Ride Like You've Never Fallen (Summer Lake Book 11) by SJ McCoy

Author:SJ McCoy [McCoy, SJ]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Xenion, Inc
Published: 2017-01-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

When he found a spot to park, Nate went around and took Lily’s hand as she got out of the truck. None of this was going as well as he’d hoped. He’d been worried about her parents, but so far, they’d been the easiest thing to deal with.

They walked down the beach in silence. Nate didn’t know what to say. He wanted to ask her why she’d been so upset about her ex getting engaged to someone else, but he figured he had no right to know. He wanted to say something that would make her feel better—hell, something that would make him feel better, too, about running into that girl back there. He’d be damned if he could remember her name, even if he could remember way too much about the night he’d spent with her a few months ago. He sighed. Maybe he was kidding himself that he and Lily could have something together. How could they, if neither of their pasts was ready to let them go?

Lily looked up at him. “This sucks, doesn’t it?”

He nodded sadly. “I’m sorry.”

“Me too.”

“So, what do you want to do?”

She shrugged. “What I’d like to do is go home. Unfortunately, I don’t see how I can. You can, though. I can tell my parents that something urgent came up at work and you had to go. They’d understand that. Work comes first, it takes priority over everything else.”

Nate put an arm around her shoulders. “I don’t work like that, Lil. Work doesn’t come first for me. And besides, I wouldn’t just run out on you.”

She smiled. “You probably should.”

Nate’s blood ran cold. Was she thinking of calling this off? “Why?”

“Where can it go, Nate?”

“Anywhere we want it to.”

“Can it, though? I mean, I’d like it to go somewhere good, but to me, somewhere good is somewhere permanent and somewhere exclusive.”

“We are exclusive. That was the whole point of me asking you to be my girlfriend. I meant I don’t want anyone else anymore. I just want you.”

“Yeah, but I’m not the only one who wants you, am I?”

“That’s not my fault. That girl back there …”

She gave him a sad smile. “You don’t even remember her name, do you?”

He shook his head. He couldn’t deny it. “But doesn’t that tell you how much she meant to me?” He wanted her to understand that all those women, they were just for fun. She meant more than that to him. It backfired on him.

“Exactly. That’s how important this kind of thing is to you. It doesn’t mean anything. To me, it means everything. Or at least I want it to, but I don’t dare even want that with you because I know I’m only going to end up getting hurt.”

“I’d never hurt you, Lil.”

“I know you wouldn’t try to, but I don’t know, Nate. I’m not sure we should do this.”

“Well, I am.” He wanted to prove to her that he could change, that he wanted to change—hell, that he had changed since he’d met her.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.