Lunar Bound by Emerson Knight & McKenzie Hunter

Author:Emerson Knight & McKenzie Hunter [Knight, Emerson & Hunter, McKenzie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781946457028
Publisher: Sky Publishing LLC
Published: 2019-10-11T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Some hours later, I woke to a sunlit room. Sky’s warmth remained pressed against me. Watching the slow rise and fall of her breath, I wondered if I could sustain what we had. In all of my encounters and relationships, the one constant had been my reserve. I’d never hesitated to walk away because I’d never cared enough to stay. If my partner walked away, so be it. A selfish life was simple. But I cared for Sky. Somewhere along the line, her happiness and her safety had become my obsession. If I wasn’t careful, I’d push her away like the rest. Changing my ways had never been part of the equation, until her. I wondered if I’d found her too late, if being a selfish ass was too ingrained in my being.

Part of me wanted to remain there, watching her sleep, but waking at dawn was an ingrained habit. Given the brightness beaming through the windows, I’d already overslept by a couple hours. Careful not to wake Sky, I eased back from my embrace.

On my way to retrieve a fresh change of clothes from the trunk of my Maserati, I hesitated on the front porch, unusually aware of my nakedness. The neighborhood was quiet, peaceful, empty. Even if I were noticed, I hardly cared about my nudity.

Sky cares.

This was her neighborhood. She cared what her neighbors saw and how they thought of her, a consequence of maintaining relationships with them—precisely why I ignored my own neighbors. While I didn’t share her concern, I respected it. Staring across the yard to my Maserati in the driveway, I considered the distance, the likelihood that someone Sky cared about might see me, the chances that the same someone might talk to other neighbors. It occurred to me that in the time I spent debating whether to act, I could’ve already retrieved my clothes and returned to the house. Self-consciousness gave me a headache. Finally sick of the internal debate, I grumbled my way into the house. With a bathroom towel bunched in front of my crotch, I ventured back out to the Maserati.

While I fished in the trunk, Sky’s voice surprised me from the doorway. “Are you serious?”

She threw anxious glances around the neighborhood as if it was going to come alive at any moment to witness her embarrassment.

I grinned. “Good morning.”

“Get in the house,” she half ordered, half pleaded. “If that thing falls off, the neighbors will have you arrested.”

Clothes in hand, I closed the trunk. Walking up the porch, I kissed her on the cheek. “I think I’ll be okay.”

“Why, because you’re an attorney or because you don’t think anyone will call the police on you?”

After another kiss, I said, “Both.”

We showered together. Dressed, I left her in the bathroom and wandered into the living room to clean up any mess left from Sky’s fight with Ethos. I’d forgotten about the Aufero. Resting on a small table in a corner of the room, it reacted to my accidental approach with an angry, pulsing glow.

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