Her Other Secret by Dimon HelenKay

Author:Dimon, HelenKay [Dimon, HelenKay]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2019-06-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Hansen managed to get through the whole day without getting into more trouble. He texted Ben on and off to check on Kerrie. Her turnaround made zero sense to him. The way she clung to him . . . not what he expected.

At lunch, Tessa had explained the pressure Judson exerted and how Kerrie likely felt trapped. Hansen listened, half understood. Mostly, he stared at Tessa. Watched her talk and gesture. The energy. The memory of those little moans that vibrated in the back of her throat when she came.

Sweet hell, he needed to get home to her.

He swung through Ben’s office for one last check. The storm had blown north of Whitaker. Rain pummeled them, and winds howled, but the damaging center of it missed them. The gray sky still shrouded the island in darkness, but lights flickered on across the island as the electricity rebooted.

Ben glanced up from the stack of papers in front of him as Hansen walked in. “Where’s Tessa?”

“Home.”

Ben stood up and went over to the whiteboard he’d set up on the side of his office. “Do you realize how easy you say that word?”

Realized. Panicked about it. Tried to pretend he didn’t say it or feel it. Now planned on ignoring it. “She’s staying with me. You’re the one who kicked her out of her house.”

Ben shot him a satisfied smile. “Uh-huh.”

“You know we’re grown-ups, right?”

Ben froze in the middle of attaching Judson’s photo to the top of the board. “You know you’re defensive, right?”

Well, shit. Hansen dropped into the chair in front of Ben’s desk. “It’s too easy having her there.”

Whatever Ben had planned on doing, he stopped. He leaned against the board and watched Hansen. “I’m confused. You’re saying that’s a problem or no?”

“You know my plan was to come to Whitaker, recuperate, calm the fuck down, then go back home.” It sounded so easy broken out like that. It proved to be anything but.

“You never specifically said it, but it was clear to me you were trying to get over something.” Ben didn’t sound like he bought into the concept.

Unspent adrenaline poured through Hansen. He tipped his chair to balance on the back legs. It was either that or get up and pace around.

This confusion, muddying everything, adding in feelings, he knew it would all lead to a bad place. The kind of place where he stumbled around and fought to stay emotionally closed off but failed, and Tessa got hurt. That was the one thing—the only thing—he couldn’t tolerate. Causing her pain. But he felt pulled and what he wanted got jumbled up with the fact he planned to leave.

What a mess.

“Where does Tessa fit in?” He asked because he really wanted to know.

Ben’s eyebrows lifted. “You’re asking me?”

Yeah, good point. Hansen groaned as he rubbed his hands through his hair and linked his fingers behind his head. “Things got complicated. I wanted easy.”

“Life doesn’t work that way.” Ben dropped the papers back on his desk and went around to his chair.

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