Paper Hearts by Claire Contreras

Author:Claire Contreras [Contreras, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Hearts #2
Published: 2015-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

HE WEAVED HIS bike around a two-story house and stopped in front of the garage as he waited for it to open.

“You may want to hold on to me again,” he said.

My hands flew around him as he revved up the bike and moved it inside the garage. I looked around the two-car garage, which didn’t have much aside from a black truck, a tool cabinet, and a pink Jeep suited for a little girl. My eyes stayed glued on that. I had a similar one as a kid. Our parents would take us out almost daily to ride around our neighborhood, me in my pink Jeep and Rob on his GI Joe bike as we tried to race to each stop sign. I wondered if Jensen got together with Krista to do things like that. I wondered if they got together often at all.

“Mia,” Jensen said.

From the tone of his voice I knew I missed whatever he’d said before that. I blinked rapidly and looked at him.

“Yeah?”

He cocked his head, signaling the house. “Come on.”

I followed him up two steps and into the house. The smell of wood hit me first. It wasn’t the overpowering Abercrombie store type, more like new wood cabinets. As my eyes scanned the white walls, I wondered if he’d opted to keep them that way or if he just hadn’t gotten around to painting them.

“How long have you lived here?”

He was standing beside me with his thumbs tucked into the front pockets of his jeans, his eyes on my face. “About two years?”

I breathed out heavily. Two years. “Did Olivia and her mom live here as well?”

“Just me. Olivia is here a lot, though, so technically she’s been living here for just as long.”

I walked forward, through an area with a long wooden table that looked like a park bench, until I reached the large kitchen.

“Oliver wasn’t exaggerating,” I said.

“About what?” Jensen asked, trailing closely behind me.

“He said your place was really nice.” I looked around the kitchen and rounded the corner of the island in the center. “This is beautiful,” I said, looking up to meet his gaze.

He stepped forward until he was on the other side of the island and placed his hands flat on the surface of it. The way he looked at me made me grip the counter on the side I was on.

“You haven’t even seen the rest of it.”

“This preview is enough for me to make a pretty accurate assessment that it is beautiful.”

He grinned. “Maybe that’s what I want everybody who comes here and stays on this floor to think.”

“Maybe you’re just trying to get me in your room.”

That made him chuckle. He pushed back and shrugged off his leather jacket, laying it on the counter. My eyes made their way down his body and my heart picked up speed as images of what was underneath his clothes flashed in my mind.

“You want to see the rest?” he asked.

His voice was grating and deep, and made me want to lose all my inhibitions.

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