Her Fallen Protector by Nichole Severn

Author:Nichole Severn [Severn, Nichole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781633750999
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-01-28T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The feelings she had for the man on the other side of that door weren’t her own. Who in their right mind fell for a person they’d only met three days ago? The connection, the attraction, both had been planted long before she’d ever met him. Had to be. But they felt real all the same. Felt like a part of her.

The shower melted the grime away, but her gut stayed twisted. Leaning her hands against one wall of the shower, Vdarra sank into the water running over her head and down her shoulders. She’d changed back in that alley, became someone she didn’t even know existed until a few hours ago, and every cell in her body tingled with the echo of pain burning through her veins.

She reached for the shampoo. Distraction.

The prickling slithered down through her shoulders, into her fingertips. She shook her hand out then rubbed small, firm circles with her thumb into the center of her palm. The tingly sensation receded, but not entirely. There was a solution for that.

No.

She couldn’t go down that path again. Not with him.

Her hair foamed the more she dug her fingernails into her scalp. Why the hell did he have to shut down every preconceived notion she had about him? Watching over her, understanding she needed time to adjust to a life she’d once known, helping her. The least he could do was get angry, give her and her stupid molecules a reason not to crave his touch.

She dove under the spray to rinse then shut off the water with a hard twist. Climbing out of the shower, she inhaled sharply as the cool breeze from her air conditioner sent a chill across her skin. She couldn’t complain. Her body had been burning since the moment she set eyes on Jacob. Moving to Antarctica might fix that. Freezing temperatures. Distance from the one man she craved the most.

The towel she used to dry herself nearly scraped off the first layer of skin down her calves. Dammit. She couldn’t live like this.

Tendrils of sound from the television filtered through the door.

The seams in her shirt protested as she jerked it over her head. Her jeans stuck to her still damp skin, but she couldn’t take it anymore. He’d done something to her and she was going to fix it. Now. She pulled her wet hair back with a tie and charged through the bedroom into the living room.

Feet propped up on her coffee table, Jacob rested with one arm behind his head, the other draped over the delicious abs beneath his T-shirt, his eyes closed. Her mouth went dry. Every word she’d rehearsed vanished from the tip of her tongue. All too easily, she saw herself coaxing those green eyes open by straddling his hips, following the “V” carved into his abs to its apex. Would their second time together eclipse the first? She took another step forward, avoiding the creaking floorboard she’d asked her landlord to fix the moment she moved into her home.

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