about you falling for me. About me falling for you.”

Chase gave a slow nod. “Huh.” His head tilted. “You didn’t fall for me.”

Now Vivian wrapped her arms around her stomach. “And you didn’t fall for me.”

“No, I did.”

Her body jolted. “What?”

He rose, slowly uncurling his body. “I told you already, I didn’t fake anything I felt for you.” He took careful steps toward her. “When I touched you, when I kissed you, everything I felt was absolutely, one hundred percent real.” He stopped just in front of her. “What about you?”

Her throat had gone dry. “What about me?”

“When I kissed you, how did you feel?”

Like I had never wanted anyone more. Her lips pressed together.

“Don’t want to answer? Okay, let’s try a different question.”

“I’ve already answered a whole lot of questions tonight.” He’d been there for every single one. Listening. Watching. Waiting. “I should go to sleep.”

“Answer just one more?”

She nodded.

“Why did you let me stay with you?”

Don’t leave me. He’d said those words to her, and they had pierced right through the pain that she’d felt. They’d seemed real. Raw. “Because I wanted you to stay.”

“That’s not telling me why.”

“Because…I feel safer when you’re near. Because I do know that you can still do the job. I don’t doubt that at all. If anything, I’ve seen firsthand that you will go to any lengths in order to complete a mission. Means I felt hurt as hell,” her words came faster, “but it also means I’ve seen you in action. I don’t have Dex’s worries. I don’t think you’ll be magically blinded by me and not able to catch bad guys. Controlled chaos, I think that’s what you said you had before? That you liked it? But I think you were wrong. I don’t think there is any chaos in your life. I think everything is carefully controlled. Others don’t see it.” She brushed past him. “Good night.”

“Others don’t see it because they don’t see me. You do.”

She stiffened.

“Dex was right about one thing. I do want you. Might as well clear the air and get that out in the open.

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