Kiltless by Melissa Blue

Author:Melissa Blue [Blue, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Melissa Blue
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

The next day, Tristan wanted to smile down at Keri. She continued her failed attempts with his tie. She needed an excuse to touch him while clothed. Since he decided his heart could go a few more hours without full blood flow, he gave her one. And he shouldn't have.

“Shouldn't” became a caveat with his every thought since the night before. He shouldn't run his hand over her hair while she slept. He shouldn't kiss her awake so they could go another round. He shouldn't act like they had all the time in the world.

The borrowed ring she wore glinted in the artificial light, reminding him why they didn't. No matter how much their hotel room had become a haven, how four walls shut out the world, it wasn't real. He could pretend all he wanted the past didn't exist, but it ate at his gut with each passing moment he reveled in.

He grasped her wrists to still her movements. She met his gaze and the smile she wore died away. He could live out this charade. The coward in him wanted to, but he'd promised himself he'd never lie to another woman about what he was. He made vows he'd broken to help his brother. How could he have ever imagined Keri would turn into this ache in his heart? He couldn't have. How could he have dreamed of this? He wasn't the kind of man who deserved to have a woman like her fixing his tie. So how could he have ever foreseen her walking into his life?

“What is it?” she asked, running her hands down his chest. “Don't tell me it's nothing.”

She was trying to comfort him and that twisted in his gut. “Let it go, Keri. We have a dinner to go to.”

Anger darkened her gaze. “No. You've had that expression all day and I've ignored it. Tell me. Whatever it is, just tell me to get it over with.”

He brushed his finger over her lips because soon she wouldn't want him to touch her. “My brother calls me a dick for a reason.”

Her gaze shuttered. She was bracing herself for what he had to say next. She couldn't possibly know, but his tone wasn't flirtatious or teasing. “I thought we'd gone over this already,” she said.

She'd adorned her ears with dangling clip-ons. After they'd been invited to a dinner at a posh banquet, they'd gone shopping. Currently out of work, she couldn't afford it. He footed the bill. A gesture that... Fuck. Fuck. He didn't want to hurt her or tell her the hard truth about him, but she had to know all his ugly, because despite his warning, she trusted him. He could feel it in the way she leaned into him as he cupped her face. Her earrings bit into his palm. Tristan let go of any hope she'd look past his ugly. No one ever did.

“When I first started to con, I did it to help feed my family, and then I did it because I was good.

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