Ruin by Samantha Towle

Author:Samantha Towle [Towle, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Samantha Towle Writes Ltd
Published: 2018-03-05T16:00:00+00:00

Working overtime while functioning on a few hours’ sleep is not good. I feel like a zombie.

I forgot how hard it was to do a day’s work on little sleep. It’s been a while since I had to do it because Gigi started sleeping through the night like the awesome kid she is by the time she was one.

Nothing gets in the way of my girl and her sleep.

Unfortunately for me, plenty was getting in the way of my sleep.

Well, just one thing.

Zeus.

Every time I closed my eyes, I could feel the ghost of his lips on mine and the heat of his body pressed up against me…and the hurt in his eyes when I rejected him.

I royally screwed up last night.

I should’ve headed him off at the pass. But I had been weak, and I’d let him kiss me.

Hell, I’d pretty much attacked his mouth the second he kissed me.

I haven’t spoken to him since last night. I received a perfunctory text from him earlier, telling me that he’d picked up Gigi from pre-K and they were at his place.

I could feel the chill emanating from my phone.

I felt sick, reading it.

I still feel sick and awful and sad.

Kissing Zeus last night only served to remind me of how good things used to be between us. How hot we used to be for each other. How amazing he always made me feel. How easy things between us had been back when we were younger and in love.

Now, nothing’s easy when it comes to Zeus and me.

I know I need to talk to him about last night. Clear the air between us.

But the chickenshit in me just wants to avoid it.

But I can’t avoid him.

He’ll be dropping Gigi off later.

So, I’m just going to have to put on my big-girl panties, woman up, and talk to him like a grown-up.

I can do it.

I think.

Ugh.

I just need coffee, and the weak stuff in the station’s machine just isn’t going to cut it.

I push my desk chair out and lock my computer down.

I’ll make a quick run to the coffee shop. I’m due for a break anyway.

I grab my purse and head out of the building.

“Cam,” a familiar voice calls.

I turn, seeing Rich. He’s dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, a sports bag thrown over his shoulder. He must’ve just finished a shift.

“Hey.” I smile, watching as he jogs down the station steps, coming toward me.

“Hey, stranger,” he says when he reaches me.

I haven’t seen Rich since our failed night out. Not because I’ve been avoiding him. We just haven’t crossed paths at work. We’ve texted a few times. Well, he’s texted me, asking how I’m doing, and I’ve replied, but nothing beyond that. He’s respecting that I have a lot going on in my life right now, and I appreciate that more than he could know.

“You just getting off?” he asks.

“No.” I shake my head. “I said I’d work an extra few hours to catch up on the backlog of paperwork we’ve got, but I need coffee, and the station’s machine sucks.

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