Rough by Sybil Bartel

Author:Sybil Bartel [Bartel, Sybil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: novel
Publisher: Sybil Bartel
Published: 2017-03-20T05:00:00+00:00

I couldn’t believe I’d taken my clothes off like that, let alone ate all the food he’d heaped on my plate. I’d never been comfortable naked around anyone, including myself. My hips were too wide, my stomach wasn’t flat, and my thighs touched in the middle. But Jared made me feel like I was beautiful.

If I stopped to think about all the women he’d slept with, how he probably made them all feel special, I’d start to hyperventilate.

“Spill it,” Jared demanded.

“Excuse me?”

“You say that every time you stall. You heard me.” He picked our plates up and put them in the sink, but then he didn’t come back and sit by me. He stood on the other side of the counter and stared me down.

I inhaled and started with the obvious. “I know what you said earlier, but if I walk out the door, the lawsuit goes away.”

“Not happening. The lawyer’s been called. He’ll deal with it. I’m done discussing that bullshit. Next issue.”

I slipped his T-shirt over my head, not sure if I was impressed with his confidence or afraid of it. “I don’t understand… this.” I didn’t understand what was happening between us or how he knew I had more than one issue on my mind. I picked up my leggings and pulled them on. My core still humming from his touch, I ached for more of him, but I couldn’t look at him. If I did, I wouldn’t want to tell him the rest of what I was thinking.

He stepped around the counter and got in my personal space. Lowering his voice to a deep cadence, he was all at once seductive and mesmerizing yet totally demanding. “Start talking.”

I breathed in. “How do you do that?”

“Do what?” he asked in the same voice.

“That. Your tone. You make me want to tell you every thought I ever had, but at the same time, it’s demanding, like I don’t have a choice not to tell you, except I’m not sure I even care, because you’re focusing all your attention on me and it makes me feel….” I stopped myself.

“Special?”

I exhaled. “Yes.”

“You are. Now tell me why you were frowning when you were eating.”

All of a sudden, I wasn’t standing in front of the demanding Jared, or even the angry Jared. This was a different side of him, but I couldn’t gauge it. I didn’t know what was going on. I’d only known this man hours. I was uncomfortable in a way that made my stomach flutter and breath catch, yet I was more relaxed than I’d ever been around any man. It was my excuse for asking what I asked next. “How many women have you been with?”

“I’m not going to tell you that.”

Oh God. It was because it was a lot. I knew this. I told myself I knew this. He was an escort, for goodness’ sake, but oh my God, this didn’t feel good. “More than a hundred?”

He studied me for a moment. “Is the answer going to change how you feel?”

I thought about that.

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