So Tough to Tame by Victoria Dahl

Author:Victoria Dahl [Dahl, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781460319581
Google: WX3WEoMG3WAC
Amazon: 0373777892
Goodreads: 17622935
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

SHE WOKE UP to sun, thank God. The temperature didn’t matter to her, as long as it wasn’t raining. She had to get out for a run, and if she’d been forced into that workout room again, she would have lost her mind.

Last night had gone fantastically wrong, and Charlie was still reeling. She had to get out in the fresh air. She had to breathe.

If pressed, she would never have guessed that Walker could’ve been that sensitive about anything. She’d also never have guessed that any amount of irritation could keep him from free sex. His very favorite hobby was flirting. And he damn sure seemed to enjoy sex. But she’d pissed him off so much he’d walked away from it.

Or at least from her. She didn’t know where he’d gone last night, after all. Maybe to see some woman who didn’t care that he had trouble with reading. Or maybe to see Nicole.

Charlie pulled on her running clothes and dug a hoodie and gloves from a packing box in her closet.

It was okay. If he’d gone to see Nicole, then this little fling was over. That was all. No hard feelings.

But if he hadn’t, then Charlie needed to apologize and explain. She didn’t think he was dumb. She didn’t think there was a damn thing wrong with him except stubbornness. He had dyslexia, but he’d be able to read and write much more easily if he applied himself. Not well enough to read a book in a day, maybe, but well enough that it wouldn’t interfere with what he wanted in life.

“That’s none of your business,” she muttered as she pulled on her shoes. “You’re not his girlfriend.”

Then again, she was his friend. Surely that counted for something.

Pissed at herself and at Walker, she grabbed her headphones and headed out the door.

Walker’s door opened at the exact same time. They stared at each other in shock. Charlie’s shock quickly exploded into dismay. “Oh, my God! Walker, what happened to your face?”

He gave her a rather tight-lipped smile, probably because the left half of his bottom lip was swollen. She rushed across the landing to look closer. “Oh, no.” She reached carefully toward his black eye but didn’t touch it. “Are you okay? Were you in an accident?”

“Not exactly.”

In addition to the purple-and-black bruise around his eye and the fat lip, there was an angry red cut across one of his cheekbones. “Were you in a fight?”

“Yeah.”

“Walker! Where the hell did you go last night?”

He shut his apartment door and sighed. Then, instead of answering, he shrugged on his shearling coat and adjusted his hat.

“Oh. I see. None of my business?”

“Shit, Charlie. I don’t know. I just... I was pissed at you. I’m sorry.”

She nodded, waiting for him to go on and dreading it.

“I just wanted to get out of here and not think for a couple of hours.”

“But you don’t want me asking where you went. I see.” Her heart fell. Damn. She’d known this wasn’t for forever.

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