REGRET (LOST BOYS Book 2) by Emilia Finn

Author:Emilia Finn [Finn, Emilia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beelieve Publishing, Pty Ltd
Published: 2023-02-03T00:00:00+00:00

Preston

EASY DOES IT

She’s gonna make herself sick one of these days. Nervous and scared. Overthinking and obsessively analyzing. I feel her nerves in the air, her tension and worry making my own heart race faster.

But the fact she still wants me to come with her, that she’s still here and saying yes, means so much more than a casual ‘sure, we can fuck’ spoken by any other woman.

She’s terrified. But trusting. And hell, she’s taking me to her home. Her safe space.

Even if she’s chewing her thumbnail and radiating waves of anxious energy through the cab of my truck.

Pulling into her driveway, I slow to a stop and take the shift out of gear, then yanking on the brake and cutting the engine, I look to her as the music cuts away and silence beats down on us like a physical wave.

She doesn’t look at me. Doesn’t smile. Doesn’t make small talk. She just mutilates her fingernail and bounces her knee.

“Hey?” When her face edges toward pale and her thumb threatens to bleed, I reach across and wrap my palm around her wrist. Pulling her hand away and waiting for her eyes to come to me, I test a gentle smile. “You need to stop freaking the fuck out. This is feeling a hell of a lot like non-consent.”

“No, it’s…” She shakes her head and carefully tugs her arm free of my grip. Then reaching back and grabbing her monstrous purse, she pushes out of her side and wanders to my side of the truck.

She doesn’t open my door, but she waits, nervously looking anywhere but at me.

Putting her out of her misery, I snag my keys and open my door.

After swinging my legs out and dropping to my boots on squishy grass, I slam the truck shut, and swallow when she grabs my sleeve and starts toward her porch.

“I want this,” she mumbles, her face turned toward the house so I can barely hear. “I swear I do. I’m just…” She stomps up the porch steps and, releasing me, reaches into her purse to take out her house keys, separate from the set she tossed at Hannah.

Maybe her car breaking down is a common occurrence, so she long ago separated the set that would need to stay with the mechanic.

Unlocking her door and pushing it wide to reveal a front foyer dominated by a beautiful hardwood staircase, she turns back to me and glances up from beneath her lashes. “I’m still new to the casual sex scene. So I don’t…” she shrugs. “Ya know, nerves are allowed.”

“Well, sure.” I set my hand on her hip and lead her inside. “But if paralyzing nerves are all you feel when I’m around, then maybe I’m not the right one for—”

She kicks the door shut and spins so fast, half of me thinks she’s gonna sock me in the face. But instead, she tosses her handbag to the floor and wraps her arms around my neck, then she plasters her lips to mine and…

Jesus.

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