Liza Bennet: Vampire Hunter (Vampire Hunters) by Afton Leigh Rose

Author:Afton Leigh Rose [Rose, Afton Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: GLD Press
Published: 2021-04-05T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN – DARCY

Getting dressed, Darcy exhaled heavily. Nerves jangled in his gut, but he wanted to be honest with Liza. He didn’t want a fling – he wasn’t good at them. She deserved to know that he hadn’t ‘accidentally’ run into her at the gym, and he was glad he had run into her tonight. “I didn’t come here planning to do this,” he said. “I’ve been trying—”

“Nobody ever plans these things,” Liza said flippantly, pulling on her skin-tight jeans, not looking at him. “It’s good to just get it out of your system, though, right? Now we can just back to hating each other.”

Darcy froze, his shirt half-buttoned. She hated him? He knew he had made a poor first impression, but... hate? He thought back to the gym, to the day she had beat him so badly in the workout and then teased him afterward. Had he imagined the flirty tone? Or just hoped for it? Heat flooded up his face as he realized that she really had been taunting him, jeering at him. He was the one who had projected a flirtation onto the interaction. Ever since she learned that he had the contract, she’d hated him. The stunt with the olive at the mayor’s party was the last chance he’d ever had to have something real with her.

What an utter and complete fool he was making of himself.

He cleared his throat and hurried getting dressed.

“Alright, then, yeah, I guess.” Where the hell had his socks gone to?

“I’m not usually this girl,” Liza continued, her voice light, airy. She was sitting on the edge of the bed, slipping on her shoes. “But something about you just brings out the worst in me, and I just had to... I don’t know, like I said, get it out of my system.”

She stood, once again nose-to-nose with Darcy. He kept his shoulders back, his chin up, swallowing the words he had been planning to say. I’ve been trying to find a way to talk to you, to see if there was something I could do to make everything up to you.

“You’re better than I thought you’d be, I’ll admit,” she said, adjusting her jacket, her shirt, anything she could smooth or straighten. “Guys like you are usually just take, take, take. You can dish it out better than... well, than anybody.” She smiled and gave a half-shrug.

“Thanks?”

“Oh no,” she said, leaning in close. Her breath tickled his ear and her next words were a purr: “Thank you.”

Darcy shivered and cursed his body for reacting to her so quickly once again.

“Text you later,” she said as she breezed out of the room. He hadn’t given her his number, and his face continued to burn at the shame of this.

Then she was gone and he was alone, barefoot, in the guest bedroom of some random CrossFit coach’s house, his business partner and his sister at the party outside.

Once Liza was truly gone – Darcy checked the hall to be sure she wasn’t

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