Destroyed by Jackie Ashenden

Author:Jackie Ashenden [Ashenden, Jackie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-04-11T18:06:19+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Summer

I DON’T KNOW what time it was when I woke up, but light was streaming through the big windows of Tiger’s warehouse apartment, illuminating the vaulted ceiling above me and the heavy beams that criss-crossed it.

I lay on my back staring up at it, for a second disorientated about where I was. But then Tiger shifted beside me, his arm tightening around my waist, and I remembered.

After another intense round of sex on the couch, he’d picked me up and carried me into his bathroom and got in the shower with me. Then he’d washed me carefully, like I was a child, before drying me off and carrying me up to the mezzanine floor where his big low bed was.

He’d done things to me in that bed. Things that had made me scream and cry out his name over and over again. Things I was never going to forget.

I wanted him to do those things all over again, but a quick glance revealed he was still asleep and if I wanted to have a look around his apartment without him getting in the way, it was going to have to be now.

Carefully I wriggled out from under his arm and slid out of bed, wincing a little at the way some of my muscles decided to remind me of what we’d been getting up to the night before.

It had been worth it, though, so worth it.

My clothes were downstairs, so I went down the iron stairs still naked, coming down into the living area. The dark blue T-shirt he’d been wearing the night before was on the floor and on a whim, I picked it up and put it on myself.

It was massive, falling to midthigh, but it was soft and it smelled like him and for some reason I didn’t want to take it off.

You don’t know me and good sex doesn’t mean a fucking thing.

His words from the night before echoed suddenly in my head, making my chest tighten. Which was stupid. Of course I knew it didn’t mean a fucking thing and, sure, maybe I didn’t know him.

So why do you want to then?

Good question, and one I didn’t have an answer to. Perhaps it had been something to do with the sex after all. Or perhaps it was all about the past and my fascination with him. Or maybe it had simply been after I’d gone on and on embarrassingly about how wonderful his tattoo was, and he’d finished my ravings about how everything had fit together by saying it was like a bike engine.

It had been the most perfect simile, the way he’d understood thrilling me deeply. There weren’t many people I could talk to about what excited me, mainly because people’s eyes tended to glaze over whenever I mentioned math. But Tiger’s hadn’t. In one simple sentence, he’d managed to encapsulate my feelings about puzzles and equations, and life in general so perfectly that I knew he’d understood.

Even thinking about it now

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