The Love You Hate: A Charge Man Novel (The Charge Men Series Book 1) by Rachel Robinson

Author:Rachel Robinson [Robinson, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-05T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Presley

I glance across the bakery to watch Nate serve a customer at the counter. He’s been there all morning while I’ve been stuck in the back on bake duty. We had a breakthrough last night and I was so close to kissing him that it’s quite literally all I can think about. There isn’t one time from my past I can remember being so obsessed with someone’s lips. If I wanted a kiss, I took it. If I wanted even more than that, it was mine. That’s not why I’m hell-bent on having Nate for myself, though. There’s an air about him that genuinely makes me feel whole. It’s so cliché and don’t even ask me to explain it, because I can’t, but he is the butter to my bread. The butter is fattening, but I know it will taste so good. When he’s angry or being hard to get a read on, it only intrigues me more. It begs the question, why? How can his willpower possibly be that strong?

Ryan comes over with a tray of croissants and tells me to watch out. After he passes by, he seems to realize I’m not working, and who I’m fixated on. “Yo, earth to Presley, are you, uh, going to join the living? I take it you and Nate haven’t worked through your aggression yet?”

That pulls me from my daydream. “Explain what you mean by that.”

“You want to eat each other for dinner. How it hasn’t happened yet is beyond me. What do you think the back and forth banter is about? The fights that aren’t really fights, but more of foreplay? I’m not a rocket scientist, just a simple man, but it’s plain enough for me to figure things out. Why haven’t you?”

I narrow my eyes at his broad back. “There’s something more I don’t know. I think he might actually be attached to someone else.” Really attached. Marriage attached. It’s the only thing that makes sense. Well, if I’m being vain it’s the only reason I can come up with why he’s not responding to my advances like I think he should. He’s attracted to me. He wants me just as bad as I want him, and yet, here I stand concocting scenarios in my mind of us naked, sweaty, and breathless. “He’s hard to get a read on. Incredibly difficult.”

“That’s because he’s scared of you,” Ryan deadpans. “How could he not? You’re intimidating.”

“What? There’s no way that’s it.”

Ryan shakes his head, looking confused. “Maybe you’re right. He did ask for a few days off because he had to leave Gold Hawke to deal with some family business. Could be going to visit a woman or something, but I just don’t think that’s it.”

My stomach sinks and my heart flutters as the truth sets in. I’m right. He’s leaving. What if he never comes back? If the lure of whoever the woman is, is so strong that he stays? Nate isn’t bound for life to this place, and I am.

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