First Verse by Emily Snow

Author:Emily Snow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: second chance, summer romance, new adult

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Kinsey was quiet the entire trip to the nearest Target and back and didn’t speak up until I pulled through a carwash to vacuum the grass out of my truck. Climbing out, she stretched her arms and legs before padding over to me with a determined look on her face.

She sat on the brick platform that housed the coin slot. “I don’t want to lose what I’ve got with your grandmother by sleeping with you,” she blurted out.

I handed her a couple quarters, and she dropped them in the slot beside her. “So you’ve thought about me and you?”

She tucked a strand of blonde hair behind her ear. “Well, no shit. You parade around the house with no shirt, you look at me like you’re still picturing me naked, and then that kiss.” She took a deep, shuddering breath, but before she could continue, someone yelled out her name. Her body went taut. I frowned over her shoulder at the motherfucker in the man-tank and oversized cargo shorts who was leering at us from one of the carwash bays.

“Great,” she mumbled under her breath. She shimmied off the bricks. “I’m just going to wait in the truck.”

I stopped her, squeezing her hip lightly before she had a chance to run away. “What’s wrong?”

She cleared her throat—a nervous, gritty sound—that made me completely stop what I was doing. I hung the vacuum hose back on the holster, waiting for her answer. Finally, she lifted her shoulders. “I’m fine. It’s just Ryan. Some … idiot I went out with once, and—”

But she sure as hell didn’t look fine when he jogged over. If I didn’t dislike him before, I instantly hated him the moment he let out a low whistle and said, “Jesus, girl, I’ve tried to call you all summer.”

“I’ve been busy with work?”

“Still at the nursery?” he asked, and she moved her head in a gesture that wasn’t exactly positive or negative confirmation. I didn’t need to know a damn thing about their history to figure out she wanted nothing to do with this guy, and the fact he was staring at her tits with me right beside her just solidified he was a shit-stain.

I laid a possessive hand on the small of her back, which he immediately noticed because his eyes hardened. Good. “You ready to get back to my place, Angel?” I kissed her forehead and victory pumped through me when she lifted her gaze to mine.

“Yes.” Relief and gratitude laced her sweet voice. She smiled apologetically at Ryan. “It was good seeing you again, Ryan. I—”

“Is this who you’re fucking now?” he demanded incredulously. I started an internal debate over which spot on his pretty face I wanted to punch the most. Before Kinsey had a chance to speak, he sneered and addressed me directly. “Wrap it up, brother. This bitch has been all over the place.”

The nose, I finally decided. Definitely his straight, pretty boy nose. I strayed from violence—my mother had taught me better—but that

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