Searching (Hidden Truths Book 1) by Quell T. Fox

Author:Quell T. Fox [Fox, Quell T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-28T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Leona

After the extra steamy bath I took, I need to do something to cool down. Thankfully I put my hair up and it didn’t get too wet, so I get dressed and go out to the backyard for a walk. I go down to the beach, needing to collect my thoughts on top of lowering my body temperature. There are chairs down here that stay year round for times like this. I pull one a little closer to the water’s edge and sit down, the cool plastic going right through the material of my sweatpants and burning my skin. It’s welcomed. I sit for a while, thinking about everything going on and how my life has taken such an abrupt turn. And I wonder when it’s going to stop. If it ever will. It seems my entire life has been filled with last minute turns on a road to an unknown destination. I thought I knew where I was going in life, but I’ve recently learned nothing is set in stone. Life is not definite.

I think about the promise I made to Thorne and wonder if I’m ready to take the step or if I was just caught up in the moment. Am I ready for this? Especially with someone I don’t know all that well, someone who has a reputation like his. I push the thought from my mind though; I’m choosing not to dwell on it.

There is certainly an attraction to Thorne. A strong one. And it isn’t just physical. It’s much, much deeper than that. I’m not the wait until marriage type of girl but I’d rather not lose my virginity to a complete asshole.

Thorne is not a complete asshole.

That much I know.

I don’t want to end up a thirty-year-old virgin. People finding out about it is also bad. It may become a competition or conquest because that’s how pathetic guys can be. What those girls said, it could be true. It makes sense, but I’m choosing to believe in Thorne because what I feel from him is like nothing I’ve ever felt before. Maybe they are right about him though. Maybe that’s who he was, but I’m not so sure it’s who he is now.

I like Thorne, and keeping on with my new mantra, life is short, I decide I am ready for this. I want this.

Not that there are any plans in place or anything. I have no idea when we would ever have time to ourselves in a decent enough location. My family is always home and having him over with them home is fine but going up to my room won’t be an option. The guys would have a field day.

Unless… unless I decide I want to move over to the guest house. It’s been offered to me on more than one occasion. I could sneak him in easier over there than I could in the main house. But am I ready for that? Being alone with all that space? It’s not like I could move in and expect Thorne to do the same.

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