No Strings: A Blue Collar Novella by Mila Hart & Stephie Walls & Kristie Leigh

Author:Mila Hart & Stephie Walls & Kristie Leigh [Hart, Mila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mila Hart
Published: 2019-06-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Brayleigh

I watched Carter as he joined his friends and the officer joined me. I had no idea what I was thinking going to his house, but when he’d squeezed my hand and released me, I’d felt a loss I didn’t care to identify. And I certainly didn’t reach out for him. Then when he’d left and I still stared at the spot I’d last seen him, I wondered if I’d fallen for the man who’d saved me. Maybe my feelings had been amplified in some mental disorder when he’d carried me out of a burning building. Whether the feelings were legitimate or imagined, they still existed, and they twisted my stomach into knots. Or maybe that was the smoke inhalation making me sick.

I wanted nothing more than to reach out to my friends, but I couldn’t bring myself to call anyone at three o’clock in the morning. Gabby worked weird shifts at the hospital, and I sure wasn’t going to stay at her place alone with James. And Riley’s apartment was the size of a shoebox which wouldn’t be so bad except she was a slob. Even if I didn’t have another option, Riley’s wasn’t a choice. It was way too late to call my friends to ask for a place to stay just because I’d burned mine down. That story could wait until daylight.

As mindboggling as this whole incident had been, I couldn’t stop the obsessive thoughts that ran through my head. This was all about to get really messy, between insurance companies and my father finding out that I’d managed to knock over a candle in my sleep, I needed some stress relief sooner rather than later, and Carter could provide just that. I didn’t know what it said about me that I had sex on my mind and an officer in my face with a building full of ash behind me.

I managed to keep from losing my mind while the officer got my statement regarding what happened, and I didn’t miss the smirk or the shake of his head. He didn’t bother to hide that he knew who I was or his feelings about my part in multiple families currently being without a place to stay. I bit my tongue long enough to get the case number for the insurance company, but since I wasn’t the owner of the building, they would be reaching out to him as well.

My dad would have a field day with this. Once he knew I was okay, he’d lay into me about destroying a building. Then I’d get a lecture about why I insisted on living alone and not in New York. It would spiral into an argument about why I wanted independence, which he would claim I didn’t really have since I lived off his name. That wasn’t exactly true, but he did manage my finances and my meager income. I groaned, dreading it all.

As the guy finished with me, another officer emerged from the building with what appeared to be my purse.

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