Rumor Has It by Jill Shalvis

Author:Jill Shalvis [Shalvis, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Adult, Erotic, Romance
ISBN: 9780425255827
Amazon: 0425255824
Barnesnoble: 0425255824
Goodreads: 15810107
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2013-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

The next day Kate got up at the crack of dawn against the wishes of every single bone in her body. She wanted to lie in bed for another half an hour but that wasn’t going to burn calories.

She could think of a way to burn at least 112 calories, but Griffin wasn’t in her bed. Which was her own doing.

We going to solve our problem?

He’d asked her that in the diner, and she’d resisted getting serious about the question. In hindsight, she had no idea how. Maybe because of the envelope still keeping her company everywhere she went. This was her year, everything within her told her it was. She wanted to go to San Diego, needed to go, and yet . . . she was afraid. There. The pathetic truth. She was afraid. If she went, would her family be okay without her?

And then there was the real fear. If they were okay without her . . . did that mean no one needed her?

Tired of herself, she got up and ran.

Since she was still a little spooked from the last time and not quite up for the woods, she altered her route, taking the streets to the park instead. The fog hadn’t lifted yet, and she slowed to a halt in the middle of the park, realizing that taking the streets hadn’t helped all that much.

She still felt like a sitting duck.

With every horror film she’d ever seen running through her mind, she slipped her hand in her pocket and came up with the Mace.

Some men brought flowers.

Griffin had brought her Mace.

She loved that about him.

Larry was asleep on his bench, and she tiptoed past him. The concession stand was closed, of course. Which kind of sucked since popcorn for breakfast sounded pretty good about now.

Turning to go back, she nearly plowed into . . . Larry.

He was large and built like a bull in a china shop. A gentle giant. His long black and silver hair was thick and wild, his eyes sleepy. “You woke me,” he said.

She glanced at the bench and saw his bags of stuff scattered around. “I’m sorry.”

“You buy me popcorn?”

“They’re not open yet.”

Larry sighed. He might look like a retired linebacker, but his eyes were sweet, and he hunched a little bit, like he was trying to be more her size than his. She couldn’t imagine he’d been the one to chase her last time. For one thing, he moved like a tortoise. And for another, he wore only socks on his feet, as usual. People brought him hand-me-down shoes all the time; he just didn’t like them.

“Are you hungry?” she asked. “The diner’s offered to feed you breakfast, remember? You just have to show up.”

“The diner,” he repeated, his brow wrinkling.

“Yes,” she said. “Downtown. They’ll feed you if you’re hungry.”

He smiled sleepily at her, reaching out with his big, beefy hand to pat her on the top of her head. And then he turned and gathered all his stuff and walked slowly off, limping slightly in his sock-covered feet.

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