Ronan by Nina West

Author:Nina West [West, Nina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2016-12-20T05:00:00+00:00

It’s almost two in the morning when I hear commotion in the living room and female laughter. Plural female laughter.

I grit my teeth against the realization that Ronan’s courtesy has run out.

He’s brought someone home.

Disappointment overwhelms me. It’s followed closely by anger, at Ronan, but mostly at myself for thinking this would work. I’m just not programmed for casual sex. I can’t do it, even with a guy I have no interest in hanging out with if we’re not having sex.

Tears prick my eyes as I lie in the dark, listening to the creak of the floor in the hallway, his door opening.

Waiting for the inevitable.

Waiting for it to begin.

My heart skips when my bedroom door creaks open. For a split second I think it’s another directionally challenged naked drunk girl, but the brief stream of light allows me a glimpse of a naked Ronan instead.

He shuts the door behind him. A moment later, the sheets shift and pull, and then he’s lying down beside me, heat radiating off his body. “I know you’re awake,” he whispers, the sound of his voice stirring my blood. His breath—a mixture of toothpaste and a sweet liquor and tobacco—skates overs my face.

“How?”

His hand slides between my legs, his fingers slipping under my panties. “Because you’ve been lying in bed for hours, wondering what I’m doing at the bar, waiting for me to come home.” His finger draws along my slit. “Thinking about me.”

I have been doing that.

But now I shove his hand away. “Don’t you have someone waiting for you?”

“What?” I can hear the frown in his voice even if I can’t see it.

“I heard more than one woman come in, Ronan.”

“You’re right, you did. There are two. And they’re with your brother.”

“Both of them?”

I sense his smile. “Both of them.”

“Oh.” Relief overwhelms me even as I try to block that visual out.

Ronan’s hand slips back, this time peeling my panties down past my knees. I lift my legs until they fall to my ankles and I can shake them off. “You thought I’d bring someone else home while we’re doing this?”

“Well, yeah. We made no commitments and you said only the one night.”

“You’re right, I did.”

“What changed?”

There’s a long pause as if he’s gathering his words. “I don’t enjoy the girls I pick up at the bar.”

I can’t help but laugh. “I heard how much you enjoyed that girl, remember?”

His breath skates over my cheek. “I enjoyed the part where I came. But it didn’t make me feel better about Tasha leaving me. But you feel different. You don’t feel so pointless and impersonal. Even if we have nothing in common and this is just for now, I feel better when I’m with you. Is that wrong?”

“No. It’s not. You’re still in love with someone else.” My heart pangs in my chest with a rare glimpse at Ronan’s pain. “And here I thought you were just another cocky asshole taking advantage of a vulnerable girl,” I tease.

“I am a cocky asshole. But I’m not a complete dick.

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