Lay It Down by Cara McKenna

Author:Cara McKenna [McKenna, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Kim went through the motions of her job that morning, barely aware of the shots she was taking, thanks to the memories coursing through her head like a pornographic slideshow.

Last night Holly had called to ask, “Did you fuck that biker guy yet?”

“Not technically, no.”

“So he didn’t put his penis in your vagina,” Holly had said carefully, and Kim could picture her doing the rude little finger motions to match. “Heavens, what on earth could that leave? Aside from just about everything?”

“Fine,” Kim had said. “It was¸ like, the hottest, most epic dry hump in—”

“I knew it! I knew you fucked him!”

“I’d say it was more the other way around.”

“You banged a guy named Vince . . . Holy shit. That is so awesome. Are you his old lady now? Do you have to get his name tattooed on your cleavage?”

“He’s not in a gang, you spaz. Though he is on parole . . .”

A pause. “Jesus Christ, Kimbo. I don’t think I’ve seen you go through a major breakup before, but when you’re in the market for a bad-idea rebound, you do not fuck around.”

“Apparently not.”

“You’re my new hero. Tell me everything.”

And Kim had flopped back across the rumpled bed before giving her friend the play-by-play. Same bed she’d later slept in, the lingering scent of her best-ever mistake spurring fitful, X-rated dreams.

Wiping red dust from her lens for the fiftieth time that hour, she wished she was on that bed now. With Vince. Getting to know him in the technical sense. But work was work.

At least she had no more safety-sensitive construction shoots scheduled and was free to photograph whatever she liked, this final day of the assignment.

She’d finish up by three, then escape the heat of the day to hole up in her room and start the laborious process of sorting through the thousands of frames and cherry-picking the ones worthy of charging her client for. Sort and organize, until Vince showed up. She was eager for the task. She needed to get her brain off all the bullshit—off that run-in with his mentally ill mother, and what she’d said about Kim . . . About whether she could possibly stay here, to see if it really did mean anything. About how if she did stay, how long would it be for? About pretty much everything except her breakup.

And how sad was that, that the thing in her life that currently required the least introspection was the painful dissolution of a two-year romance?

In truth, that was also a major factor in her considering sticking around. Avoiding the fallout. Procrastinating the cleanup.

No matter what his body could do to hers, Vince was shady. She had to keep remembering that fact, keep taking a mental highlighter to it lest the hormones convince her he was a good idea. A gun-toting ex-con was not someone who deserved to further manhandle her freshly banged-up heart . . .

Yet these past few days had felt like an adventure—ever since he’d set his beer down next to her scotch, in fact.

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