Give Up the Ghost by Kelly Moran

Author:Kelly Moran [Moran, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled;Covet;paranormal;romance;PNR;ghost;spirit;Paranormal Romance;Ghost Town;Phantoms;Doppelganger;Friends to Lovers;Best friends;Arizona;Paranormal Investigation;Kelly Moran;Give Up the Ghost;Ghosts
ISBN: 9781943336265
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Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2014-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Paul felt her heart pounding to the same frantic beat as his own, her breaths rasping against his ear. Pride surged. He’d done that. He made her come apart and explode beneath him, just as he’d always hoped. Every damn emotion he’d ever experienced with regards to her tore through his gut, made him quake. Intensified.

He lifted his head and looked down at her. So fucking beautiful.

“It’s always the quiet ones,” she said through a smile. “Wow, Paul. Been storing that a long time?”

He grinned, because he was so damn happy, he might’ve died. “Yes.”

Her smile slipped a fraction. “We shouldn’t have done that.”

And there went his happy.

He rolled off of her and tossed the condom in the bedside trash. Pressing his palms to his eyes he tried to come up with something to say that didn’t conflict with his internal I told you so. “Damn it, Kerry,” was all he could muster.

She straddled him with lightning speed and lowered his hands to link their fingers by his head. The grassy-green of her irises reminded him of all the times he looked into those eyes and wanted to beg for more.

“Don’t mistake my words, Paul. I don’t regret what we just did. How could I? I wanted this, too.”

Happy was making a comeback. “Then what did you mean?”

“I don’t want to hurt you.” But I will, went unsaid.

“Kerry, about the photos…” But he couldn’t follow through on the thought. How was he supposed to tell her he stared at her image a hundred times a day, trying equally to quell this want for her and desensitize himself at the same time? He hadn’t allowed the truth inside his own head before.

The L word hovered in the space between them and she still wasn’t ready to hear his declaration. He could see it in the way she nibbled her lip, the deer-in-headlights look in her eyes. She wasn’t ready—or may never be—to give up her career for him. Adjust her stance on family…for them.

“You should’ve told me,” she whispered.

Yeah, he probably should have. But they’d just wind up in the same place at the same impasse. To hell with it. “I love you, Kerry. Have for a long time and it’s not going to change. The point is, you know now.”

The slight shake of her head was answer enough. “What are we going to do?”

She meant about Phantoms, so he went with the easy answer. “We’ll keep it quiet until you decide what you want to do with the words I just gave you.”

“You’re my best friend, Paul.”

Was that what worried her? “And I always will be.”

He read the look on her face as easily as he read the front page. This was no news story, though. This was all going to end. Their friendship. The possibility of a relationship. Their careers. He truly believed the doppelganger threat was over. It had to be after the sinkhole. So it wasn’t her own mortality keeping her away. It was the mess inside her own head.

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