Ian by Chris Keniston

Author:Chris Keniston [Keniston, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Indie House Publishing
Published: 2017-10-24T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

"Men," she muttered before the filters in her mind could stop her. The second she heard her own words her eyes almost popped out of her head and her free hand flew to her mouth in an effort to stop her from saying anything else stupid.

Based on the hint of a smile teasing at the corners of Ian's mouth, Kelly was convinced she had completely succeeded in making a total fool of herself.

Letting her hand drop, she opted to scratch the dog’s ears with both hands. "I didn't mean that the way it sounded."

"What did you mean?"

Her heart racing at double time, she forced herself to lift her gaze from the dog to Ian. No hint of a smile remained. He continued to slowly run his hand along the dog’s side but kept his eyes steady on her. Right now she'd pay big bucks to know what he was thinking.

Silence hung between them until it was clear Ian had no intention of saying anything else until she answered. Sucking in a long breath and then blowing it out in resignation, she shrugged. "Let's just say my last relationship didn't go so well and I'm probably better off with the dog."

"You don't really believe that, do you?"

She lifted her shoulder in a lazy shrug. "It's hard."

"Which part?"

"I've never been the skinny, pretty girl. Growing up, on the playground during school, Grace and Becky were the pretty ones, the normal ones." She glanced at Ian's direction, noticing a small frown forming between his brows, but he said nothing. "At first I remember parents, neighbors, even teachers sometimes saying I just had to grow out of my baby fat."

The frown remained on Ian's face, but this time he bobbed his chin in a curt nod.

"Then I," she swallowed searching for the right words, "blossomed. And I started getting lots of attention, but even as young as I was, I knew it was for all the wrong reasons."

This time Ian's mouth pressed into a thin line as he considered her words.

"By high school everybody had filled out more proportionately. I wasn't such a standout anymore, but I was still the only curvy girl in class." She huffed a halfhearted chuckle. "At least I wasn't told I had baby fat anymore. I'd become curvy and big boned."

"A lot of women pay big bucks for curvy."

She nodded. "True, but still, we always want what we don't have. Becky spent most of her adult life telling me she'd kill for my curves, and I'd have killed to be looked at first for anything besides my figure." Kelly wasn't going to tell him that she also would've killed to have had a good honorable man like DJ Farraday fall head over boot heels in love with her no matter what she looked like. "Anyhow, in the long run I finally realized most men are jerks." She winced. "Sorry, no offense intended."

One side of his mouth tipped up in a Farraday smile. "No offense taken."

"And I learned to recognize the nice normal ones.

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