Uncommon Passion by Anne Calhoun

Author:Anne Calhoun [Calhoun, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Romance, General, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781101595510
Google: -j2X_JZDp54C
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-09-03T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Ben rolled his shoulders to work out the tension brought on by sitting through a painful reminder of what could have been. It wasn’t difficult to imagine him and Sam up on that stage, if things had worked out differently. At the same time he wracked his brains to come up with something that would make Rachel Hill feel something.

It wouldn’t take much, because Rachel still looked like she’d taken a tackle on her blind side every time she had an orgasm. Every time he had an orgasm, for that matter. She took none of this for granted, and when you didn’t need new and different to get a kick out of sex, what should he do?

What did she want?

No fucking clue. Or was he just clueless about how to give her what she wanted?

When he saw her on the bunkhouse porch, dressed in white and looking like something out of a country music video, he’d forgotten the basics of driving, like braking before he ran into a building, and had to slam on the brakes to stop the truck in time. As he got out of the truck, anticipation had overwhelmed him and he’d flashed back to the nights when he used to pick up a girl, eager for the night to get started. When he’d tucked the rose she held the whole way into town into her soft, loose French braid, a hint of perfume and warm skin drifted from her nape to his nostrils. The comment about the cooking asphalt was a lie, intended to cover the odd hitch of his heart.

When was the last time he was eager to go out with a woman? Hell, nowadays he wasn’t even eager to get laid. It would happen, and if it didn’t, his phone held a long list of numbers to text in search of a warm, willing body. He knew when he’d stopped feeling. He knew why. For over a decade he’d set up his life on autopilot, substituting adrenaline for emotion.

The woman beside him wanted both. For good reason. People went without sex all the time, but to punish this beautiful, alive, curious woman for any emotional expression outside joy and contentment was like locking up the falcon she resembled.

That’s what she reminded him of—a bird of prey, tawny eyes, a dozen shades of gold and brown like feathers in her hair, fierce and beautiful and strong. Capable of locking talons around a vulnerable creature and carrying it away.

She’d chosen him for the way he made her feel physically, nothing else. From the very beginning she’d chosen him because he wouldn’t care. She knew who he was. What he was.

Great. She likes you, and you brought her flowers and went on a date with her, asshole. You’re confusing things, not her. She’s going to think that’s a relationship.

No, she wouldn’t. She’d get emotional support elsewhere. Maybe from Rob Strong.

Another emotion surged in Ben’s gut, as unfamiliar as the anticipation.

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