Hearts on Fire by Julia Gabriel

Author:Julia Gabriel [Gabriel, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-5378-8784-5
Publisher: Julia Gabriel

Chapter 17

“Are you hungry?”

Becca tilted her head back to look up at Jack. Right on cue, her stomach rumbled. She was thankful the music drowned out the sound.

“Yeah, kind of,” she answered. “Dinner was good but …”

“A little too fancy for my taste,” Jack finished her sentence. She gave him a smile.

“When this song is over, why don’t we go get something to eat?” he added.

“Oh you don’t have to do that. You can just take me home.” She glanced around the dance floor. “Or I could go home with my parents. That’s probably easiest.”

“I would never take a date home hungry.”

“Yeah well, you weren’t raised by wolves, right?”

Immediately, she wished she could swallow the words back. She tilted her head down, but not before seeing his adam’s apple bob as he swallowed hard.

“I’m sorry. I wasn’t thinking.” You’re never thinking when you need to be. That was the joke his mom was fond of making; Becca had heard of it from her own mother. Way to go. Remind him that his mother is dying. Real swift, Becca. “You can just take me home.” She leaned out of his arms, but he pulled her back in and bent his head to her ear.

“I think we’ve fulfilled our filial duty here. Unless you’re really digging this music.”

He was trying to make her laugh, and there was something incredibly sexy about it. Brandon had never tried to make her laugh. On the contrary, she’d always been worried that she would laugh at the wrong thing around him. It was nearly impossible to predict what would piss him off. She didn’t miss him.

And what else was sexy? The feel of Jack’s body against hers. Hard, strong, made for rescuing people. And his sun kissed hair in a room full of grey. His breath on the lobe of her ear, sending unvoiced whispers down her spine.

But Jack Wolfe was way out of her league. She didn’t miss Brandon, but those were the kind of guys that were attainable for her. Jack might poke fun at the “nerdy fraternity” he’d belonged to, but at least he’d gone to college and gotten into law school. Becca was lucky she had enough days in attendance after suspensions to graduate from St. Caroline High.

She felt his lips brush her ear again.

“Becca, I asked you to this event because our parents wanted me to. But I’m asking you to go get something to eat with me because I want to.” His hand slid from her lower back, over her hip—for a mere instant—and to her hand, which he clasped. “How does Nick’s sound?”

The sensation of his fingers threading through hers made the whisperings in her body grow louder. “Nick’s Burger Barn? Sounds like there could be a milkshake in it for me.”

“There is. Any flavor you want.”

The song they had mostly stopped dancing to a few minutes ago finally ended—and not a moment too soon. Because that was quite possibly the sexiest thing anyone had ever said to her. And if she didn’t put some space between their bodies soon, her dress was going to melt right off.

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