Southern Love by Synithia Williams

Author:Synithia Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, contemporary
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2012-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20

The buzzing of Tasha’s cell phone interrupted her count of the basketball equipment. She sighed in frustration, not because of the phone’s interruption, but because she’d have to count the equipment for the tenth time. Thoughts of Jared had distracted her the previous nine times. She pulled her phone from her pocket and saw a text from Shayla.

Big party in ATL this weekend. Come, you need the break.

Tasha put the phone back in her pocket. She did need the distraction. Her agreement with Jared to continue their arrangement for one week had easily turned into two. He’d turned up the heat so much, by the end of the first week she hadn’t even brought up ending things. She’d gotten caught up. The realization wasn’t surprising. All it took was a phone call or text from Jared and she was ready.

She’d been with him almost every night for the past four weeks. Now she was hooked and it was getting harder to get out of his bed and go home. He always said she didn’t have to leave, but he never asked her to stay. Refusing to spend the night was the last front she could put up to pretend she didn’t crave him, but it was useless. She wanted to stay, and he wanted her there.

If it were just sex then maybe she wouldn’t have gotten attached. But she’d learned more about Jared over the past weeks than she’d known in the years of working with him. They talked about his business, a new offer to reissue his DVD, their childhood memories, and happenings at the Rec Commission. Since the night he’d tended to her allergies, there’d been other nights they hadn’t had sex and just hung out and watched the NBA playoffs. The lines were so blurry Tasha didn’t even know what label to put on what they were doing.

But she could label what was happening to her: she was falling for Jared, and she was falling hard.

Her phone buzzed again. Cursing, she put down her clipboard and checked the message.

I’m hungry.

It was Jared. Damn, damn, damn. She knew what he was hungry for and it wasn’t food. Her face flushed as she remembered the last time he’d texted those words. He’d shown up at the Center twenty minutes later and feasted on her inside one of the storage rooms. Her panties became damp as her mind’s eye visualized what they must have looked like: her back against the wall, legs open, and Jared kneeling, dining to his heart’s content.

Tasha kicked the wall and grabbed her foot as pain sliced through her big toe. She never should have asked him for the favor. That’s why Shayla invited her to Atlanta. The birthday party for Jared’s mother was this weekend. Once Tasha had updated Shayla on her current situation with Jared and how he continued to ask her to go, Shayla had quickly pointed out it was time to stop sleeping with Jared and move on.

Her phone buzzed again and she seriously considered throwing it against the wall.

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