Long Gone Girl by Amy Rose Bennett

Author:Amy Rose Bennett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance historical, romance military, romance 1950s, romance second chance love, romance and erotic story
Publisher: Amy Rose Bennett

Seven

The night air was cool, damp and redolent of brine, and the crash of the surf thunderous when Jett and Ginny emerged from La Pesce Piccolo a couple of hours later. The pavement was wet from an earlier passing downpour but Ginny didn’t seem to mind as she walked quietly beside Jett, his arm around her slender shoulders. In the intermittent light cast by the streetlights and windows of shops and houses, he could see that she was smiling quietly to herself, suddenly withdrawn compared to how she’d been during dinner. Gone was the laughing, witty girl who had chatted with him and teased him as they’d shared a bottle of Chianti whilst trying to eat spaghetti alle vongole without wearing it. Glancing down at her pensive face right now, he was dying to know what she was thinking.

Jett couldn’t help but smile ruefully to himself also. Face it Kelly, she’s probably plotting an escape plan.

She’d agreed to walk back to the Pavilion with him, but after that, Jett’s gut feeling told him she would say good-bye. For good.

But he just couldn’t—no wouldn’t—accept defeat. Running his hand lightly up and down Ginny’s smooth bare arm to help keep her warm, he acknowledged that she was under his skin and he had to see more of her. There was no doubt that he wanted her in his bed. But even if that didn’t happen tonight, at the very least he wanted another date, or three or four. The crush he’d harbored for so long could easily develop into something more.

What the hell? Jett nearly stopped dead in his tracks at the realization that he was truly smitten, for the first time ever. Christ Almighty, could he really be that far gone after only a few hours in Ginny’s company?

Yes he was. But then perhaps he always had been.

Jett swallowed down a groan of defeat. He couldn’t fight these feelings for Ginny any longer. More telling still was the fact that he didn’t even want to try. Problem was, he didn’t have a clue what to do or say next to keep her by his side. His arsenal was well and truly out of ammo. Ginny was completely unlike any other woman he’d ever dated. Not only was she beautiful and funny, she was smart, perhaps even too smart for him. She’d seen through every one of his ploys this evening and he had no idea how to keep her engaged. This was proving to be Goddamned harder than executing maneuvers in a dog fight with a MiG-15 over Korea.

It hadn’t helped matters that Ginny had been sending him mixed messages all afternoon and even this evening. After the movie, when she’d finally admitted that she was still attracted to him, he’d been doing mental barrel rolls of joy. She seemed to enjoy his company during dinner. But something was holding her back from being fully open with him. And now, judging by her continued silence, she was completely closed off from him.

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