Dune Drive by Mariah Stewart

Author:Mariah Stewart [Stewart, Mariah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781501154423
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2018-07-31T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Chrissie arrived at Blossoms early on Tuesday morning hoping to have a few minutes to talk to Sophie before Dana got there.

She’d been awake the previous two nights, thinking about Jared’s invitation and vacillating between accepting and making an excuse as to why she couldn’t go to his father’s wedding. She really wanted to go, even though at first she’d had a hard time admitting why, but in the end it seemed flat-out stupid to lie to herself. She liked him. A lot. And she was attracted to him—who wouldn’t be? She hadn’t wanted to, hadn’t wanted to like or be attracted to anyone—but there it was. He was everything she needed to stay away from, and yet she felt like she was under some kind of a spell.

If he’d been trying hard to make her like him, if he’d come on really strong, or if he’d tried to seduce her, she’d have felt entirely different. But he’d done none of those things. He’d simply been a nice, friendly guy who said he enjoyed her company. Chrissie couldn’t deny that she liked his. The fact that he was movie-star handsome and had a great sense of humor and a phenomenal build should have been in his favor. But she’d thought the same about Doug when they first met, and those things that had caught her eye in the beginning hadn’t served her well after a while. With Doug, it had all been only skin deep.

Jared isn’t Doug.

She’d spent the past two nights telling herself that fact. So while she reminded herself of the similarities, she also reminded herself of their differences. Doug had been a flatterer, a man who always told you what he thought you wanted to hear. At least, in the beginning he had. After a while, he no longer bothered to tell her she looked pretty, maybe because she’d stopped caring how she looked.

Things had become so strained that shortly before she left, she’d asked him why he stayed with her if he was as bored by her as he’d professed to be.

He’d grabbed her ponytail and pulled her head back as far as it would go, exposing her neck. For one terrifying second, she’d envisioned a knife in his hand, saw her own blood spatter across the room.

“Because you belong to me,” he’d told her. Long moments passed before he’d set her free.

That was when she knew the time for her to leave was closer than it had ever been. The day she’d planned for would come sooner rather than later. Within a week, she was gone, but the memory of that mind-numbing fear had never gone away.

But Jared was nothing like Doug. And the chance to attend such a fun, happy event with Jared, even as a friend, was almost too tempting to pass up.

She decided she’d leave it up to the fates. If she asked for that weekend off and Sophie said no, then that would be her answer to Jared as well.

“He

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