Tempted Beyond Relief by Wick Christa & Wick C.M

Author:Wick, Christa & Wick, C.M.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-05T16:00:00+00:00

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Rhea

Leaving Wylie's bed that Sunday afternoon, I put a distance between us I didn't want. But after chasing me for a month and finally getting me to surrender, he wasn't about to retreat.

He just needed a new plan of attack, something all his years in the military made him an expert at formulating. His primary resources were the kids and the shelter. Harbor House was the only place he could be sure of encountering me and the kids were my known vulnerability.

Seasonal considerations played into his campaign. The teens were two months into summer break and four out of every five weren't content to spend the entire day entertaining themselves with all the new books he had donated to the common room. That meant arguments over the remote control and more disturbing activity, like some of the kids getting picked up for panhandling.

So the sneaky bastard brought in his father's mineral samples and called on the resident expert—me—to teach the kids about geology. Initially, that only attracted two kids, Rachelle and her ghost, Eric. Rachelle already knew as much as I did after discovering the small collection I had in my room and reading the books I kept on geology. Eric just liked to be around the willowy teen beauty.

Undeterred by the clear lack of interest, Wylie got Director Coombs to sign-off on a day long field trip to Greene County in the northeastern corner of the state. Coombs only signed off because it was all at Wylie's expense, including the four passenger vans he wound up having to rent once the rest of the kids caught on to the fact that if they listened to all the boring "rock" talk, they could get out of the city for a full day.

The typical teenage disinterest that had prevailed when Wylie initially brought the mineral samples to the shelter evaporated after the first field discovery in Greene County. Eric found a piece of rose quartz, which he promptly gifted to Rachelle. Almost simultaneously, Alex found a quarter fragment of a thin shelled quartz geode, the crystals so clear he swore he'd discovered a diamond.

Seeing the smiles and excitement on more than twenty faces that had been filled with sophisticated boredom only seconds before, and then turning to find Wylie's gaze locked on me, I was a goner all over again.

I spent the following Sunday, and a whole lot of Sundays after that, in Wylie's bed.

We were a couple, sort of. I had a job he couldn't go near and another job he was often at but not as my boyfriend, just the most popular volunteer to ever walk the halls of Harbor House. But we didn't fight about it.

Not exactly...

I mean, hardly ever...

"I'm just saying you shouldn't be taking a bus back and forth to that part of town and you damn sure shouldn't be cutting through that alley before or after work."

Wylie had me on my back, naked, his big body every bit as nude and draped over mine. Our

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