No Apologies (Bomar Boys Book 2) by Jess Bryant

Author:Jess Bryant [Bryant, Jess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-10-17T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Skylar sat on the front steps outside Colt’s apartment and tried not to think about the last time she’d waited here for him to return. She’d told herself that she was only worried about Colt because he was her friend. But the second she’d seen him bloody and bruised, nothing could have stopped her from reaching for him that night.

To offer comfort. To be there for him. To reassure him that someone cared if he was okay. And maybe, just a little bit, because she’d needed the reassurance that he was okay too.

But he’d pushed her away, just like he always did. He’d snapped and snarled at her like a dog that had been kicked one too many times. And it had hurt so badly hearing that he didn’t want her there, didn’t want her to care about him, that she’d walked away.

She’d spent weeks pretending that she didn’t care. Weeks trying to convince herself that it would be better for both of them if she didn’t. Weeks of forcing herself not to think of him and trying to move on, trying to be with another man, a good man, but in the end trying not to think about him had only made her think of him even more and that had made her mad.

Getting mad at Colt was easy. He gave her plenty of reasons to be angry with him. Staying mad at him, however, had proven to be the tough part. Because even through her anger, she knew that she couldn’t hold his reactions against him.

He was what he was. He was a wild animal and he lashed out when he felt threatened. He didn’t know how to trust because everyone he should have been able to rely on had let him down. His first instant was to fight because he’d had to fight all of his life just to survive a father that wanted him dead and a mother too stoned to take care of him. He isolated himself because Cash was the only person in the world that had never abandoned him.

She couldn’t blame him for that. She couldn’t hold any of that against him. He was what he was but she was what she was too. She was a fighter too and this time she couldn’t let him win. She couldn’t let him push her away. She wouldn’t.

All day she’d watched him retreat further and further into himself, further and further away from her, and she wanted him back. She wanted Sweet Colt. The man that had made love to her in the middle of the night. She wanted Affectionate Colt. The man that had refused to stop protecting her. The man that, for just a minute there, she’d let herself believe loved her in return.

Despite the awful attack on their businesses, she’d had hope when the morning started. Colt had talked to her, even flirted a little. He hadn’t made any grand gestures to move them forward but he hadn’t backtracked either. She’d kissed him and he’d let her.

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