Fall Away by Zoe York

Author:Zoe York [York, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: military romance, romance series, SEAL
Publisher: Zoe York
Published: 2015-02-22T16:00:00+00:00

— EIGHT —

The feelings inside Gaby couldn’t be named with words she recognized—they were too sharp and ugly. She didn’t like them. She wanted them to go away. But if she opened her mouth, they’d spill out in ways she couldn’t predict. And Trick just kept going, pushing and poking and making the feelings bigger. Meaner.

“The best was this girl in high school. Do you hate her, too?”

“I don’t hate Lila,” she snapped. “At all. I wish I could be more relaxed like you guys about this. I know I’m a prude, okay? I know that I’m jealous and that’s totally unfair because we don’t have a relationship. I get in my head that it’s just things people do with their bodies, but in my heart…those things are a big deal. I’ve only had sex with four guys, and I’ve thought that maybe I was in love with each of them.”

Dark thunder clouds gathered across Trick’s face. “First of all, we do have a relationship. We’ve had four amazing dates—”

“Three dates,” she whispered, unable to hold herself back from correcting him.

“You’re forgetting shawarma.”

“Oh.”

“And maybe last night wasn’t amazing, but I was tired and my arm hurt. I’m sorry about that.” He rubbed his chest.

“Are you okay?” She took a tentative step in his direction but stopped when he pinned her with a glare.

“I’m fine. You’ve been in love with four people?”

“Well, I thought I might love them.”

“That’s hard to compete with.”

“It’s not a competition.” She took another slow step.

He sighed and closed his eyes. “It should be. I’m not a forever kind of guy.”

“Wait, so you…what? Tell me all that stuff about other women and then just change your mind? I’m not worth it?”

“Oh for fuck’s sake, Gaby!” Trick didn’t yell, exactly, but he wasn’t calm any longer. “You’re worth the fucking moon. But if you only have relationships with guys you can see yourself sharing a white picket fence with, then I can’t lead you on.”

“I don’t think you’re that guy, Trick!” She did yell, pretty much, but calm wasn’t really her forte at the best of times. She was grumpy and mercurial and hadn’t been trained by the US Navy to be cool under pressure. She was toast under pressure. “I was trying to work my way up to just having a fling with you, okay?”

“A fling.” He glowered at her and crossed his arms. How the hell was she supposed to understand that body language? It told her nothing.

“Like I said, I want to be more relaxed. But up in the hills today…it was too emotional.” She brought her fingers to her lips and held them there for a minute. “When you kiss me…I haven’t figured out how to disengage my heart from the experience yet.”

He moved closer, staring at her. “I don’t want you to.”

“But you’re not a picket fence kind of guy,” she whispered.

“Yeah.” A muscle twitched along his jaw. “We’ve got ourselves in a real pickle.”

“So….”

He exhaled. “So let’s get some dinner? This sounds like a problem for not right now.

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