GOLDI: A Sexy Shifter Fairytale Romance (Sexy Shifter Fairytale Romances Book 3) by Jessica Aspen

Author:Jessica Aspen
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: paranormal romance series for adults, alpha shifter, fairy tale romance books for adults, fairytale shifter, paranormal romance book, sexy shifter romance
Publisher: Abracadabra Publishing
Published: 2016-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Zeke drove down the hill, trying not to focus on how quiet Goldi was in the passenger seat. Focusing instead on other things. Practical things. Things that had nothing to do with sex and women and heartbreak. Like, should he stop for gas before driving up the mountain again? Should he get a more efficient car and save energy? Should he put on his blinker or not.

Anything to ignore the old, familiar ache taking up residence inside his chest.

“Drop me off by the bank, my truck is there.” Goldi turned her face away from him, as if the rows of pine and spruce flying by were fascinating scenery she’d never seen before.

He smothered the desire to turn the truck around, drive back to his house, and tie her to his bed. “Whatever,” he said, not wanting to believe she wasn’t staying with him.

After she’d blown his mind with the sex and confessions, they’d showered, gotten redressed, and finished the warmed-up breakfast. The entire time, he’d been his best, brightest self, working hard to get her to stay or even to commit to seeing him again. But she wouldn’t. And she wouldn’t say why.

To the growing misery inside his chest, it was high school all over again. The girl of his dreams walking away without a second glance after dealing a vicious sucker punch.

He pulled up in front of the bank. She was out of the truck before he’d turned the engine off and opened his door. Getting out, he came around to her side and attempted to give her a hug, but she resisted, and it was stiff and cold and awkward.

“Let me help you with the bank,” he said. “I have the money.”

“No.” She shook her head and stared past him down the street. “I’d feel obligated to you, and I won’t have that.”

Damn her, he wanted it. He wanted to tie her down with obligations and ropes and babies. Tie her down so she’d never leave him again.

“Bye, Zeke.” She came up on her tiptoes and brushed her lips against his. He reached out and pulled her in close, savoring her feel, her smell, her taste. He hung on tight, feeling like a needy idiot when she pried his hands off, climbed into her old, rusty truck, and drove down the street without a backward glance.

Anguish took over, and he panted, clenching his fists—willing himself to stay human.

The first time Goldi had left, he’d denned up in his room and stopped eating. He’d quit his job, dropped out of school, and spoken only in grunts. He’d done nothing but hang out online on his second-hand computer, until he couldn’t pay the internet bill and his old man had kicked him out. He’d moved into an old mine in the side of a mountain for a month. And thought seriously of going wild forever.

It had nearly killed him.

It had been the making of him.

He’d come back motivated and finished school, determined to be richer than her father could ever hope to be.

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