Cole (Bachelors of the Ridge Book 3) by Karla Sorensen

Author:Karla Sorensen [Sorensen, Karla]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Dutch Girl Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-03-21T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Julia

“I think I’m going to puke.”

“Not in the muffins, please,” Brooke called from the couch. “Aren’t I supposed to be the one with that particular issue?”

I blew out a hard breath so that the chunk of hair that had fallen in my eyes moved out of the way while I scooped muffin batter into the tin. “You’re not exactly in the same position that I am right now.”

“Ahh yes. The position where your charming and handsome ex-husband is about to knock on the door to this apartment in about five minutes?”

Yup. That was the one. And maybe there was the teensy little addition of the kiss, the one that I had yet to tell Brooke about because I didn’t want her to go into early labor when she found out. “Yeah, maybe.”

“It’ll be fine. Cole will be so excited to see me that he won’t even notice that you’ve baked five dozen muffins and can’t stop fluttering around the room.” She smiled at me when I glanced at her over my shoulder from the shoebox-sized kitchen.

“Thanks.”

Brooke stretched and pushed a fist into her back. “You’re welcome. Lord, I swear there won’t be room in here for much longer.”

Instead of responding, I stared at the clock while it ticked past another minute. Cole would be here any second. My stomach rioted with nerves, so buoyant that I thought it might float right up my throat. Rory’s advice the night before never stopped chipping away at my brain, so I only managed a few fitful hours of sleep. Besides the unintended glimpse in the grocery store, this was the worst I’d looked since Cole first saw me again. That was okay though, because he’d already seen me at my lowest. Rory was right about that.

We were past the point of needing to impress each other. What we needed to do—decide if we could do—was see whether we had enough of a foundation to rebuild. Whether the attraction we felt wasn’t a symptom of missing each other, missing the intimacy we had, or if it was real.

It sure as hell felt real to me, that gnawing pain inside of me when I thought of him now. Cole had well and truly been released from the prison I’d kept him in for so many years. Now he was everywhere, coursing through my veins, my heart, my mind.

“I kissed him,” I said quietly, hoping that maybe Brooke wouldn’t hear me.

“What?” she screeched.

With a wince, I turned to face her. “Yesterday. At the house.”

Her jaw fell so far open that I could have punched her in tonsils if I wanted to. “You dirty, lying little slut. How could you not tell me?”

Nothing like a loaded question to answer two minutes before Cole walked in the door. I washed my hands and took my time drying them on the towel she kept hanging on the handle of the stove before going and sitting next to her on the couch. “Because I knew once I did, he and I would be a sure thing in your mind.

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