Chasing Delia by Cara Aubrey

Author:Cara, Aubrey [Cara, Aubrey]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Baronet Press
Published: 2014-11-06T05:00:00+00:00

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Jake was in deep. He stretched out on the couch, Del curled up next to him, absently rubbing circles on her back. He felt like even more of a jerk than ever. She looked so broken when she had talked about growing up in foster care and her awful mom. He wanted to hunt down every one of those narrow minded holy rollers and shoot them for making a child think she was somehow bad or evil because her mama was a dumb drunk.

She should have been taken in and loved. He was sure she had been a beautiful, sweet child, and it killed him to know she hadn’t been cherished the way he knew she deserved. He had wanted a glimpse of who she was. Unfortunately, he hadn't considered how dredging up the past could break her apart. He had brought up painful memories when he should have kept their first real evening together carefree and light.

Each inhalation swirled her scent around him like an aphrodisiac. Now he felt like even more of a bastard because the longer he lie there with her, the more he wanted to strip her clothes off and sink himself inside her sweet warmth.

Choosing to torture himself, he stayed there, falling into a fitful sleep only to wake in the wee hours of the morning stiff as pole. He eased out from under her before covering her with the throw blanket off the back of the couch. Watching her sleep, looking so peaceful and small, reminded him of seeing her unconscious in a hospital bed with ugly bruises on the side of her face and forehead. He would do well to remember only a few short months ago her husband had walked out on her, breaking apart her world.

She had been raw and wounded, and not just from the accident. He had to remember how far she had come, and recall she was still getting her new existence figured out. That was going to be the hard part, pulling back. As much as he wanted to jump into a hot and heavy love affair with Del, he knew she wasn’t ready.

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