Rogues Come out at Night by Tamara Gill & Lauren Smith & Amanda Mariel & Dawn Brower & Meredith Bond & Kirsten Osbourne

Author:Tamara Gill & Lauren Smith & Amanda Mariel & Dawn Brower & Meredith Bond & Kirsten Osbourne
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 16

The following morning, Jane couldn’t believe she was staring at the most expensive car money could buy. An Aston Martin sat in the drive outside Stormclyffe’s front door.

“That’s your car?”

“You like it?” Bastian tossed the keys at her.

They bounced off her chest and hit the ground with a heavy clink.

“Like it? I think I want to steal it! No wonder you can’t go into town unnoticed.” She snatched up the keys and gazed at the Aston Martin with sheer lust. It was a model One-77, a gray, two-seat coupe. What person in her right mind wouldn’t like it?

“You want to drive?” He pointed at the keys in her hands, the wind teasing his dark blond hair and playfully blowing it in his eyes.

She wanted to hold onto this moment forever. The picture of him smiling, leaning one hip casually against a car almost as sexy as he was, with the sea behind him.

In her hand she held the car keys, but it seemed like the keys to something more. A dream. Yet here she was living in a haunted castle and sleeping with a veritable sex god with a tender heart. Living a dream. It didn’t matter that Bastian hid that softness with an exterior of arrogance. She’d broken through to him, and the man beneath was unbelievable.

I’m falling for him, and he could break my heart. What if, after all of this is over, he doesn’t want me? She’d never really known rejection until Tim. And once stung with that sort of pain, she couldn’t erase the phantom ache being abandoned left behind. If she fell in love with Bastian and he didn’t return those feelings, it would crush her. She wasn’t sure she could survive a second time. It was why she’d fought so hard to keep her distance, and yet it hadn’t worked. They’d been pulled together like a moon and planet, gravity knotting them into each other’s orbit. Inescapable. What would happen when they broke apart?

“Are you well, Jane?” His graceful stride toward her was panther-like. He cupped her face, thumbs brushing away her tears. “Don’t cry. Please…” His voice was a gruff whisper. “Whatever is causing those tears, don’t think about it. This will all be over soon.”

Her eyes shut, and he kissed her lips, holding her tight for a long moment.

“I’ll drive,” he whispered.

She nodded, desperately focusing on the research ahead of them. She had to forget that her time with him would end. That the irrevocable change he wrought within her would mark her forever as his, but she’d never have him. He’d said it himself. It would all be over soon. It meant he didn’t want her, not enough to ask her to stay. This was nothing more than a temporary fling, an intense hookup of two people under a lot of stress. No emotions, no feelings, just sex. And for him it would be over soon. The words were like iron nails in a coffin of the last surviving piece of hope her heart clung to that she could ever be in love with someone who loved her back.

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