End Note by Sonya Loveday

Author:Sonya Loveday [Loveday, Sonya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sonya Loveday
Published: 2014-12-16T05:00:00+00:00

OLIVER SHOWED UP WHEN WE were almost finished packing and moved the boxes to the back of a flatbed pickup parked alongside the bus. The guys hopped up on the back of the truck and waved for Murphy and me to join them. She waved them off, telling them she wanted to do one last walk through of the bus. I stayed behind to walk with her.

Leaving Murphy on the bus, I stepped out into the early morning air. There was a chill to it, a sort of crispness that I’d never felt before in the south. I shivered, enjoying every burst that slapped at me, waking me up. It was a cold slap of reality, but one I truly enjoyed. The quiet helped my thoughts settle, but it did nothing to ease the feeling that what had happened was only the beginning of something bigger. It sat heavy on me, like that feeling that something bad will happen and you can’t shake it. At least I was over being pissed. Lars was right, even if it hadn’t been the way they’d wanted it to go, it had happened for a reason. There was nothing to be done about it but to move on.

I didn’t hear Murphy come down the stairs, had no idea she was behind me, until she wrapped her arms around my waist. “We’re out from under Woody. I feel like I can finally breathe again for the first time in years.” I felt her chest expand against my back. “It’s like the sky’s the limit now.”

She dropped her chin to my shoulder, completely relaxed against me.

My hands sought hers as I looked up. The stars were fading against the dawn. “The sky huh, Skylar?”

She let go of me. “Yeah, don’t call me that.”

I had her in my arms, backing her up against the side of the bus, before she could make her escape. “I like it.”

She sighed and tried to step out of my arms.

“Fine… fine, I’ll stick with Murphy for now, but it won’t always be that way.”

When she stopped pushing against my hold, I leaned down and kissed her on the forehead. “One day, Murphy, you’ll melt when I call you by your real name. I’m gonna love it when you do.”

I felt her knees give and pulled her closer to me, molding her to me as I captured her mouth. Her hands fisted the back of my shirt, pulling me harder against her. I groaned into her mouth, needing so much more from her than a stolen kiss in the dark. The way her body trembled against mine made my heart hammer painfully against my chest. The sound of a car backfiring close by made us both jump, breaking the kiss. It did nothing to help the way my body craved to be inside of hers.

Murphy deserved more than me shoving her up against the side of a bus, taking her like she was no more than a body to use to fulfill my needs.

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