Insatiable by Lucy Lambert

Author:Lucy Lambert [Lambert, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pub Yourself Press
Published: 2015-06-28T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

QUINN

I couldn’t get that stupid bartender out of my head. She’d seen me get up to go and swooped in on Ward like a vulture on some tasty piece of meat.

Well, more specifically, I couldn’t get the image of that bartender’s cleavage out of my mind, and the way it popped when she leaned over the bar like that.

I’d wanted to tell her to take a hike, but couldn’t. Not after Ward had the nerve to smile at me like that. Like he didn’t even care.

I marched up the street, looking for a taxi. Of course the taxis never came to this neighborhood much. Everyone here owned an Audi or three. Who needed a taxi?

You just go have fun with that redhead, then, I thought with a mental sneer. I started wondering how bad things would be if I went to Ms. Spencer tomorrow and told her I wanted off the Phoenix Software account.

Probably pretty bad. But beer from the bar swam in my head, and I let the fantasy entertain me for a while.

Normally I didn’t do much drinking. I ended up taking my work home so often that I needed my head as clear as possible. Well, that, and I usually looked after the kids for Mary at least once a week.

I turned back once and looked toward the corner pub. What had he meant with all that talk about discipline? He’d gotten nostalgic in there, turning into someone I could relate to.

It was just another one of his tactics to try and get me in the sack, I figured. We’d come so close back on the third floor of the brownstone and he hadn’t want to give in so quickly.

I couldn’t help wondering what it might like to be with him. Especially not with the warm fuzz from the beer filling my head. He knew how to kiss. He knew how to use his mouth. The way he touched me brought my body alive with desire.

And we hadn’t even taken off any clothes. I couldn’t help fantasizing about being held in his strong arms, both our bodies slick with sweat as we slid together.

The thing was, I knew I wanted that to happen. Some parts of me more than others. And at this point all my reasons not to no longer rang true, but hollow instead. Yet, in spite of that, I’d turned him down again.

Better be careful. Soon enough I bet he’ll stop trying.

Wasn’t that what I wanted, though? Him to stop trying, to leave me alone and in peace?

I thought so. I used to think so.

What I really wanted to know was how he managed to hit so close to the mark with his questions. But how could he possibly know anything about my past?

Maybe the two of us were opposite sides of one coin. He responded to his own inner turmoil, burying it with a never-ending parade of beautiful women. I responded to mine by shutting men out before they could get too close.

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