The Ground Beneath (You and Me Book 1) by Stephanie Vercier

Author:Stephanie Vercier [Vercier, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

ALLISON

“Thank you for at least letting me know you’d be out for the night,” Sheila tells me when I come into the office this morning. Like usual, she’s beaten me here, so I didn’t have to feel any embarrassment in facing her when Hunter dropped me off at her condo to shower and change for the day.

“Of course,” I say, “and I’m thankful to have someone worrying over me.”

“I wouldn’t be doing my duty to your parents if I didn’t worry about you.”

This is when I hug her. It must come as a total surprise because it takes her a while to put her arms around me in return. I really am thankful for this woman, a woman who was once such a good friend to my parents but since has had a falling out I’ve still not had the nerve to ask about.

“This is wonderful,” she says, finally pulling out of our embrace, “but we really do need to get back to work. This business isn’t going to run itself!”

“You’re right,” I say. “I’m just glad we’re good.”

She nods, appearing to accept my assertion that we are in fact okay when it comes to my relationship with Hunter and all that it entails.

It ends up being a busy day, not just for myself but for Hunter too. He was needed at practice today, “to give pointers and look for deficits,” so he’ll be in the thick of it until evening. As for Sheila and I, her schedule is booked completely solid, and I’m doing everything I can to do a good job and exceed her expectations. But I do admit to myself that signing on Henry and Theresa Carmichael has created a tidal wave of tasks I wish I didn’t have to do.

And it’s a little hard to completely focus on everything with my thoughts floating back to Hunter. It happens so many times that I have to start pinching my wrist just to stop them. Being loved and being able to return that love is a euphoric feeling, to know there is one person in the world who wants to share everything with you, who wants to spend their entire life with you. But it’s frightening too, because I’ve experienced something similar before with Wyatt, only to discover much of that feeling was based on lies about who Wyatt really was.

Hunter isn’t like Wyatt, of course. He’s not trying to make me into something that I’m not, and yet, it’s still all a little scary.

“We’ll take things as slow as you need them to be,” Hunter told me this morning, just after he’d kissed me outside of the elevator in Sheila’s condo building.

I’d thanked him with a kiss in return, while being half afraid if I took things too slow, I’d lose him.

But moving too fast—when I felt like we’d already fallen in love at warp speed—is just as dangerous. There hasn’t been time enough for Hunter to really think about the drawbacks of me being young

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