Long & Hard (Just a Taste Book 1) by Tory Baker

Author:Tory Baker [Baker, Tory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-04-13T18:30:00+00:00

9 Kade

“Drena,” I call her name, but she’s already booking it. I look from my dad to her mom, shake my head, and go after her. Fuck whatever it is they have to say. It’s not on my list of priorities to deal with two grown adults acting like they didn’t shake the ground Drena walks on. It’s clear she and Lilian have a decent relationship. I mean, she answers her calls and texts. Unlike myself. The only reason I responded to my own father's phone call was to make sure he didn’t go around jacking shit up in my life again. I don’t know her mother, since I only met her moments ago. What I can tell is that Drena doesn’t like to be blindsided, and that’s exactly what Jasper and Lilian did.

“Her name is Audrena,” one of them says behind me. I’d turn around and spout that she prefers to be called Drena and doesn’t like anything formal, along with a slew of other subjects neither one of them seem to know or care about. Except I wouldn’t be able to go after her, and she’s all that fucking matters. Drena is scurrying in between tables. It’s obvious she has no idea where she’s going, nor does she care. My eyes are locked on her back, watching as her dress keeps sliding up her thighs, and if she’s not careful, she’ll be giving the people looking at her a show. A bob and weave, and I see she’s slowing down, which is perfect for what I have in mind.

“Excuse me, pardon me,” I tell a waitress, barely missing her and the tray above her head. Christ, what a damn clusterfuck this is turning out to be. I finally gain on Drena. For someone so much smaller than me, the woman sure can move. Which is saying something given my time in the military. We’re taught to be fast on our feet. Yet the fiery woman who has me rushing after her is moving faster than I care to admit. Fuck, you’d have never seen me chasing a woman, not ever.

Drena is different.

She’s the best part of my days and nights.

She makes me want to be a better man.

She makes me realize there’s more to life than waking up, working, eating, sleeping, and repeating the process.

And I know I may not deserve to have her in my life, but I’m going to keep her anyway.

“Kade.” My arm slides out. She was about to hit the corridor where the restrooms are. It was now or never, and when the palm of my hand meets her abdomen, she relaxes, allowing me to pull her into my chest.

“Drena, babe. Come on, let’s get out of here.” She softens for only a breath of a moment before her spine goes ramrod straight and she tries to wriggle out of my grasp. I hold her tighter.

“Kade, we can’t. This isn’t right.”

“Fuck that. We’re right. This is right.” The last thing I wanna do is have this conversation out in the open.

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