Roxy's Song: Love in Little River Book One by Ranee S. Clark

Author:Ranee S. Clark [Clark, Ranee S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sweetly Us
Published: 2019-09-08T04:00:00+00:00

Nash’s Jeep was parked in front of the house when Roxy headed back. She slowed her truck. Bellamy was right. Not being able to get Tag off her mind wasn’t fair to him. I still have feelings for him, she practiced in her head. She hated the sound of that on her tongue. Maybe those feelings were there, but she didn’t want them to be. She didn’t want to wonder what would happen when Tag went back to Nashville and his superstar life. Two declarations of love on either end of eight years didn’t equal happily ever after.

When she came into her kitchen from the garage, Nash turned from where he set out plates on her dining room table. He laid down the forks and came toward her, his expression apologetic.

“What’s up?” she asked, hoping she sounded calm and not like Tag had let loose a bunch of fire ants in her stomach. She would tell Nash they should take a break, but she didn’t want to ruin the future by going into too much.

“I brought dinner.” He wrapped her up in a tight hug and then pulled back to look at her. The fire ants scattered, thankfully. “I’m sorry about the way I said stuff this afternoon, that I made you feel like you had to spend the afternoon with Tag to prove he was just another guest or a friend and nothing more.”

She swallowed. Nash had nothing to apologize for. “It’s okay. I’ve missed hiking some of those trails.”

Nash flinched, and it wasn’t until she thought back on what she’d said that she realized she’d basically admitted to not hiking those trails in the years since Tag had left. She let the inference go. Trying to explain would only make things worse. Her love for Tag, even if she had thought it just friendship back then, hadn’t been just as big as those mountains, it had been in those mountains and every place they’d walked together. Every song that came from those moments.

Nash leaned his forehead down onto hers. “I can’t imagine having to spend the afternoon with Addy, and how awkward that would be. And I’m not even mad at her about things that happened between us.” He closed the distance and kissed Roxy, and it was several moments later that Roxy realized that while the fire ants had left, nothing had replaced them. Just as she’d feared.

As she kissed Nash, nothing drove her to pull herself closer, closer, closer to him the way her feet had begged her to step forward and put herself in Tag’s arms. Nash was a good kisser and she’d always enjoyed kissing him, but could she say that it was electric? Had it ever been?

“We need to talk,” she murmured when he pulled away. The fire ants had returned, crawling up through her stomach and spreading over her chest, squeezing the life out of her.

His eyebrows squished together. “About the hike today? Tag?”

She nodded and stepped back. Surely something had sparked between her and Nash to bring them together.

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