True Beginnings (The Lost and Found Series Book 3) by Amanda Mackey

Author:Amanda Mackey [Mackey, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing LLC
Published: 2018-09-17T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Viper

She damn well had me at hello. Not that I’d let on how I felt anytime soon. Her continued strength, a quality in a woman I admired, blew me away. Just now, in her home, I’d expected her to crumble. She hadn’t been comfortable, that had been obvious, but it hadn’t got the better of her. Perhaps my presence had helped, but still, I knew how shaken up she’d been.

Red would be okay while I was away. She’d carry on with life and survive. I didn’t know what we were doing after sleeping together, but the thought of not seeing her for the next few weeks, maybe months, left a certain amount of unease behind my ribs.

Could we be more than a casual hook up? Glancing over at her sitting in my passenger seat, I couldn’t deny what a firecracker she was in the bedroom. Hell, it had been using all my restraint not to accost her today. Sleeping next to her had kept my nightmares at bay. Another first. She got under my skin more than just physically, though. She had spunk and fire. I liked that. I liked that a lot.

She must have sensed me watching her because she turned and gifted me with her stunning eyes. They crinkled slightly, causing a zing from my heart to my groin. Turning back to the front, I had to swerve sharply to avoid driving onto the gravel on the side of the road.

“Jesus.” It came out as a quiet curse from her. “Can you watch the road, instead of me?”

Caught in the act. I didn’t know how to respond to that so I used the coping mechanism I knew well. Sarcasm.

“Don’t flatter yourself, sweetheart. Not everything’s about you.”

I regretted it the minute it came out. Fact of the matter—I had been staring at her. I’d been doing it more and more. Not to figure her out, but to figure out the jigsaw puzzle of my emotions while in her company.

“Fuck you.” Her voice held some of the fire I’d witnessed when we’d first met and damn if it didn’t have me grinning like an idiot.

“Oh, you think it’s funny, do you? Being an ass. Here I thought you were actually beginning to treat me like a human. I guess now that you got your end in, it’s back to the way things were. Nice.”

Peeking sideways, the hurt on her face got my attention before she quickly shuttered it away, replacing it with the brave mask I was beginning to recognize. I felt like a dick. She’d been more than a quick roll between the sheets, as much as I hated to admit it. But my stubbornness thwarted me telling her how I felt. I’d be gone tomorrow. No sense in making promises I wouldn’t be able to keep. Friends I could do. Anything more wasn’t guaranteed.

I kept my mouth shut the rest of the way home for fear of saying something I’d regret. Drama would serve no purpose to me in the coming weeks.

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