Little Black Dress by Mayra Statham

Author:Mayra Statham [Statham, Mayra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Enzo

She’s beautiful when she sleeps.

A serenity covered her face as she slept in my arms, and all I wanted to do was shield and protect it. I’d been awake for way too fucking long. I should have slipped out of bed and headed back to my place, but I hadn’t.

I couldn’t get myself to leave, and that fact alone freaked me the hell out.

Newly single after eighteen years had me doubting everything Ginny made me feel.

And fuck, it’d been a lot.

Watching her. Being with her. Hearing her laugh.

I found myself wanting so much more. More than I ever would have wanted with Karen. More than I would have ever expected. More than I had planned. Friday night’s plans had been simple. Get back on the saddle. Nowhere in those plans had been to start a new relationship.

Ginny shifted and snored softly, and I brushed her hair away, so I could get a better view.

That was exactly what Ginny Black would be.

A long-term relationship. Commitment with a high emotional investment.

But it wouldn’t be anything like what I’d had with Karen, and I knew it to my bones. It would be hearts and flowers and the kind of forever that had matching SUVs in the driveway and wedding bands on our left hand. Happily-ever-after kind of forever. But was I ready for that now? Did I want it now? I was closing in on forty. I was too old for this shit, wasn’t I?

If I didn’t get the hell out of her bed and back to my place to start off the work week, I wouldn’t have only hopped back on the saddle, I would have been roped and branded by her. You already are, a quiet voice in the back of my head chimed, and I shook my head. One last look, I leaned in and closed my eyes as my lips touched her soft skin at her forehead. I breathed in slowly, letting her scent fill my lungs, taking one last hit like a junky before pressing one last kiss and slipping out of bed.

Every step I took away from her as I grabbed my things and got dressed felt wrong. My stomach was in knots, and when I locked her front door behind me, stepping out of her house without even a note, I felt like scum.

Ginny and I had shared something. Experienced something together these last couple of days that was more than sex. More than physical. It had felt like my soul had recognized hers as a piece I didn’t know had been missing. But that was crazy. We didn’t know each other to know that. I was probably confusing things and getting it mixed up in my head.

I looked behind me and had to clench my hands into fists. The sun was starting to peek out of the horizon, but it felt like a dark light had been cast on my heart as I slipped into my car and drove away.

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