Tessa's Turn (West Series Book 9) by Jill Sanders

Author:Jill Sanders [Sanders, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grayton Press
Published: 2016-05-09T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

He was still running on the natural high a few hours later. There were three empty beer glasses sitting in front of him and two in front of Tessa. Empty shot glasses were scattered around the table.

Alex and Grant hadn’t been able to make it, but that didn’t stop everyone else he knew from showing up. He was surprised that they all stayed around after he’d sung the last song. They’d called for an encore and he’s sung a few classic Johnny Cash songs he knew.

Tessa was pretty much sitting in his lap all night and they had spent a few songs twirling around the dance floor. She’d even spun around once with her father who had shown up just before he’d gone onto the stage. The old man had cried several times during their song. During the other songs, Tessa had wrapped her arms around him.

He’d watched her closely when the old man had taken the school teacher’s hand and walked with her to the dance floor for a slower song. Instead of anger, she’d watched them with anxiety. When he pulled her closer, she felt like she was about to jump out of her skin, so, he’d taken her hand and pulled her out on the dance floor, too.

He’d made sure to hold her tight and run his hands over her slowly. He’d rubbed his lips over her collar bone, until he’d felt her body melt next to his. Then he knew she’d forgotten all about her dad dancing with another woman.

To be honest, he’d even forgotten the reason for pulling her onto the dance floor, other than wanting to have her in his arms. Seeing the way her hair caught the lights flashing above them and smelling the perfume on her soft skin flooded him with a desire that outweighed anything else.

His sole purpose for the rest of the night was to see how long he could keep her next to him. When they finally called last call, he was pretty sure he’d found himself not only a new career, but a new purpose as well.

“Walk me home?” Tessa said, leaning on him as they walked out the front door.

“Try and stop me.” He smiled down at her and brushed a strand of her hair aside. She leaned on him and he wrapped his arm around her. “Besides, I parked over there, remember?”

Her smile was her answer. They walked for a moment before she broke the silence. “No one could stop talking about you tonight.” She rolled her head back and met his eyes.

“It’s your songs they were talking about.”

She broke in with a chuckle. “You can’t take a compliment.” She stopped just under a streetlight and wrapped her arms around him. “You have natural talent. Something I had to work years at”—she shook her head slightly, but the smile remained on her lips— “you just have it.” She snapped her fingers.

“Do the years of singing in the shower count?” he joked.

She smiled, then reached up on her toes and placed her lips softly on his.

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