Fast Lane by Margot Radcliffe

Author:Margot Radcliffe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-09T13:06:39+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

COLE SHOULD HAVE been in Spain. But then besides the death of his brother, he wasn’t really a man who particularly dealt in recriminations. He’d left Blair the morning after they’d spent an incredible night in bed and literally thought of nothing since. But the sex hadn’t been all he’d thought about—it had been this too—the easy way they’d found together so quickly. That’s what had truly drawn him back to Sonoma, and that for the first time since the accident he’d felt like his old self.

He’d never considered himself a particularly deep or thoughtful person, but something had happened to him after that night with Blair. In the morning, he’d followed the routine he’d used for years and left before she got up and was gone before having to say an awkward goodbye.

And yet, he’d flown across the globe for another night with her.

It was fucking nuts, but just looking at her made some of the pain go away. He didn’t know why or how, but being here around her family, around Blair, who was carrying around pain herself—they’d formed a kinship of sorts. And being with her...he’d had a lot of sex, but it’d never felt as unbelievable as it had with Blair.

And when he thought about how long it would be until he had a significant portion of time off to come see her, realizing that it would be months and she could be with some other loser by then—he’d made the decision. Seeing her smile at him told him it had been the right one. But he knew, too, that this had to be the last time. He couldn’t lead her on into thinking this could ever be something. Because it couldn’t. For a lot of simple logistical reasons, but mostly because he didn’t deserve to be happy with a woman. Not when his brother was cold in the ground and would never know the joy of a wife and family and home. The very thing he’d wanted to quit racing to find, and that first Cole had taken away and then racing had irrevocably.

“How did you find me anyway?” Blair asked, bringing him back from the edge of the gripping despair he’d battled since the accident.

He cleared his throat. “You weren’t in the tasting room but I saw your car out front and reckoned you’d be back here making wine or playing with dirt, whatever it is you do all day to create grape-y masterpieces. I just followed lights and sounds until I found you.”

Blair raised her eyebrow. “Grape-y masterpieces?”

“The wine,” he told her, slowly, as if she were a child.

“I’m not going to engage,” she muttered, shaking her head at him. “How do you like this wine?”

“As you know, I’m not huge on whites but to be honest with you, Ms. Sandoval, I think I liked whatever you gave me the last time better.”

“Yeah, definitely a better year,” she told him, taking another sip from her glass. “But this isn’t bad.”

“Hell no, not bad at all,” Cole agreed even though his opinion on wine didn’t count for diddly.

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