Take Me Down by Julie Kriss

Author:Julie Kriss [Kriss, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Five Doors Creative
Published: 2018-04-05T04:00:00+00:00

Eighteen

Tara

I hadn’t told Jace what I was doing on my Saturday off, and he hadn’t asked. For once, was glad for his stubborn sealed-off ways. There was no one in the world who was less nosy than Jace Riggs, and today it worked to my benefit.

I took a cab to get my car and headed to Westlake’s north end, where they were building the new subdivisions. Maybe it was hopeful of the town to develop them, but Westlake had a nice middle-class population if you were on the right side of the tracks. That population was growing, and some of them were buying the new houses in town.

I left streets that had big old trees and drove down brand-new roads, the houses with no grass or fresh sod laid down, some of the sites still piled with machinery and dirt. These weren’t going to be mansions; they were small, modest places, mostly townhouses, for young couples to live in as they moved their way up. I knew, because until eight months ago I was going to live in one myself.

Kyle still lived in the house we’d bought. It was his house now—he’d paid me my half of the down payment and taken over the mortgage. He said he liked the place, he could afford it, and he didn’t want to leave. That was fine with me, so I’d packed my things and moved into my little rental.

I pulled into the driveway—Kyle’s SUV was there, so he was home, just like we’d arranged—and pulled some empty boxes from my trunk. Then I mounted the front porch steps and rang the doorbell.

He opened the door almost immediately; he’d probably been waiting. He was wearing jeans and a pullover sweatshirt—his day-off wear. It was rare for Kyle not to be on shift on a Saturday, and for a second I remembered how well I used to know his schedule.

“Hey,” he said. He had showered, shaved. He was a nice-looking guy, and he was strong and fit because of his job. He made good money and now had a nice house. By any definition, he was a catch.

“Hi,” I said to him. I held up the boxes. “Thanks for letting me in. I won’t take long.”

“Sure,” he said. He stepped aside to let me in, and I walked upstairs, ready to collect the last few things I hadn’t been able to grab when I moved out. I was halfway down the upstairs hall when it dawned on me that the stuff I needed was in the dresser and the closet in the bedroom. Kyle’s bedroom, formerly our bedroom. And he was following me down the hall.

I shook it off. It didn’t matter; we were over. We’d been over for a long time. I was not going back to Kyle, and nothing was going to happen in that bedroom. I just had to get this over with and go.

You’re being too nice about him, said Jace’s voice in my head. He should never have fucked you if you didn’t like it, if you had to fake it.

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