Mine For Now by Erika Kelly

Author:Erika Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-07-25T04:00:00+00:00

The first three hours of the ride to the airport, he’d driven so Nicole could sleep. The next two and a half hours she’d driven. As the car slowed in the clot of traffic narrowing to the departure terminals, she edged nearer to the curb.

He motioned ahead. “Go all the way to the end.”

“But your airline—”

“Go.”

Not a chance would he leave without setting her straight. He’d had time to get his thoughts in order.

He never freaked out—he couldn’t afford to. No matter the situation, he had a clear head so he could handle crises. But the fear of losing Nicole? It had loosened a screw. He’d lost his balance. But he was back on solid ground now.

She pulled over at the very end of the terminal, well ahead of the cars dropping off passengers. They sat quietly for a moment. She looked straight ahead, tapping her fingers on the wheel.

Okay, enough of this shit. He shifted his seat back as far as it could go, then lifted her onto his lap.

“No.” She struggled, pushing him away. “Stop it.”

He situated her in his lap and threw an arm over her thighs to keep her in place. “I didn’t mention Kelsi because when I left her in August I was done. Completely done. Not because she’d done anything wrong, but because I wanted to get out of there and start a new life. As far as my feelings for her? I felt… grateful.”

Her expression turned angry, like she didn’t believe him. Well, he was sorry if it made him sound like a piece of shit, but it was true.

“I’ve lost a lot of relationships because of my mom—I don’t speak to anyone in my family, and whatever friendships I might’ve started in school ended the moment my mom pulled one of her stunts. And believe me, in my small town, everyone knows what my mom does.” Her name could be counted on to show up in the Police Report section of the local paper several times a year. “But Kels didn’t care about any of it. She was always there for me.”

He tipped her chin, wishing he could take the pain he’d caused away. “What we have? You and me? It’s on a whole different level. I know you think I’ve slept with a dozen girls since I got here, and I guess I can see where you’d get that idea, but I haven’t. I’ve only been with you.”

“You wouldn’t have stayed with a girl for two years if you only felt grateful to her.”

This was what he loved about her. She was real. “You’re right. In the beginning I did have feelings for her. But, still, not the way you think. It was never what we have. Look, Nicole, I fucking hated my life. I worked my ass off so I could get out of there. And Kelsi? She’s everything I hated about my life. Her ties to my mom, her attitude, her lifestyle—she represents everything I couldn’t wait to get away from.

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