Touch of Regret: The Collectors Book 1 by Autumn Reed

Author:Autumn Reed [Reed, Autumn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-26T16:00:00+00:00

I took special care in dressing for my date with Trevor. The tweed skirt, paired with an emerald silk shirt that enhanced the slight green hue to my gray eyes, was dressier than needed for a Sunday afternoon at the antique shop, but I didn’t care. My clothes were my armor. As were the dainty white gloves with floral rhinestone embellishments at the wrists.

Trevor wasn’t waiting at the door of the café like usual, so I requested a table in the quietest part of the restaurant. We always met early enough to avoid the after-church crowd, but the tables would still fill up quickly over the next half-hour. Hopefully, I would be finished with the hard part of our conversation by then . . . whatever it ended up being. I still hadn’t decided what to say to him.

I noticed Trevor out the window before he even entered the café. His well-worn jeans hugged him in the right places, as did his black Henley. His blond hair glistened in the sunlight, and I guessed he’d gotten out of the shower minutes before leaving his apartment. He probably still smelled like soap, and I longed to snuggle into his chest and inhale his scent. It was simple. Comfortable. Like our relationship had been . . . and, suddenly, I wanted that back. Needed it, even.

Like a lightbulb switching on, I knew what to do. I would tell him the truth. He could handle it, and once he knew about the Collectors, they wouldn’t be as much of a threat. We could anticipate their next move and plan a counterattack.

I’d been making this so much more difficult than it needed to be. Honesty was always the best policy, right?

My smile must have been huge as he approached the table, because he was looking at me strangely. But that was okay. Soon, he would know everything.

“Morning, Adele.” He leaned down to place a soft kiss on my lips, and in that split second, my entire world crumbled. Again.

With a Tim McGraw song playing in the background, my breath quickens involuntarily with feelings of attraction.

A pretty, dark-haired woman smiles up at me—no, at Trevor—and says, “I’ve never danced with a firefighter before. Are they all as big as you?”

His arms tighten around her curvy waist, and the jolts of attraction ignite and burn into unmistakable lust.

Trevor laughs. “I’m going to be a gentleman and choose not to answer that question.”

The woman blushes, her eyes shining with laughter. “I’m sorry. I wasn’t thinking. I didn’t—”

Trevor interrupts her with a kiss, and adrenaline rushes through me. It’s like I’m—Trevor’s—leaping from the tallest of buildings without fear of falling. It’s exciting. It’s beyond devastating.

He releases the woman’s mouth, and that’s when my chest tightens painfully.

“Shit, I’m sorry,” he says, the guilt clear in his tone. “I shouldn’t have done that.”

Pushed back into the present, I blinked at Trevor as he took the seat across from me. Despite the rush of emotion he unwittingly transferred to me, all I felt was numb.

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