Shift (Hearts and Arrows Book 2) by Staci Hart

Author:Staci Hart [Hart, Staci]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-23T16:00:00+00:00

Dillon had been thinking about Kat all day.

He had thought about her in the gym, sweat on his brow and muscles aching, imagining the fight she be attending through her eyes. He’d thought about her as he cooked lunch for himself and Owen, wondering if she’d ever see the inside of his apartment. He’d thought about her while he got ready to go to the bar, changing his clothes more times than he’d admit. He’d worried in the car on the way to MacLennan’s that, somehow, the night before had been a fluke or a dream.

He worried, gripping the brass handle of the bar door, that he’d fuck up the tenuous balance he’d found with her.

Unfamiliar nerves flitted through him as he pulled the door open and stepped inside with Owen at his back. Dillon scanned for her, finding her so easily, she could have been the North Star.

She leaned against the long wall of liquor, illuminated from above by the bar lights, her long hair braided loosely and hanging over one shoulder. Her cheeks were high as she talked to her sister, and when she laughed, her face was so bright that he found himself smiling too.

Owen stepped around him, and Kiki turned like she’d sensed him. And then Kat met his eyes, catching him and pulling him over.

Kiki trotted around the bar and to Owen, slipping her arms into his jacket and around his waist, lifting her chin to kiss Owen hello, and Dillon just kept on smiling, aware only distantly of the sense of peace and rightness of the moment.

Mostly, he was consumed by the nearness of her as he sat at the bar, their eyes locked from the moment they’d met and for a long stretch across the bar, the two still and silent.

The song on the jukebox changed, and Kat blinked, cheeks flushing. She looked down at a stack of cocktail napkins and tossed one in front of him. Her tiny freckles peppered her cheeks and the bridge of her nose like little stars.

“Glass of water?” she asked, still not meeting his eyes again, watching her hand as she reached for a glass instead.

“Yeah,” he answered. “You okay?”

She looked up then, the hint of a frown she’d had on fading. “Yeah, I’m good.”

He smirked, not buying it at all. In fact, he had a strong intuition that she was just as hung up on him as he was on her and a followup thought that she wasn’t entirely sure how she felt about it.

Kat seemed to read his expression just as well and playfully rolled her eyes, the flush on her cheeks deepening just enough to betray her. She filled his glass. “Ready for your fight?”

He shrugged. “Once I get into the ring, my brain clicks into this zone; it’s always been automatic. So I don’t get bent by nerves. I just trust that it’ll work like it always does.”

She smiled down at the drink for a moment before looking at him with almond-shaped eyes. “I feel the same way about racing.

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