Jett's Guard: Bastards and Badges by Andi Rhodes

Author:Andi Rhodes [Rhodes, Andi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blue Journey Publishing, LLC
Published: 2020-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

13

Emma

“You okay over there?”

My palms are sweaty, my stomach is in knots, and I’m pretty sure I’m going to throw up, so no, I am not okay.

“Peachy,” I say instead as I rub my hands up and down my thighs.

Jett chuckles at my half-hearted response and keeps his attention on the road. We’re going grocery shopping, which for some people, that might be a simple task that life requires, but for me, it’s torture. At least this time. Normally, I go to the same supermarket, no exceptions. I do that because it keeps my anxiety to a minimum, and it’s the same one I’ve been going to my entire life so it feels safer than others.

Today, however, Jett insisted that we go to a grocery store that I’ve never been to before. I tried to get out of it. I complained of being sick, told him I had a fever. It would have worked, too, if he hadn’t been such a damn decent guy and came over to check on me. He took one look at me and declared me ‘just fucking fine’ and now I’m sitting in his Impala wondering how the hell I could ever have thought him decent.

“I told you I was going to push, that this wouldn’t be easy,” he reminds me.

“Yeah, well, yay for you.”

Jett remains quiet, and I glance at him out of the corner of my eye. He’s sporting a smile, and I’m torn between wanting to reach out and smack it off of his smug face and a sudden urge to trace the indentation of his dimple with a fingertip. I let my eyes roam down his body and take in the ink that peeks out from the sleeve of his T-shirt. My mouth goes dry when I see his thigh bunching beneath his jeans as he shifts his foot from the gas pedal to the brake.

I try to remember that I asked him for this, that I wanted to rejoin the land of the living, but it’s difficult. I should have asked Sierra to help me. At least with her, I wouldn’t have the added frustration of attraction. I’m damaged, not dead, after all.

“Are we almost there?” I ask, the words sounding breathless.

“Almost.”

I avert my stare when he looks at me, hoping like hell that he can’t tell what I’m thinking. He glances between me and the road in front of us, and there are questions in his eyes. Questions I definitely don’t want to answer.

When Jett showed up to check on me, I took one look at him and my entire body tingled. And not from shock or anger that he didn’t believe me when I said I was sick. Jett is sex personified, and as much as I try to ignore my attraction to him, it’s always there, tempting me, taunting me. Problem with that is I can’t act on it. It’s been over two years since I last had sex, and while I enjoyed it, I somehow know that anything I’ve experienced before won’t come close to what Jett could do.

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