The Beginning by Allyson Young & Peri Elizabeth Scott

Author:Allyson Young & Peri Elizabeth Scott [Young, Allyson & Scott, Peri Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781721097890
Published: 2018-07-18T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Inside the bunkhouse, she blinked in surprise before the door closed and she was left in the dark. In every regard. Knowing the area like the back of her hand, she crept to her bunk, quietly wrestling out of her clothes and then climbing into bed.

“Hot date?” Marcia hissed.

Shit. “I was at Stone’s.” Partly true. Could the other woman pick up on Addy’s insane need? She tentatively sniffed. She could scent Jesse, unless that was her imagination.

“Huh. Anything we should know?”

“He’s thinking on those rumors.” That was as close the truth as she dared approach, right now, because it was for Mitchell to share when he was ready. But most people were thinking about the rumors. How could they not with the horrors some had already witnessed—or experienced? They just rarely talked about it, pretending, like her.

“Good. He should be,” Marcia whispered back. “Somebody has to.”

Lying there, listening to the snores and sonorous breathing that filled the space, not to mention some other sounds she didn’t need to hear, Addy stared into the darkness. She thought about her … involvement with Jesse, aware she was naked in her bed.

Touching her core, still heated and damp, she pulled her hand away. She wanted to save that for Jesse, assuming he was still interested in the days to come. Frustrated but resolute, she punched her pillow. She had no doubt she’d see him in the morning and hugged that thought to her chest like the teddy bear she’d never had.

Shoving away all the dire warnings, those based on bitter experience, made her tired. They trickled in past the sensations tonight’s kiss had evoked—and his reverent touch. The way he hadn’t pushed and taken advantage of her emotional vulnerability. One seemingly positive interaction could hardly withstand the assault of dozens of the other kind. Yet it stayed with her, kind of a liquid warmth shot through with tendrils of … hope.

She’d try to be cautious, pace herself. He hadn’t pushed her, had given her space. Distracted her from Mitchell’s likely action. Slumber claimed her, mid-thought.

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