Landing the One by S.E. Rose

Author:S.E. Rose [Rose, S.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: S.E. Rose Author

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Colter

There’s paint fucking everywhere. I mutter under my breath as I try to wipe it up with paper towels, only it’s creating more of a mess. It’s been a few days since the senior center debacle. And I’ve been over here all day, every day. It’s like I can’t get enough time with Finley. I’ve seen her checking my ass out at least five times, but then she quickly looks away. Once she turned too quickly and fell against my chest. We stared at each other for a solid ten seconds before she slowly pushed back. It took me another five seconds to release her hips from my grip. Something has changed between us since the day at the graveyard. I want to ask her if she was such a brat to me at the bar years ago because of that stupid truth-or-dare night in my room in high school, but I haven’t brought it up again. Could all of our loathing of each other have been over silly antics from our youth?

She throws her head back and laughs. “Colter! We are in an old garage. The floor is cement. Just turn the hose on.”

She points to the water valve above a hose that’s coiled against the wall.

“We need turpentine,” I mutter as I walk over to the hose and turn on the water supply.

“I have some. But let’s get it diluted first,” she suggests.

I start spraying the ground and I feel like I’m just making more of a mess.

“Let me,” she insists as she stands up and brushes off her paint-covered overalls for reasons I can’t understand since they are already filthy.

“I think I need to hose you down,” I state as I nod toward her.

She rolls her eyes as she reaches out to grab the nozzle from me, but I pull it away and turn the spray on her.

She yelps and holds up her hands. “Stop!” she yells laughing as she lunges for the hose.

I step back and put the hose above my head while keeping the nozzle trained on her. She’s yelling and laughing and flailing her arms as she attempts to reach it.

All of a sudden she slips and goes crashing to the ground. I drop the hose and run over to her, taking her in my arms.

“Are you alright?” I ask as I examine her for injury, making sure her ankle is alright.

She uses the back of her arm to wipe the water droplets on her face. “You are an ass,” she says, biting her lip to keep from smiling.

I chuckle. “I am.”

She wraps her arms around my neck and presses her wet chest against mine. “Now you’re wet too,” she whispers. She winks at me and finally lets that smile shine through and something snaps inside me as I stare into her eyes. Those dark lashes seem longer and thicker now that they’re wet. Her cheeks are rosy from the cold. She’s not wearing any makeup and she doesn’t need to because she’s absolutely fucking beautiful.

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