RUGGED (A True Mountain Man Book 2) by Frankie Love

Author:Frankie Love [Love, Frankie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Bexley

He touches her in a way that screams intimacy. And yeah, all it took was that quick flash of hand-on-back to be reminded of why I could never compete with girls like her.

I mean, there were like twenty women up in Holden’s grill the moment he got off stage, practically begging him to take them home and fuck them.

I remember him telling me that he lost his virginity at fourteen, to the next-door neighbor. She was a seventeen-year-old senior who straddled him on her mother's couch.

I remember feeling so jealous at the time—of all of it.

Of the girl who was able to take what she wanted.

Of Holden, who recounted the story with a boyish grin.

Of the sex in general, because even then I knew that all I wanted was to lose my virginity to him, but I was terrified of what that said about me.

Holden was the guy who never outgrew blow jobs in the school parking lot, never outgrew getting high before math class. Never outgrew detention for cutting class.

And the fact that he was the one I wanted? I could never make sense of it.

So I drew a line in the sand, and decided he was off limits.

But looking at those women tonight who fawned all over him, I'm reminded of those pangs I felt when we were at school together. How I wished I were braver, more reckless. Less Bex, more sex.

Cheesy, but freaking true.

And I can't help but feel a surge of jealousy at the woman who’s standing with him now, after everyone else has left, the woman who’s laughing with Holden as they linger at the limo.

Probably his new girlfriend. New fuck buddy. New lover.

New whatever.

I can't believe I thought I could actually hook up with him tonight. Who am I kidding?

Moving toward the parking lot, I'm shocked at the tears in my eyes, blinding me.

Why am I crying over a boy I pushed away?

Only because deep down, I want him so badly.

I always have.

"Bex, wait up," he calls.

Holden is here. His hand on my shoulder. Pulling me around.

"Bex," he says again. He's out of breath. He ran after me. "We're in the parking lot."

I look around, at the cars, the football field in the distance, the ground. Anywhere but Holden's face. Because I can't.

"Kinda funny, right?" he asks. "To meet back at the very place we said good-bye."

I can't help it. I lift my chin, raise an eyebrow and smirk. "Said good-bye?" I ask, my heart catching—because one look at him and it's like no time has passed. Like we didn't just spend four years apart. Like I never cut him off.

He laughs, that effortless Holden laugh. The laugh that causes shivers to cover my skin and my breath to catch. The laugh that reminds me of everything we shared. The laugh that makes my longing for what we almost had palpable.

His bright eyes squint, remembering me at my worst. "It was more of a yelling, screaming, all-out brawl, wasn't it?" He presses

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