Educating Holden (Wishing Well, Texas Book 11) by Melanie Shawn

Author:Melanie Shawn [Shawn, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Western, romance
Publisher: Red Hot Reads Publishing
Published: 2020-11-13T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Holden

“Broken crayons still color.”

~ Maggie Calhoun

As I stared down into Olivia’s eyes, all I could think was that it was too much.

I took a step back and her hand fell. “I’m fine.”

It wasn’t just her physical touch, it was her tenderness, her care, that was too much. It made me feel too much. She’d always done that to me—or undone me, I should say. It was something that drew me to her and also something that made me powerless to resist her.

“Holden.” She took another step toward me, and I took another step back. “How much pain are you in?”

“Right now?” My voice was raspy with need.

“Yes.”

“None.” It was the truth. Her closeness was more of a pain killer than any pills the doctors had given me.

She stood less than a foot in front of me and my back was against the wall. The energy between us crackled with intensity. The look in her eyes was different than I’d ever seen before. There was a light in them, a flame of determination. Something in our dynamic had shifted. If I didn’t say something…if I didn’t ask her to leave, a line would be crossed. A line that I knew I couldn’t come back from.

“Olivia, I think—”

“I really want to kiss you,” she interrupted.

“What?” My response was a knee-jerk reaction. I knew exactly what she’d said but I’d still asked the question as my eyes dropped to her mouth.

She licked her lips and my dick jumped behind my sweats. “I really want to kiss you.”

I closed my eyes as I fisted my hands at my sides. I was doing everything I could to think about anything other than how soft her lips would feel or how sweet her tongue would taste. I tried not to think about all the times I’d fantasized about crushing my mouth to hers and claiming her as my own. I tried not to think about how soft her curves would be pressed against my body.

“Do you want to kiss me?”

Her question sounded so innocent, harmless, and straightforward. My answer was obvious. Yes, I wanted to kiss her. But there was more on the line than just what I wanted. Unfortunately, I was having a very difficult time remembering what those things were. All of the blood that should be providing my brain support seemed to have traveled south.

“I can’t.” My eyes remained shut but I sensed her moving a step closer to me. My heart thudded against my chest and every cell in my body was screaming for me to give in to all the pent-up passion, and hell, love that I’d felt for Olivia. “We can’t.”

“Why not?” she shot back.

I inhaled slowly through my nose and reminded myself that she deserved better than me. She deserved a man that wasn’t broken, a man that would have acknowledged when she opened her heart to him and wrote the most vulnerable letter, a man that wouldn’t have gone years without speaking to her.

A better man than me.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.