Trust in Me by Lea Coll

Author:Lea Coll [Coll, Lea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: All I Want Series, Book 4
Publisher: Lea Coll
Published: 2019-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

I’D INVITED SAWYER OVER FOR dinner on Thursday night after his rowing practice. I was ready to hand my heart to him because of one amazing birthday. We’d been dating—dinner, sailing, working together, attending rowing races—and any girl would have gotten caught up in the moment. Who could resist a sexy professor who rode a motorcycle and was nice, thoughtful, and sweet? He was too good to be true, which was why he was my fake boyfriend and not my real boyfriend.

But I was ready to ruin everything by revealing myself to him. I looked shakily around my tiny cottage, trying to see it how he would. My grandmother’s faded yellow couches sat in the living room, and a tiny television I never watched sat on my old childhood dresser. Built-in shelves lined one whole wall with several pictures of me laughing with my grandmother.

I’d only ever hosted one girls’ night here since I had moved in, but I had pride in this home, the one I bought with only my grandmother’s help, and filled with her furniture and a few of my touches over the years. I waited in the sunroom looking out over the backyard, my favorite room in the house.

The doorbell rang and I worried it was too soon to tell Sawyer the truth—that all this fake dating seemed real and I wanted more. I checked my appearance in the hall mirror before opening the door.

Sawyer stood in khaki pants and a white button-down shirt, sleeves rolled to his elbows, and my eyes caught on his exposed forearms and the hair curling there. They were strong, masculine, and I immediately thought of him bracing himself as he hovered over me. I swallowed, trying to drag my eyes away from his arms to his face.

“Can I come in?” Sawyer asked.

“Oh yeah, sure,” I said, backing up to give him room to enter. But instead of passing me he paused in front of me, leaning down for a soft kiss.

Straightening, he said, “Thank you for inviting me to your home.”

He’d said those words like he knew how important it was for me to invite anyone to my home. Sure, he’d been here to pick me up before, but this was different. Ashley could have mentioned it but I chose to believe that he understood me like no one else. I had to believe that in order to reveal myself to him tonight. I drew in a shaky breath. “You’re welcome.”

I still stood with my hand on the door watching him walk through my living room. He zeroed in on the framed pictures on the bookshelf. “This is your grandmother?”

“Yeah.” I finally closed the front door with a soft click.

“You look so happy here. So free.” Still holding the frame in his hand, he looked at me.

“Yeah, she was fun to be around.”

“Like you.”

“Yeah, I guess she was a lot like me.” I felt a pang she wasn’t here for me to go to for advice anymore. To tell me my parents were idiots and I needed to move away from them.

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