Just What I Needed (The Need You Series) by Lorelei James

Author:Lorelei James [James, Lorelei]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-08-01T22:00:00+00:00

Eleven

WALKER

I’d managed to be patient on Tuesday when I’d gotten a sweet but cryptic text from Trinity telling me the piece was going well and she planned an all-nighter.

I left a voice mail midafternoon on Wednesday asking about her dinner plans. I sent her a brief text message too, knowing not everyone listened to their cell phone voice messages. In fact, in the fifteen years my mother owned a cell phone, she’d never set up voice mail, deeming it “too Technicolor,” and I hadn’t asked again.

After no word from Trinity on Wednesday night, I woke Thursday morning to seven text messages, sent between three and five a.m., each more rambling than the last. The texts had both amused and concerned me. Especially the comment about her sucking at flirty sexts but being ready to flirt her butt off in person because she needed an activity to shrink the size of her buns.

The cracks she made about her appearance annoyed me. The “I’ll insult myself first so you don’t have to bother” reflex had to have come from somewhere, and if I ever got my hands on that person I’d . . .

Crack.

I glanced down to see the plastic pen in my hand had snapped under my death grip. I let it fall to the desk and leaned back in my chair.

During our conversation Monday night, Trinity had been more forthcoming than I’d expected, and yet I’d hated watching her struggle to explain herself. She hadn’t been looking for sympathy; she’d just wanted me to understand that being with her would be a challenge. She hadn’t tossed it out there as a dare to prove I was a man that could handle it, but I knew she wouldn’t have shared her vulnerability if she suspected that I couldn’t deal with it.

So what was it about this woman who had me digging in my heels instead of sprinting far, far away from her?

Granted, she was beautiful. But the glow that came from within called to me more than just her looks.

She had a quirky sense of humor. From the first night I recognized that it matched mine, so I understood when she confessed a lot of people didn’t “get” her.

She had a brain and she used it. Her hot, curvy body was just a side benefit.

She was comfortable giving—and receiving—physical displays of affection. I couldn’t be with a woman who wouldn’t let me show that side of myself whenever I needed to.

She was independent. She didn’t need me, but she wanted me. Me as a man, not as a Lund heir. As much as that relieved me, I wanted her to need me a little.

Are you getting what you need from her? You aren’t sleeping with her, so there is no physical release. She hasn’t cooked you a meal, or let you cook one for her. She hasn’t even seen where you work.

Even when my subconscious compiled a breakdown of all the things she didn’t do for me, I didn’t feel like I was giving and she was taking.

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