Love You Right by Julia Kent

Author:Julia Kent [Kent, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Prosaic Press

Tap tap tap

“Mmmmm.”

Tap tap tap

“Unnnh.”

“Rachel.”

Her eyes felt like two pieces of extremely dry sandpaper.

Blue sandpaper.

And why did her neck hurt so much? She couldn’t move it or a stinging sensation, tingling and horrible, radiated down her left arm.

Tap tap tap.

“Rachel!”

Opening her eyes, her mouth wet with drool but dry in other places, she startled, her laptop sliding to the right, nearly crashing down at her feet. Twinge in her neck be damned, she lunged to rescue it and gasped in pain.

The world was gray and white.

The door handle rattled, and fear spiked through her. Was she being attacked? Where was she? Had she been kidnapped and her blood sucked dry, like in the show she just watched?

Wait…

Show.

Car.

She was in her car, behind Bilbee’s Tavern.

And when she turned to look out her window, a very worried face met hers.

Kell.

“Rachel, what are you doing out here?”

“Whaa?”

“Are you okay? Did something happen? Talk to me.”

Snow was falling in large flakes, ethereal and lovely. Rachel wanted to stare at them and lose herself for hours.

The tapping began again.

Condensation had formed on the windows, and she realized she was cold. Very cold.

She rolled the window down an inch.

“What are you doing here?” she asked him.

“What are you doing here? I live here!”

“I know you live in Luview, Kell.”

He pointed to a door on the second floor. “No, I mean, I live here. My apartment is right there. Why are you in the tenant parking lot?”

Oops.

“Oh!” She reached for the ignition button. “I had no idea!” Turning the car on, she felt discombobulated, ready to flee, nerves pure electricity but firing without aim.

“Don’t do that. We’ve got about three inches on the roads and another six coming.”

“Nine inches?” she squeaked.

He smiled, biting his lips. “Something like that.”

“I can’t drive in that much snow!” she wailed, fully awake now, all of this hitting her at once.

“What were you doing out here?”

“Working.”

“Working? In the parking lot of Bilbee’s?”

“Yes.”

“Then why is your screen on The Vampire Tracker?”

Caught.

“Um… long story.”

“Come upstairs and warm up. Tell me about it.”

“I was avoiding people.”

“After that rant, I can imagine. What happened? Your personality changed suddenly.” As he bent toward the window, his breath pushed a white cloud into the car.

“I know. I feel like an idiot.”

“But why?”

“Work texts. They kept coming, and I’m under a lot of pressure. I needed to leave, and I got frustrated.”

“Work can be stressful.”

She wasn’t about to tell him that she would be fired if this deal didn’t go through.

“Plus, everyone here hates me.”

“No one hates you.”

“You do.”

“I don’t hate you, Rachel.”

“You don’t like me.”

“Can we just… talk?”

She’d been wishing to hear him say those words for five years.

“If you stay here, you’ll become a Rachelsicle.”

“My Peloton experience does not indicate that’s true.”

“I was making a popsicle joke.”

“Oh.”

“Come upstairs.”

She popped the locks and he opened the door. “Bring your bag and your laptop.”

“Why?”

“You want them freezing out here?”

“Good point.”

Once she collected everything, she climbed out of the car, her muscles screaming from being in the same position for so long.

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