The Love Interest by Kayley Loring

Author:Kayley Loring [Loring, Kayley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-15T16:00:00+00:00

Jack Irons didn’t consider many people his friend, but there were a few people he could trust and there were a few who owed him a favor. He had one trustworthy friend who owed him a favor, who also happened to own a cabin. It was up by Lake Tahoe, off the beaten track. This was the best kind of friend, and it was the best kind of cabin. It was clean and private. It had the best home security system money could buy, and Jack had already acquainted himself with the premises and every possible escape route. The water pressure in the shower was excellent. More importantly, Jack was taking a shower in the master bathroom while Catalina was in the kitchen making dinner.

After zigzagging across California and western Nevada for three days straight, this was a welcome interlude in what had felt like an epic, potentially fatal, improvised jazz performance. Of the two of them, Jack was never quite sure who was the solo artist and who was the accompanying musician. He didn’t know who was seducing whom, and he no longer cared. All he knew was he liked the world a little more again now that Catalina was in it. Even though his entire life had been disrupted and keeping her alive and safe just might kill him.

He also knew he wanted her in bed with him before the night was through. There hadn’t been time for it in the few days since they’d met, but nearly every frenzied minute had been a prelude to sex. That’s how it felt to Jack, anyway.

He toweled off, gave himself a quick once-over in the steamed-up bathroom mirror, and put on the briefs and jeans he’d bought at the Walmart on the way here. Catalina had insisted on buying the DVD of a Pixar movie that was on sale by the cash register when he’d told her he hadn’t seen it. He had always thought he’d lived far too much of a life in his thirty-six years, but in the past few days, this woman had asked him if he’d seen or heard of or done twenty-seven different things, and the answer to twenty-six of them had been no.

When she’d ask him if he had ever been in love, he’d remained silent. He’d looked out the window of the Greyhound bus, and she’d touched his cheek with the backs of her fingers before resting her head on his shoulder and falling asleep. By the time she’d woken up, half an hour later, Jack had finally admitted to himself that he was in trouble. He had held his breath almost the entire time, it seemed, trying not to disturb her. He had inhaled the fragrance of her hair and had become hypnotized by the rhythm of the rising and falling of her chest. He had counted the number of freckles on her forearm and contemplated the meaning of the words that were tattooed around her wrist: What you seek is seeking you.

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