Thunderstruck: 90's Dude Series by Tamrin Banks

Author:Tamrin Banks [Banks, Tamrin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tamrin Banks
Published: 2023-08-11T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

Raymond

My heart lifts when she laughs loudly, her head thrown back. Her soft, golden-brown hair falls loose around her shoulders in a fluffy cloud of wild curls that beg to be touched. Almost without thinking, I stretch my hand out and caress her curls, like I’m pushing them behind her ears.

Her glance meets mine and the look in them makes me crawl closer. Slowly.

But I stop when her eyes shift. I’m not sure what she wants and I’m not presumptuous enough to push myself on her. I would never touch a woman that doesn’t want me to.

“Tell me more about yourself, Allie.” Tell me everything about you. I want to know it all.

She shrugs but it feels like her whole body has tightened up. “There’s not much to tell. My parents died. I went into foster care.”

“How did your parents die?”

“They were driving home from a movie.” She smiles but there’s something about it that tells me that the memory isn’t necessarily good. “I can picture them getting ready to go out and smiling at me. Sometimes those simple memories were the only things that kept me going in foster care. No matter how tough things got and how much was taken away from me, I always had those memories.”

“My dad insisted on taking my mom out at least once a month. It was their date night and they always dressed up to go out. He told me once that if a man loved you, he never forgot to make you feel special, wanted. Even after you got married, he would strive to make you feel special.”

She hangs her head and smiles. “She loved to go out and even though he’d rather stay home, he made a date night every month. That month was a new movie that she really wanted to see.”

A shaky breath hisses out of me when I see the tears in her chocolate eyes. “A drunk driver hit them head-on. Everyone was killed.”

“Oh, baby. I’m so sorry.” I move to touch her but she flinches back.

“I don’t need you to feel sorry for me. I had great parents. I just didn’t get to keep them. Some kids don’t.”

I lean back, sitting on my hands to keep from reaching out for her. “What happened in foster care?” Shit, I hope it’s nothing like I’m picturing. There are so many things that can happen.

She shakes her head. “Not that much really. It’s just that nobody seemed to want me. And even if they did at first, they didn’t want me the way I was. They wanted some perfect little girl that would fit their image. I was supposed to be quiet except when I was allowed to talk. I needed to try and fit it. Several couples had other kids that were in sports and they tried to get me to fit in with their kids. I was shuttled to soccer games and basketball. Whatever their kids were doing. And even if I didn’t want to do it.

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