Loving Hard by Carina Wilder

Author:Carina Wilder [Wilder, Carina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-01T18:30:00+00:00

Twelve

Riley

“Riley!”

I can hear his voice behind me, but I don’t want to turn around. I don’t want to pretend I’m okay, because I’m not.

I’m halfway down the block already, after sprinting out of the pub. The tears are streaming down my cheeks, unrelenting evidence that my attachment to Galen has grown way too intense. I know those tears shouldn’t be there. It’s ridiculous for me to feel anything. He’s my tour guide, for crap’s sake, not my lover. He’s not mine, and that’s mostly because I said from day one that he couldn’t be. If anyone was responsible for coming up with the stupid rules, it was me.

Ten months, I keep telling myself. Ten months, then I can have whatever I want.

Fuck, why did it drive me so nuts to see another woman pushing her massive chest into his face? Why did I hate that so much, if I’m not even supposed to like Galen as anything more than a friend?

Stupid question.

I know the answer as well as I know my own name.

Because I don’t want to wait ten months. I want him now. I want to know that he’s as attracted to me as I am to him. I don’t want to have to think about other women. I don’t want to compete.

I want him to be mine.

He’s caught up to me; I can hear his footsteps behind me now.

“Riley, please stop fleeing from me like you’re Usain Bolt going for another sodding gold.”

When I don’t stop, I feel his hand grabbing my right arm. He’s not letting me go, and after a very weak attempt to free myself, I let him halt me in my tracks. I feel the heat of his body as he presses himself into my back.

“She’s my ex-girlfriend,” he laments, his breath stroking heat on my neck. “Very crucial emphasis on the ex. She’s nothing to me at this point, and never really was.”

“It’s fine, it doesn’t matter,” I tell him, refusing to turn around for fear that he’ll see the streams of mascara that are no doubt streaking my cheeks. “It’s totally fine. I just thought I should leave you two alone. It was pretty obvious that she wanted you to herself, and who am I to get between…?”

“I didn’t want to be left alone with her, or anyone,” he interrupts. “Damn it all, Riley, I don’t like you leaving me.”

“Well, that’s what I do,” I reply, allowing myself to lean back into him a little, my body surrendering. My heart’s beating hard and fast now. It feels far too good to touch him like this, to speak intimately with him, like we’re alone in the world.

But I’m not supposed to be intimate. I’m supposed to keep my distance. “The plan is I leave you, and you leave me,” I moan. “That’s our deal. So I think I should go back to my place.” His hands are on my hips now, his broad chest easing into my shoulders. There’s something else, too. Something gorgeous and incredible and very, very hard, springing to life in his jeans.

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