From Storm To Love: A Best Friends To Lovers Romance (Romance On The Road Book 1) by Denean Dawson

Author:Denean Dawson [Dawson, Denean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Yelena

It was almost dawn, and there was still no sign of our rescuers. We called Jay on the sat phone not long after we had sorted out our gear, and he had assured us that the Colombian Coast Guard was on their way to our coordinates. As the night wore on though, I became less and less sure they were really coming. We found some water bottles in with our stuff, but we had eaten the last of our Clif bars the day before. At least Carlos had managed to start a small fire with some gas he siphoned from the now-useless Jeep, and the lighter he always kept on him. I had asked him years ago why he always had a lighter even though he didn’t smoke. “It’s for emergencies,” he’d told me. I was beyond grateful for his practicality as we huddled against the Jeep, warming our hands near the timid flames Carlos had coaxed from his pile of twigs.

After Carlos had finally confided in me about the situation with his parents, we just sat gazing at the stars and enjoying each other’s company. Neither of us had said anything about our intense sexual encounter though. I could tell Carlos was mulling something over, and I didn’t want to press him too soon. As long as I’d known him, though he had dated a lot of women, he’d never cheated. I suspected he was having a crisis of conscience. I desperately wanted to know what he’d meant when he told me I was everything to him. I knew he loved me, but I hadn’t thought it was in a romantic way. And if he did love me like that, why hadn’t he broken up with Jean already? He had never had difficulty ending a relationship before; I’d seen it happen countless times. I flinched when I felt Carlos put his arm around my shoulder and it pulled me back to the present.

I lifted his arm off me and turned to face him. “Look, what we just did...that meant something to me, but it’s not going to happen again until you break up with Jean...if that’s what you’re planning to do.”

“Of course it is! Yelena I...I was going to break up with her weeks ago, but then she told me she was coming on the trip with us and...It sounds lame now, but I knew she’d make my life a living hell and I just...I just thought it would be better if I waited.”

“Better if you waited? For who?!” I was indignant. He’s been thinking about this for weeks? At least all his mixed signals over the course of our trip made sense now.

“I don’t know. I’m sorry, Yel. I’ve made a mess of things. It’s just that, when I thought you were hurt, and then you were okay...I was so relieved. I wasn’t thinking. I never intended to cheat on Jean, but I couldn’t stop myself from kissing you. It just felt right. Like something that’s been missing from my life has finally clicked into place.

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