Secret Obsession by Katie Reus

Author:Katie Reus
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: KR Press, LLC
Published: 2016-05-02T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Raegan wanted to tell Ford that he didn’t need to check her condo, not since she’d had her security system armed. But it would have been a fruitless effort. He was totally geared up, the energy rolling off him a little intense.

He’d point-blank told her uncle that he’d be the one taking her home and looking after her. And nobody ever told Keith Caldwell anything.

She certainly hadn’t disagreed, even if she didn’t need someone to look after her. Not in her own home.

Tonight had scared the hell out of her but she felt safe in her home. And while she didn’t necessarily feel like an obligation to him, she also didn’t want this to be a defining thing in their potential relationship.

He was older than her and likely way more experienced. She liked that. But she also didn’t want him to feel like she needed taking care of. It made things feel too unequal between them.

While he did a full-scale sweep of her place, she headed to the kitchen and pulled out a bottle of Tylenol. She took two with a glass of red wine instead of water because yeah, it was one of those nights.

“Ugh,” she muttered to herself, hating the whole situation.

“What’s wrong?” Ford was suddenly there in her small kitchen, his expression worried.

Half smiling, she shook her head. “Nothing. Just annoyed in general.” Even thinking that the person who’d tried to attack her tonight was the same one from last night was beyond scary. She always thought stalkers left creepy messages and made heavy breathing phone calls. If someone had been harassing her, she’d have gone to the police. And her cousins. It was like this insanity had come out of the blue.

“Do you want to rest?” Ford looked unsure what to do as he stood there. As if he wished he had a specific target to fight.

“No. Look, thank you for driving me home and for coming to the event when Grant called you. That was so sweet. But don’t feel like you need to stay or anything. Or to take care of me.” She wanted that out there, wanted him to understand she didn’t want to be—

“Oh, I’m staying.”

She blinked at his matter-of-fact tone. “Excuse me?”

“On the couch, but I’m staying. Or I’ll walk you up to Porter and Lizzy’s place. You’re not going to be alone tonight.”

His bossy tone rankled her. Setting her wine glass down, she pushed away from the counter and stalked toward him. “I’m grateful for what you’ve done, but you don’t get to tell me what to do.”

“Pretty sure I just did,” he answered, his gaze dropping to her mouth.

She was torn between being offended and turned on. Raegan didn’t like men to tell her what to do. She didn’t like anyone to tell her what to do. ‘A problem with authority,’ her mother had always said.

But heat pooled between her thighs at that take-charge tone of Ford’s. She certainly wasn’t going to tell him that—it would just encourage him.

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