Forbidden Love by Kendall Ryan

Author:Kendall Ryan [Ryan, Kendall]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
Amazon: B00JG6QP6W
Barnesnoble: B00JG6QP6W
Goodreads: 21843282
Publisher: Kendall Ryan
Published: 2014-03-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

The next morning Cohen stood guard while I dashed inside my apartment to grab a change of clothes and my laptop. We didn’t see the bat, but I was glad to have him with me just the same.

He didn’t have class until later, so I thanked him for the previous night, and he headed back upstairs to make coffee, while I began the twenty-minute walk to campus.

Despite only getting a few hours of sleep and overindulging on wine, I felt more well-rested than I usually did. Cohen’s bed was ridiculously comfortable. And I felt safe with him there. I was used to living alone, but that didn’t mean that occasionally I wasn’t woken in the night by an unknown noise and was unable to get back to sleep. And was he an absolute gentleman—staying on his own side and pretty much ignoring me completely. I’d slept like a baby in Cohen’s bed. Which was strange, since I made it a point not to stay over with guys I slept with. I might fall asleep after sex, but I’d always wake in the middle of the night and slip out of bed unnoticed. Maybe that was why I’d been comfortable staying with Cohen, because we hadn’t been intimate. I shrugged the thought away.

I spent the entire day working in the library on my research paper, only stopping for coffee refills and to grab a sandwich from a deli across the street. By six o’clock I was hungry again and in need of a long, hot soak in my jetted tub.

I secured my laptop bag across my chest and set off for the walk home. I checked my phone for messages again, hoping to have an update from my landlord about the bat situation. I was scrolling through text messages when I collided against something solid. I let out a groan and quickly looked up to see who—or what—I’d run into.

It was Cohen. He was out for a run with that damn dog. Bob. It was panting loudly and wagging its tail.

“Hey, Eliza.” Cohen reached out and steadied my shoulders.

“Liz,” I huffed, righting myself.

“Sorry, Bob got excited when he saw you.” Cohen pulled back on the leash, tightening it to hold the dog back from me.

“No—my fault. I was trying to see if I had any messages from our landlord.”

“Oh, he stopped by today. We couldn’t find the bat, but we sealed up your chimney flue.”

“We?”

“I didn’t have class at the time, so I helped him. You have a really nice place, by the way.”

“Oh, thanks.”

We stared at each other for a few seconds. He looked adorably sexy in his loose-fitting gym shorts and vintage band tee.

“So the bat could still be in there?” I dodged Bob’s overeager advance toward me.

Cohen tugged his leash to keep him in line. Bob sat on the ground at our feet. “Could be. But he probably got out the same way he got in.”

“Okay. Well, thanks. I guess I get to sleep in my own bed tonight.

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