Starboard Vow by K.M. Jackson

Author:K.M. Jackson [Jackson, K.M.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: River Hills Press
Published: 2020-04-10T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Aaron couldn’t get the shower cold enough, so he gave up trying. There was no cooling off from that dance with Jules anyway. As the water streamed over his body, he gave up on torturing himself and turned the tap to hot, letting the water temperature match that of the blood pulsing through his body, and proceeded to soap up. He let out a sigh and put his head back against the shower wall. He was exhausted. Not so much physically, though this had been a long day, but mentally. No, emotionally, since though geographically he was currently in the same location as Jules, he didn’t feel any closer to her.

Check that, he thought, as the image of her flashed in his mind. The dilation of her pupils, the pulsing of her lips and slight beads of perspiration that he saw dapple her skin at the end of their dance—there was no faking that. She might say she was totally over him, but her body’s response to him said something different. Something instinctual, almost primal. She couldn’t hide that. And he couldn’t hide or deny what her reaction did to him.

It was probably for the best they were interrupted by the crowd and her getting skittish. He almost, without any talk, let it all go and took her right then and there on the dance floor with all eyes on the two of them. Wanting to taste those sweet lips like nothing he’d ever wanted to taste before in his life. At this he didn’t care who knew how he felt, but knew he had to tread carefully, or everything could blow up in his face. A move like that and she could good and well be done with him forever, plus his career could be over. Or close to it. Sure, he could maybe get past the studio but the press, the internet? They could be quite unforgiving.

But what did his career matter? Yes, he was well on the way to something big, but with each small victory he’d gotten, it felt incredibly hollow when he couldn’t share his joy with Jules. The fact that she’d cut herself off from him completely burned him beyond belief. It was so unfair and one sided. Sure, a part of him, the logical part, got her reasoning but his heart could never quite catch up. The fact that she used him and his career as her excuse for their break just didn’t sit right.

Aaron dunked his head under the spray, trying to wash the dark thoughts he was having from his mind as he rinsed shampoo out of his hair. Dark thoughts mixed with pent up sexual frustration didn’t bode well, and he’d frankly had his fill of both over the past year. Turning off the shower in frustration, he dried off, wrapping a towel around his waist as he stepped back into his suite. He grabbed a beer in further pursuit of cooling down and once again reached for the divorce papers she’d sent as he pushed aside the box with her ring in it.

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