The Secrets Between Us_Billionaire CEO Romance by Katie Mettner

Author:Katie Mettner [Mettner, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-22T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

MERCY

The hot tub lid landed with a thud and I stood back, gathering my supplies. After neglecting it for too long, I had taken a little time to get it up and running properly again. Once a certain somebody took off tomorrow, I was going to climb in it. It was the one thing I found that helped the phantom pain in my arm when the weather was bad. A nice long soak followed by a warm pair of pajamas, and I’d pass out under my electric blanket and sleep like a baby.

“Who are you kidding, Mercy?” I asked the open air. “You’ll lie awake in bed and think about Hayes and how if your life was different, you’d be in his bed.” The sun dropped lower in the sky and I walked to the shed to stow away my supplies again. “Things aren’t different though, Mercy. You’d be damn well smart to remember that, too.”

Once my supplies were shelved, I took a moment to check the oil on the ATV. We had a record-breaking month of snowfall in December and I put hours of time on the engine. Most people would say I’m obsessive about my equipment, but only I understood how much I depended on it to live out here independently.

After we got back from our walk in the woods, which was actually the most amazing two hours of my life, he had disappeared into his cabin. I watched him walk away and ninety-nine percent of me wanted him to keep walking. I wanted him to walk to his car, get in, drive away, and never look back. The other one percent of me wanted him to stay here and be a bad idea. Who was I kidding? He was already a bad idea. He was a bad idea I let get in my pants and blow my mind. God, he was an incredible lover with skills beyond any man I’d ever been with before. “What the fuck were you thinking, Mercy?” I asked the empty shed. “What were you thinking? You can’t undo this now.”

It was the question I asked myself on repeat while I finished my chores. When I came around the circular drive on the plow earlier, I’d catch a glimpse of him walking on the lake with Beast, but by the third time around the circle, he had disappeared. I had no idea what he’d been up to the last four hours. Whatever it was, at least he wasn’t here in my space. At least he wasn’t testing my resolve to never touch him again. I was going to keep him at arm’s length until he left. I had to. Depending on which arm of mine I used to measure that, objects in mirror may be closer than they appear.

I snickered at the joke and glanced down at Justice. It was currently sporting a fuzzy striped knee-high to keep it warm. They make limb warmers for amputees, but why bother when a regular sock does the trick? You learn to get by with what you have when you live out here.

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