Pretty Reckless by Jane Anthony

Author:Jane Anthony [Anthony, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2017-08-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chase

A bright ray of sunlight slices across my closed eyelids. A meager moan flits from her lungs; her body squirms against me.

“Chase.” My name is a breathy sigh floating on air. I tighten my grip, running a hand up her spine to the nape of her neck. Another whimper, another wriggle. So warm, so soft.

Apples. I can almost taste them on my tongue. I shift, attempting to deeper inhale the delicious body in my arms. Petite hands find my chest and push. “Chase. You’re squeezing me to death.”

Consciousness returns. My heavy eyelids crack open and survey my surroundings. I was drowning in dreams, clutching Kat like a life preserver. “Aren’t we cuddly in the morning?” she jests, sitting up with a yawn.

I press my palm against the mangled tree limbs peeking up from the edge of her tank. The sky was a dusky shade of purple before we finally fell asleep. She released the burden of the past holding her down and somehow seems different now. Her usual defense mechanism still sits on the surface, but her entire aura has shifted. Almost as if she’s lighter than she was before. Less guarded. Athena’s words ring in my ear. I'll never let anyone hurt her like that again.

Neither will I.

When my fingertip slips under the spaghetti strap, it falls down her golden shoulder. The semi I generally wake with is saluting at full mast this morning. The bed sheet draped across our bodies doesn’t hide the fact that I’m completely aroused. My abs contract under the warm touch of her fingers. She peers behind her, sucking her bottom lip between her teeth, and then slides off my bed. “I’m going to take a shower.”

I sit up and kick my legs over the side. Those little red shorts are going to put me in an early grave. The muffled sound of running water blasts through the paper-thin walls of my house. Thinking of Kat in the shower isn’t going to help the solid steel erection standing between my legs, and she doesn’t need another guy leering at her.

Grandma sits quietly in her room as I pass her doorway on my way down the hall. I wonder what today will bring. Maybe she’ll know me; maybe she won’t. Maybe she’ll break into show tunes and do a little soft shoe. It could happen. Nothing shocks me anymore.

I pace back and forth in the front yard with Aphro hot on my heels and a cigarette dangling from my lips. It’s barely ten a.m. and hot as balls out here already. The deep rumble of an engine calls my attention. The brakes squeal on the FedEx truck stopping in front of the house. Kat’s results. It must be.

My heart begins pounding in my chest. The cigarette falls from my lips as the man approaches holding a parcel bearing the company logo. “How ya doing today?” he asks.

Kat’s ridiculous dog yips from the landing. I pick her up and deposit her inside the house as the delivery guy holds out the electronic pad for me to sign.

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