The Plan by Karla Sorensen

Author:Karla Sorensen [Sorensen , Karla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: novel
Publisher: Dutch Girl Publishing LLC
Published: 2022-02-08T16:00:00+00:00

Erik

The bed in my sister’s guest room was fine. It sagged a bit in the middle, but it only bothered me when I slept for too long. When I got home from dropping off Lydia and calling an annoyed Luke Pierson, the apartment was blessedly quiet.

Adaline was hardly ever home because she spent most of her time at work anyway. Her apartment wasn’t much more than an expensive holding spot for her clothes and furniture, which served me just fine.

I’d worked out in the gym on the first floor of the apartment building, angry music blaring in my ears so I could drown out a single thought of Lydia.

I pinched my eyes shut because if I started down that train of thought, I’d curse myself out something mighty.

Turning on the bed, I buried my face in the pillow and sighed. The sun still wasn’t up, but my internal alarm clock had me unable to get back to sleep.

Sleep, I thought with an angry huff.

Even in my sleep, she’d plagued me.

Bare legs and black shorts. Blond hair against a naked back.

Nothing explicit had happened, but every second of the dream had been a whirring catalog of all her softest parts.

Pink lips, satin smooth against my thumb.

A stubborn chin and flashing blue eyes.

I rolled onto my back and stared up at the white ceiling. It was like a rotating list of why I’d had to walk away.

Noticing any of it was a huge fucking problem, even without that fucking kid watching us. The first—on its own—was cause for concern. Something I’d already been shoving down when we left the Wolves facility. But when my notice of the first distracted me from the presence of the second, I was no longer capable of doing my job.

Not well enough, at least. Not to my standards.

There was nothing about it that I could romanticize or justify. Yeah, Lydia had looked at me more than once with proverbial hearts in her eyes, but she was young. Too young for me.

At twenty-two, she thought she knew what she wanted, but if I thought about who I’d been at the same age, I’d find very little of that man left.

Resting my hand over my bare chest, I took a few deep breaths and tried to focus on something else. Anything else. Through the closed door of my bedroom, I heard my sister get up and start a pot of coffee. I’d have to explain what happened to her before she heard about it from Molly.

If Luke had been frustrated with me, then no doubt I’d have a line of women buried deep in the Wolves hierarchy who’d want my balls on a silver platter for walking away without notice.

From the nightstand, my phone buzzed. I rolled over and saw my mom’s name, but it was too early, too soon to prep myself for whatever she wanted from me going into their anniversary celebration.

That was the other problem. Lydia had been such a perfect distraction from my slowly lengthening absence from home.

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