The Space Between by Kristie Cook

Author:Kristie Cook [Cook, Kristie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Contemporary, Fantasy
ISBN: 9781939859013
Publisher: Ang'dora Productions, LLC
Published: 2013-03-28T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

“You’re hired,” I told Micah the next morning before popping the last strawberry into my mouth.

He looked at me across the makeshift table he’d created out of the scraps from my stairs. “You want to fix the place up?”

I shrugged. “May as well, right? Looks like I’ll be here for a while anyway.”

“Cool beans,” he said with a smile. “What about Bex?”

My shoulders sagged. “Maybe I’ll fly up there for a couple of days to make sure she’s okay.”

“Not alone, you won’t.”

“You have to stay here and work.”

“You’re not going alone, Jacey,” he said more firmly.

I considered arguing with him, but chose to drop the subject for now. I’d awoken in a relatively good mood—the first time in a long time—and I didn’t want to ruin it. Maybe I had accepted this fate of ours overnight and realized I must make the most of it, or maybe waking up in Micah’s arms had put me in high spirits.

I’d been a little worried when we first lay down together last night, since we possessed little control over ourselves with each other. Neither of us were virgins, of course, and we were both adults, and we seemed to be more permanently bound than any married couple, considering the bonds our souls had made, so sex didn’t have to be a big issue. But I’d learned too late what people meant when they said relinquishing your virginity to someone was a gift, and I’d regretted every sexual encounter I’d had to date. Not that there were lots, but in hindsight, one time had been too many.

I’d hung around enough guys since then, had been exposed to enough porno and seen enough sex in public to learn guys worshipped the cootchie. They talked about it frequently and thought about it even more. They wanted to see it, touch it, taste it, master it. As if once they came out on the day they were born, all they could think about was how to get back in. They may take you out, treat you like a princess and maybe even really care about you, but as soon as you give them access to the jewel between your legs, you’ve made their dreams come true. You’ve given them a slice of heaven. And not every guy deserves to have that, not my slice of heaven anyway.

Like I said, I’d come to appreciate this too late to keep my virginity, which was the most precious slice of all, but now I knew better. I decided a long time ago I would only give my little gift to a man who deserved it, and I wasn’t sure yet if Micah was that man. My heart and soul felt certain, but my brain still questioned this unbelievable connection we had. What if this was all a fluke and a few months down the road, we went on our separate ways? Or even in a few weeks or days? The thought pained me, but I couldn’t see the future.

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