Scarred by Amber Lynn Natusch

Author:Amber Lynn Natusch [Amber Lynn Natusch]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-09-22T22:00:00+00:00

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I shot out of bed not long after.

Somehow during my spastic awakening, Sean had managed to stay asleep. I looked around his sparse bedroom for what was left of the outfit I'd had on the previous night. I needed to leave. Sean and I had just had a crash course in relationship upgrading, and I wasn't so certain that the evening’s events had accomplished what I'd hoped they would. I was sure that he knew how I felt about him, to say the least, but sex didn't make a relationship, and I was concerned that we'd tipped the scales a wee bit too far in that direction.

Easing off the bed to start the scavenger hunt for my clothes, I fumbled around his dimly lit room. I was still wearing my tunic and I found my boots relatively easily, but it took a while to track down my bra that was dangling off the corner of the upper kitchen cabinets. My tights and underwear were a lost cause; they had a date with the trash.

I put what was left of my clothes on quietly and tiptoed back to his room to find him still sacked out in bed. Apparently, I’d worn him out. Until that moment, I wasn't even positive sure that he slept at all.

I looked at him lying peacefully in the bed, the scant light playing up his chiseled features. He looked younger, like he had when we'd had our run-in at the club months ago—when life was simpler. Life may not have been simple anymore, but seeing him like that made it so much more tolerable.

With a smile on my face, I walked over to the bed and bent down beside him. A dark, wavy lock of his hair had gone astray and I played with it, thinking about how I'd never seen this side of Sean—the soft side. Not necessarily because he hadn't wanted me to, but more likely because timing never allowed it. I liked it immensely. He looked vulnerable―peaceful.

He looked human.

Leaning over to give him a whisper of a kiss in the center of his forehead, my blood rushed with the contact. I still didn't know why that happened, why he and I were like gasoline and a lit match, but as soon as we touched we ignited. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.

I smoothed down his hair before standing and turned to leave the room, trying to be conscious of how much noise I was making. I didn't make it far. As I started to walk away, he caught my wrist.

“Love me and leave me?” Sean said, smiling wide. “I feel so used. I never took you for that kind of girl, Ruby. Perhaps I've underestimated you yet again.”

“I have to go,” I whispered, trying to delicately pull away from his hold.

“No,” he replied, pushing up off the bed. “You have to stay.”

I tried to look him in the eyes, but his chest and abs were just too distracting. It brought out the slightest chuckle from him.

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