Demolished by Cathryn Fox

Author:Cathryn Fox [Fox, Cathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Swerve
Published: 2017-08-29T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten: Summer

I don’t need to turn to know Sean has entered the restaurant and has pinned with me those turbulent green eyes of his. I feel him long before I see him. Every nerve in my body jumps, comes alive under his dark stare.

As need sings through my veins, I strive to make my legs work and carry the bowls of pasta to my last table. I try to ignore all six feet of him standing there, oozing testosterone that is messing with the greedy spot between my legs, but that would be like standing in the middle of a highway and pretending an eighteen wheeler wasn’t about to mow me down. I turn, unable to help myself, and catch him staring.

My insides tighten. What is it about a guy in jeans and work boots that gets to me? Correction. What is it about Sean in jeans and work boots that gets to me? His brothers are dressed the same, but I only see Sean.

“I’m not done with you.”

As his parting words dance around inside my brain, my entire body quakes, but no way, no how can we finish what we started here at the bar. His brothers stop to talk to Beck, and when Sean lowers that big hard body into one of the wooden chairs in the corner, I figure it’s as good a time as any to talk to him about his grandmother’s visit. I’m sure he’ll make this right so I don’t have to go. Deep down I don’t want to go. Not one little bit.

Okay, maybe a tiny little bit—or a lot.

But I can’t go there with Sean. I can’t get involved with him like that. He’s not asking for more and I have trouble nipping at my heels.

As I approach his table, I see a Starbucks cup in his hands. My steps slow. Seriously, he went to Starbucks? I sure could use an Americano right about now, but surely to God, he didn’t make a run to Hope Falls to get me another one. That would be . . . too sweet.

“Hey,” I say as I approach.

“Hey yourself.” He holds the coffee out to me, and my heart squeezes. “You rushed out this morning before your finished your coffee, so I thought you could use another one. This one should still be warm.”

I swallow against the tightness in my throat as my pulse beats double time against my neck. I could get used to this, used to Sean. But we’re simply playing house, and I can’t forget that. “You didn’t have to do that.”

“Didn’t have to. Wanted to.” He gives me that familiar shrug again. “Besides I was in Hope Falls.”

“Bacon?” I tease in an effort to uncoil the knot in my gut.

He laughs. “For work actually. Needed some supplies.” He looks at his brothers and scowls. “My brother Tyler is working on a project, adding a new addition to one of the oceanfront homes, not too far from yours actually.”

“And that’s a problem why?”

“What? I never said that was a problem”

“You’re scowling.

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