Hawk (Sex and Bullets Book 2) by Jo Raven

Author:Jo Raven [Raven, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-06-27T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Layla

I’m nervous.

Ridiculous, I know. Nervous about taking a bath with Hawk, the guy I’ve been having wild sex with for months and months. The guy I had sex with only yesterday. The guy I’m supposed to take care of in the bath so he won’t drown on his own.

But lots has changed in the last couple of days, at least for me. I’m not the same girl I was before the nightmare at the warehouse.

My feelings for Hawk are not the same. They are burning me from the inside out; they are eating up my heart.

Because I gave my heart to him, and he obviously doesn’t want it.

Touching him isn’t the same anymore. Every touch, every sensation has taken on new meaning for me. It pierces me through and through, it changes me.

And it hurts me because for him obviously nothing had changed. Oh, I saved him. He likes me. He’s proud of me. But it’s just sex to him. We’re just friends with benefits. Nothing has changed.

Of course nothing has changed—only now he doesn’t need to worry about knocking me up and having to do something about it. Not that he ever had any long-term plans for me.

I mean, who am I anyway? Just a girl he saved one horrible night from humiliation and kept fucking ever since.

Deliciously fucking, true, dirtily fucking, oh God, but that doesn’t change the fundamental truth of the shallowness of our relationship.

Yet, when I open the bedroom door and stand there, looking at him where he’s slumped inside the sunken tub, his beautiful body bared, the dark tattoos of roses climbing his chest like a briar, the thorns leaving bloody trails… I don’t know if I can accept it.

Accept we’re back where we started. Ignore my feelings for him.

It doesn’t matter. He needs my help—just like he did in the warehouse. Those brutal friends of his would probably hurt him worse if they tried to help him clean himself, and frankly the thought of another woman helping him makes me stomach roil.

Help him. Make sure he’s okay. And then see what to do next. We’re in hiding right now, and I don’t even want to think about where we go from here.

Besides, I’m dead on my feet, and I stink. I also need to clean up, and eat, and rest.

“Layla?” he rasps, lifting his head, gazing at me. His eyes are heavy-lidded. He looks drowsy.

Better get in there with him.

So ignoring the way my blood heats up at his steady gaze, at the glimpse of his strong, tall body laid out in all its bare glory in the clear water, I step away from the door and walk toward the tub.

As sacrifices go, it’s okay. This isn’t a hardship, not by any stretch, and yet… And yet my heart will let me know the price later.

***

He’s watching me. He doesn’t move a muscle, but his eyes glimmer under his pale lashes as I step into the warm water. I’m going slowly, slightly light-headed and afraid to slip, and his gaze glides over my curves like a hot caress.

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