Sheer Suspicion by Hannah Ford

Author:Hannah Ford [Ford, Hannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-17T18:30:00+00:00

I did my best to push the encounter out of my mind.

Landon and I were over.

Which meant that whatever had happened to Abigail was not my concern. Paisley wasn’t my concern. I shouldn’t have been asking her questions, and I sure as hell shouldn’t have told her what I knew about Abigail wanting to tell Landon something about his father.

The only thing I needed to be concerned with was getting a job, and starting my life in New York.

Hopefully I would meet a nice boy, one who didn’t have a penchant for handcuffs and belts, one who I’d have perfectly nice sex with and –

Gah.

I pushed the thought of perfectly nice sex out of my mind, because it sounded completely lame.

I decided to walk home.

My body was thrumming with extra energy, and it was a beautiful day out. The morning humidity had burned off, leaving the sun shining down on Midtown. It was hot, but there was a slight breeze, and I decided to take the long way back home, slipping into my favorite stores to browse along the way.

There was a jewelry store on the upper East Side where everything was only two dollars, just the kind of store in which I could treat myself.

The store was nestled between a coffee shop and a Thai restaurant, and I inhaled the delicious scent of spicy noodles and caffeine as I grabbed a shopping basket and picked out a pair of cute rose gold hoop earrings.

A few minutes later, I was debating whether or not the blue stones in a pretty silver ring were going to come popping out within a couple of days when suddenly, I felt someone behind me.

I stiffened, my senses suddenly on alert.

I started to turn around, but then the clean, crisp scent of his cologne hit my nose, and his hands tightened around my waist.

“You’re not answering my calls.” His voice was low, melodic, a growl of demand that I felt settled low in my belly. The urge to turn around and fall to my knees overcame me – he’d trained me well.

Instead, I railed against it.

I froze, trapped. I couldn’t turn around –if I did, he would be right there, facing me, and the idea of that was too much to take.

“What do you want, Landon?” I asked, surprised at how calm and steady my voice sounded.

One of his hands left my waist and dipped into the basket I was holding, his cufflinks glittering under the lights of the store.

He pulled out the things I’d chosen and tossed them down onto the display in front of us.

“Hey!” I protested, but now his hand was back on my waist, trapping me.

“If you want jewelry, I will get you jewelry. Real jewelry, worthy of you, not some dime store crap.”

“I don’t want anything from you,” I said, and now the anger was taking over.

“Yes, you do.” He sounded arrogant, and I hated him. I hated him because he was a conceited asshole, but mostly I hated him because he was right.

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