Maverick by Cruise Anna

Author:Cruise, Anna [Cruise, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mission Bay Publishing
Published: 2013-05-21T22:00:00+00:00

EIGHTEEN

I somehow managed to drive back to the hotel room without crashing my car.

Not because I was drunk. Hell, the beer hadn't even given me much of a buzz, not with the massive burrito I'd eaten with it. No, I'd driven a little recklessly because I couldn't see straight, I was so angry with myself and with Kellen.

I played back the entire evening in my head. The minutes spent at his house before the banquet as I helped him with his suit. The drive down to San Diego and the conversation in the car, waffling back and forth between easy banter and difficult questions. The moment at the table with Wyatt, putting my hand on Kellen's leg, trying to reassure him. My chest swelling with some weird, misplaced sense of pride as he'd stepped up to the podium, big in the moment. The drive back to his house, the weight of the banquet lifted from him. Sitting at the kitchen table, eating burritos and drinking beer, having him pepper me again with a million questions. And then the driveway. Kellen leaning against my car. Crouching down. Kissing me.

I slammed my fist against the steering wheel. What the hell was he doing? What the hell was I doing?

I pulled into the hotel parking lot and made my way to my hotel room. I tossed my keys on the nightstand and stared at the stocked minibar. My eyes shifted to the bathroom and then back to the bar. I had two choices. Get completely shit-faced and try to forget what happened or get in the shower and try to wash away the anxiety and anger that had welled up inside of me. I hesitated for a minute, then lifted my dress up over my head. I stepped out of my panties, unclasped my bra and headed into the bathroom. I turned on the shower and steam filled the room. I stepped in, gasping a little as the hot water pelted my skin. The muscles in my neck and back were completely locked up and I let the water massage them into submission, let the heat and steam try to melt away the emotions coursing through me.

By the time I turned off the water and toweled off, I was in a better place to think. I pulled on a T-shirt and an old pair of shorts and sat down on the bed.

Kellen Handler had kissed me.

Big fucking deal.

We'd had an emotional roller coaster of a day. For him, it had been the banquet and the suit and the comments about Mavericks. For me, it had been the questions he'd peppered me with over the last twenty-four hours.

But that didn't excuse my going off on him when he kissed me.

Why had I freaked so badly?

Kellen's questions had unnerved me. I wasn't ready to disclose my entire life to him and I was surprised that he cared enough to ask. But I'd meant what I'd told him. He had done well and he was turning out to be different than what I'd expected.

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