Not Looking for Love: Episode 7 (A New Adult Contemporary Romance Novel) by Lena Bourne

Author:Lena Bourne [Bourne, Lena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: By the Pond Publishing
Published: 2015-05-17T23:00:00+00:00

Gail fell asleep almost as soon as we returned home from dinner last night, but despite her soft skin pressed against me, her legs entwined with mine I couldn't follow suit. For the first two hours, I also didn't dare move, because she's fucking right, we should be making the most out of this, here and now. Every fucking minute of it. So why can't I?

So I spent the rest of the night pacing the dark apartment, staring out the windows. I don't deserve for Gail to love me and want to be with me despite all the bad things I've done. Like turning away when I saw a man tortured, destroying evidence, stealing cars, having a brother who wants to hurt her, repeatedly leaving her with almost no explanation, lying to her. I don't deserve it, but I do want her love. No, I need it. And I can make it all up to her. Or, at least, I will spend the rest of my life trying.

Somehow, after I figure that out, make that promise, sleep comes easier. And it'd be a whole lot better, if Greg's call didn't wake me at 9 AM.

"Gotta go," he says.

"Where?" I mutter, barely above a whisper. I'd only slept for like two hours. There's no way I can function properly on that little.

"Meet me downstairs in twenty," he says and hangs up.

Gail is still asleep and I slip out of bed slowly, so as not to wake her. But her eyes are wide open when I turn to drape the covers back over her.

"Where are you going?" she whispers.

"I'll be back soon," I say.

And I really hope I can be, because all the warmth of waking up next to her is already fading, and I want more, I need more.

She rolls over and closes her eyes, and I guess that's all I can ask for.

I take a cold shower, which makes me feel like shit, but at least my head is clear now.

Greg's waiting for me on the curb, leaning against a gas company van, already dressed in uniform.

"This just came," he says, pointing back at the van and squashing his cigarette with his boot. "There's a uniform for you in the back. Change and then we can get going."

My heart's rattling somewhere in my stomach, but I don't exactly have a choice in this. He unlocks the back and I climb in, pull the coveralls over my clothes, and tuck my hair into a matching ball cap.

"We're just gonna poke around a bit today," Greg says as he pulls away from the curb.

I nod and crank the AC higher, because I'm now wearing way too much for this heat.

"You know, I don't think you've said one word since you came down," Greg remarks, and I stare at him blankly. So much is swirling around in my brain right now, I actually didn't realize I haven't spoken yet.

"I'm not really awake yet," I say and turn the radio down, since the noise is cutting right into my brain.

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