Paranormal Friends with Benefits by Jasmine Wylder

Author:Jasmine Wylder [Wylder, Jasmine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Jonathon flew out over the water many times before he finally landed on an island far from the coast. By that time, Maggie’s face was chill from the elevation and burned from the sun. Her head felt overly light and she stumbled a bit when he finally set her down. Jonathon bent beside her, mumbling something about water and trekked off. When he returned, he told her he found a spring and showed her the way.

Maggie drank her fill and then checked him over for injuries. He was a bit burnt, too, and there was a nasty-looking bruise on his jaw, but otherwise, he looked to be in good health.

“Was this your plan when you challenged Josh for the alphaship?”

Jonathon gave her a shy, chagrinned smile. “Wish I could say it was. It was a lot smarter than just thinking I could beat him up and get us to the island.”

She remembered Josh’s not-so-secret intentions and shivered. “Thank you. I didn’t want his hands on me.”

“I know.” Jonathon ran his hands through his hair. “And we have to talk. This... this between us. We have to settle things before we go any further. Right?”

Maggie swallowed hard. She hated to admit it, but he was right. If they didn’t talk about it now, they might never get it out there. The thing that she and Jonathon did best was talk about things before they had a chance to embed and fester. About most things, at least. There were things that she had never told him. And, apparently, things he had never told her.

All in all, this was the worst time for her to find out that Jonathon had scared off Josh. Whatever his reasons, it hurt that he would go behind her back like that. It hurt that he would do something like that, and it hurt that he wouldn’t trust her with her own life. She didn’t want to be angry with him. Not now. Not with everything that was happening. And yet…

This was exactly the reason she didn’t want to sleep with him. Everything was more complicated now. Even something as simple as talking. It was made even worse because they’d only slept together because she’d drunk from him. She’d been as affected as he was, but she still shouldn’t have done what she did. She was the one who pushed. And even though she had apologized, she felt like there was more to say.

But how long did they need to process what had happened? And where was the line between processing and festering?

“There are more things you want to ask me,” Jonathon said. He sat beside the spring and ran his hand through his hair again. His shoulders were tense, and he didn’t look at her.

“There’s a lot I want to ask you.”

Jonathon nodded. “Then ask.”

Where to start? What she wanted most was to ask about last night, about why he’d slept with her. To know if they were good or if that was forever going to be between them, the initial rift that just kept getting bigger and bigger.

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