Quarantined Hearts by Bee Murray

Author:Bee Murray [Murray, Bee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

Roe

Turning out of the bathroom, I headed down the hallway not paying the slightest attention to where I am going. My eyes are glued to my phone and the updates from the pandemic. Global numbers are climbing and despite the conversation I had with Austin earlier, I still feel guilty. I could be with my colleagues at the hospital keeping my friends and neighbors safe. I am so distracted that I didn’t see the shadow move until it was too late and I crashed smack into a very hard chest. Austin. Again.

“Mmphf.”

I don’t know why I keep wanting to touch him. There’s tension between us, even with a sort of uneasy truce but there’s also something else. Between crying on him out on the balcony and sitting comfy in his lap, something has awakened that is causing me to see Austin differently.

Austin is less subtle. I catch the longing looks he sends me, when he thinks I’m not looking. He caught me checking him out earlier and it felt awkward, almost taboo. Like it’s somehow wrong to check out the man I used to know as the plague of my life because a decade has passed? Austin is confusing and so are the sparks he keeps sending out.

He’s also half naked and standing in front of me, leaning against the door jamb and looking like sex on a stick and eyeing me like he’s starving and I’m dessert. Oh good. More complications.

“It’s late, Austin. What do you want?” The tone came out shorter than I had intended and I inwardly wince.

“You.”

He says it so matter of factly that I do a double take. He’s not the emotional, broken, lost boy right now. He’s a fully grown man and Austin-the-man definitely gives me butterflies that confuse the hell out of me.

“And if I am not on the menu?”

He grins at me and saunters my way, reaching across me and brushing his arm across my breasts, causing me to let out a tiny, involuntary moan of delight. He grabs a mug with the word “You” on it and waves it at me.

“Oh.”

He’s still standing so close to me, I can smell the minty freshness of his toothpaste and I feel my cheeks heat.

“Did you want me to mean something else?” He asked, his voice husky and low.

The embarrassment of the situation makes me fall back to my angry mode and I shove him back and ignore the cheap thrill I get from touching him.

“No. But clearly you worded it that way for a reason.” I sound petulant and whiny but he steps closer to me, almost as if he’s daring me to close the distance between us. It’s getting harder to deny that there is an attraction between us.

“And why, dear Roe, would I do that?”

I falter, his presence is slightly overwhelming and I stumble over my words.

“Chemistry? Your own cheap amusement?”

“Do you think we have chemistry, Roe?”

His voice is low and rasping. I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that I could have him if I want him.

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