Rocked by Love by Ella Goode

Author:Ella Goode [Goode, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

DYLAN

“You doing all right?” James asks. We’ve been slow tonight. I just did last call. I’m not sure if I’m thankful for that or not. When I’m busy, I don’t have time to think about Dylan, but it’s nice not to be running around.

I’m worn out. Dylan has been gone a day, and I can still feel him on me. I’m not as tender as I had been between my thighs, but there is still a small ache there. Though I could be mixing it up with an ache to be filled by him again. The man has ruined me. I can’t stop thinking about him.

“I’m fine,” I lie. My emotions are all over the place. At first, I told myself I wasn’t going to text Dylan. I hadn’t. Then he was texting me, and I couldn’t help myself. I know I’m being a brat. He has a job, but if I don’t text him, maybe he’ll miss me and come back sooner.

“You don’t seem fine. And I know better than to believe there is nothing wrong when a woman says she’s fine.” James leans up against the bar. “When did your lover boy say he’d be back?”

“A few days.”

“Hmm” is James' only response.

“What does that mean?” I tense.

“What?”

“The hmm?” It’s not often that James doesn’t have an opinion on something or someone, so I know that one little hmm means he’s holding back.

“Only thinking.” He gives me a smile, but it’s forced.

“Well, think out loud,” I order him. James lets out a long sigh as though telling me exactly how he feels about the Dylan situation is the last thing he wants to do.

“I don’t want to burst your bubble, but I also don’t want you pining away for someone that might not be coming back.”

“He’s coming back,” I rush to say way too defensively. James’ brows lift. “He’s been texting me. If he didn’t have plans to come back, why not just ghost me?” Hell, he could have given me a fake number, but he didn’t.

I have to admit that it burned a little when he left. I knew he had to go, but the time had gone by way too fast. He had helped me close the bar the night before, and we went upstairs and made love. Then he slipped from my bed saying he had to go. I had to fight the urge to beg him to stay. I don’t know how I managed it. It would come off clingy and probably freak him out. I never thought I’d be that girl, but here I am.

I know it's because of my abandonment issues. First my mom and then my dad. Not that my father wanted to leave me, but I still felt left behind. I should be used to it. All it did was open up wounds I’ve been trying to keep closed because I’ve never let them actually heal.

“I just find it odd that he left in the middle of the night to catch a plane.

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