Run from Fear by Jami Alden

Author:Jami Alden
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781455505456
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2012-03-01T10:52:26.361000+00:00

Chapter 14

Jack could feel Talia’s stare on the drive home, but every time he glanced over to catch it, she quickly averted her gaze out the window. It only served to heighten the frustration he’d worked overtime to hide throughout the night.

Other than his aborted scuffle with Danny, the night had been pleasant enough. Or it would have been if Jack had actually just been going to a party with Talia as his actual date, instead of living in some bizarro side world where the only reason she was with him was because he needed to keep her safe from the creep who was out to get her.

Usually he liked hanging out with his friends, liked seeing them—especially Danny—get taken down a peg by the gorgeous women who had them totally whipped. Liked watching little Anna run her daddy ragged and the panicked look Ethan got on his face every time baby Joey so much as squealed.

But tonight it had been torture. As he’d watched Talia move throughout the night, coming out of her shell with the others, talking and cracking sly jokes until even Danny was laughing, it had occurred to Jack that she could fit right into this crowd.

They could be a couple just like the others, sharing knowing glances and touches under the table that they thought no one else noticed.

Jack had never realized how much he wanted that until tonight, when every loving gesture was a sharp poke in the chest. Taunting him, reminding him of what he couldn’t have, at least not with Talia.

And every flash of her beautiful smile, the sound of her laugh, every glimpse of her legs under that flirty dress hammering home the fact that Danny, Derek, and Ethan would go home, settle into bed, and wrap themselves around the loves of their lives.

And Jack would go back to Talia’s house, watch her retreat up the stairs to her solitary bed, hard as a spike, every cell in his body aching for her, the bitter taste of futility on his tongue.

Shit. Danny was right. Jack was a fucking sap, a sucker who was once again throwing everything aside as he threw himself at a woman who, although she might care for him, would never be capable of giving him what he wanted from her. What he needed.

Ironic, considering as he left the party tonight, Danny had pulled him aside and said in a low voice, “Maybe you’re on to something with this one.”

He was on to another dead end, Jack thought grimly. But it wasn’t like he had any other choice. Contrary to what Talia might think, he would never in a million years cut and run just because he wasn’t going to get a payback.

It wasn’t her fault Jack wanted more. It wasn’t her fault that every time he saw her smile, heard her laugh, or caught her clean, soapy scent in the air, he had to fight the urge to yank her to him and never let go.

And most

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