If I Fall... by Jennifer Christy

Author:Jennifer Christy
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: angel, angel demon, angel fiction, angel stories, angel fantasy, angel battle, angel and love

Chapter 14

Matthew, freshly showered and smelling faintly of sage and pine, picked JD up an hour later on his motorcycle. Before he helped her onto the seat behind him, he asked, “are you an adventurous eater?”

“A what?” she said.

He rephrased his question, “do you like to try new foods?”

“Sure,” she said uncertainty, which made him chuckle.

“Ok, I’m going to hold you to that,” he said in a teasing tone.

Twenty minutes later they were sitting across from each other at the Café Diablo on the outskirts of Torrey on Highway 24. Matthew extended his fork towards her with a bite sized morsel of the adventurous food he had asked her about earlier. JD declined.

“C’mon, it’s free-range rattlesnake,” he urged.

JD peered at Matthew over her forkful of domesticated poultry, trying to keep a straight face as she quipped, “So is my chicken and it doesn’t slither on the ground.” They both laughed.

“You have a nice laugh,” he told her. JD bit the insides of her lips together to keep from smiling as she ducked her head and felt her cheeks warm. Matthew reached across the table and with his index finger lifted her chin, “and a nice smile,” he added. She was frozen beneath his brief touch as he gazed into her eyes. He leaned away but held her gaze with his own. She didn’t know what kinds of thoughts were pulsing behind his eyes, eyes that at once seemed so inviting and so mischievous at the same time. Her heart and head were at odds. She liked being with him, he made her feel special and wanted, yet those good feelings were tainted with guilt that she was crossing professional lines with him, or at the very least, flirting with crossing those lines. Gramps would be furious.

It was a precarious balancing act she found herself on, conscious of the fact that he was off limits while he was under her employ. If it went bad, if Gramps found out, if Rick found out, she could be jerked off the project faster than Gramps’ blood pressure could go up.

You’re too impulsive and you don’t think things through, Gramps had scolded her once in front of the entire office. Everyone got scolded at least once by Gramps, so Rick was very sympathetic to her and went to her defense afterwards. She didn’t even remember what the issue was about, but the scolding and the humiliation that followed, she’d remember forever.

But, it didn’t change her. When she saw something she wanted, she couldn’t get it out of her mind until she got it. She had wanted this project so badly and had pestered Rick about it until he relented and went to her grandfather to get the job for her. Now, gazing at Matthew, she felt that old, familiar feelings of longing. She wanted him.

“You are very beautiful,” he said softly. She hadn’t the slightest notion of how she was supposed to respond to that. No one had every called her beautiful before. No

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