Delectable Desire by Farrah Rochon

Author:Farrah Rochon [Rochon, Farrah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780373863068
Publisher: Kimani
Published: 2013-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

“Dammit!”

Carter put his hands on his hips and stared at the entire bowl of buttercream frosting splattered across the floor.

“What’s going on with you?” Malik asked, walking up to him. “First you overcook the lemon filling, and now this?”

Carter grabbed a towel from the counter and started cleaning up the mess. “I’m just tired,” he said. Malik’s chuckle grated on his nerves. He looked over his shoulder. “What’s so damn funny?”

“You’ve got it bad” was Malik’s response.

“You don’t know what you’re talking about,” Carter said as he flung the icing into a trash bin.

“Remember who you’re talking to. It wasn’t all that long ago that I was in your shoes. Stop trying to fight it, Carter. It’s no use. You’re caught.”

“Nobody has caught me,” he said. “I’m not like you. This thing with Lorraine is just... We’re just having fun.”

Even as he said it, Carter wanted to take back the words. They left a vile taste in his mouth. He didn’t want to cheapen what he’d found with Lorraine, despite the fact that it scared the hell out of him.

“Does she know that?” Malik asked. “Actually, a better question is, do you know that? Because from where I’m standing, you’re doing more than just having a little fun. I’ve never seen you like this before.”

He’d never felt like this before, and that was what frightened him the most.

He’d had his share of women. Actually, he’d had his, his cousins’ and the entire Chicago White Sox outfield’s share of women. But never had he fallen so deeply, so quickly and so damn hard. He didn’t do long-term and high emotion. He did carefree and easy exits.

Not this time. This time, he had no desire to make a run for it.

Carter couldn’t shake the guilt he felt over allowing Lorraine to leave last night. It was bad enough that he hadn’t taken her home, but he hadn’t even walked her downstairs to meet the cab. What in the hell was wrong with him?

He pulled out his cell phone, but his fingers just hovered. He couldn’t bring himself to call her.

Coward.

He’d attempted this call at least a half dozen times since she’d left last night, but had yet to follow through. He was still unsure of what to say to her. Should he come right out and apologize? Should he play it off as though he didn’t think he had anything to atone for? He was so out of his element on this one it wasn’t even funny.

Phone call or not, he had to do something to let her know he was thinking of her. Because he was thinking of her. Constantly.

Carter pulled up the internet browser on his cell phone and searched for a local florist. He was about to order a dozen roses when he remembered their walk along the Nature Boardwalk the night of the event at Lincoln Park Zoo. He changed his order to irises.

Carter knew this did nothing to make up for how he’d left things last night, but he could only hope that it was a start on his road to forgiveness.

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