Craving Vera by Nicole Jacquelyn

Author:Nicole Jacquelyn [Jacquelyn, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction
Publisher: Nicole Jacquelyn
Published: 2019-01-24T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Vera

I kept drifting off. No matter how hard I stayed awake or how cold I was, my teeth chattering so hard that my jaw felt like it was going to fall off, I couldn’t seem to stay conscious. Charlie had already pulled over once and yelled at me for falling asleep. It would have pissed me off, but I knew he was right. I couldn’t fall asleep when I was riding on the back of a damn motorcycle—I’d kill myself if I fell off. The fear in his eyes had woken me right up, and things had been okay for about thirty minutes, but I could feel my eyes growing so heavy again that I had a hard time keeping them open. It didn’t help that they were so swollen that I could barely see out of them.

I pinched my leg and took a deep breath as I laid my head against Charlie’s back. I’d never imagined that I’d be here again, riding on the back of his motorcycle. If it had been up to me, I would’ve gone forever without looking at him again, much less wrapping my arms around his waist.

Nothing in my life seemed to make sense anymore. My entire life I’d done all the right things, followed all the rules, and tried to keep the peace at home—and all it had taken was one month to screw all of that up. I didn’t know what I’d been thinking, running around with Charlie like some woman of the world.

I wasn’t a woman of the world. I was a girl, a stupid girl, and now I was on my way to God knew where with a man who didn’t even want me with him. How had it come to this?

I wished that I could go back to that first night when I’d heard Charlie grilling in his mom’s back yard, his laughter drifting in the kitchen window. I should have never gone outside, never walked over to the fence to get a better look at him, never stared at the bright white smile that made my belly fill with butterflies, never introduced myself. There were a hundred things that I would change if I had the opportunity.

I caught myself as I started to slip sideways, and even though it was impossible, I could’ve swore I heard Charlie swear.

Five minutes later we’d pulled into the parking of a sleazy motel right off the highway.

“You can’t keep ridin’ tonight,” he said as he climbed off the bike. “We’ll crash here tonight and head out in the morning.”

“I’m okay,” I argued, flexing my freezing cold fingers. I should’ve tucked them into his shirt like he’d taught me to keep them warm, but I hadn’t been able to make myself do it. There was a line, it may have been blurry, but it was there—and I wasn’t going to cross it. He was doing me a favor. That was it. His skin was no longer mine to touch, it really hadn’t ever been mine.

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