Touched by You by Summer Evans

Author:Summer Evans
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: interracial romance, romantic comedy, sports romance, contemporary romance, older woman
Publisher: Summer Evans
Published: 2017-07-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Rose

IT WAS TWO IN THE MORNING by the time I got back to my apartment. It was the hardest thing I’d ever done, leaving Jackson behind at that party with the bottle-blond bimbo still skulking about.

But he smiled so sweetly at me, telling me with his eyes that she was nothing, that he wanted only me, only ever me, and I nodded and let him help me to my car.

I watched him cuddling my sleeping baby to his chest, cupping the back of Adam’s head with his big, long fingers, and my heart knew.

It was over for me. And it had been from the moment I held his hand in the boxing room.

Daniel had only looked at us with a smirk as he stood in the doorway and gave us a little wave. There’d been a twinkle in his eyes, and I’d suffered the realization that my best friend was actually a master strategist and I’d fallen right into his trap. Because he’d set the whole thing up.

The party.

D-Mark.

Even where he’d sat us at the table. All of it had been intended to force us to finally confront the truth. Or to have sex. Knowing Daniel, it hadn’t been anything more than trying to get me to have that much-needed booty call.

I might have been pissed at him except for the fact that my body was blissed out, and I couldn’t honestly remember a time when I’d felt this content.

Not even the reminder of Kyle could steal that moment from me. Losing that bet and the Burberry clutch had been the best thing to happen to me.

Jackson had been careful as he buckled Adam in while I started the car and turned on the heater.

And just before I closed the door, he pulled me into him, hugging me tight, telling me without words that it was just as hard for him to let me go as it was for me to drive away.

His goodbye kiss had been slow, lingering, promising sensual delights to be explored later on, and though I felt some eyes watching us, I didn’t care.

I was lost in him and floating, adrift on a sea of desire and need.

Jackson’s heavy hand trailed down my spine, curving tight around my ass, and I moaned.

“Go home, baby. Go home now before I can’t let you go,” he said on a heated whisper and I nodded.

Throat too tight to speak after that, I hopped into my car and sped off, never even looking back at him in the rearview.

I stayed home Saturday, calling in sick. Daniel had merely chuckled, anticipating it no doubt. And though I half expected Jackson to show up at my door as he had last time, and maybe even hoped he would, he didn’t.

But I knew he understood why I wasn’t going in. I wasn’t running away this time.

I was trying to find my nerve.

And sad to say, I’d not found it Saturday.

It was Sunday morning; Adam was sitting at our small kitchen table and shoveling a spoonful of Peanut Butter Cap’n Crunch in his mouth as he watched his cartoons.

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