Undone, Volume 3 by Callie Harper

Author:Callie Harper [Harper, Callie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-03-28T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

Ash

Ana. I’d seen a lot of beautiful women in my life. Hell, I’d been surrounded by them. Models, actresses, debutantes. But Ana in that hot tub underneath the stars? She blew them all away.

I almost didn’t know what to say to her. Everything that came to mind sounded so clichéd, especially coming out of my mouth. I’d told her I thought she was amazing, gorgeous, all that. But this was a woman who worked with books for a living. She’d quoted Shakespeare to me just yesterday. Anyone could see that she was much smarter than me. If I had to rely on my powers of verbal persuasion with Ana, I didn’t have a shot.

So, I did what I knew how to do. I gathered her in my arms. Inside, we rinsed off and I toweled her dry. I loved how relaxed she grew with me, so pink and dreamy. The smile on her face looked so light and sweet, almost the smile of someone asleep and in the middle of the most enchanting dream. I wanted to make every day like that for her. She deserved it.

But first she needed some sleep. I loved how much I tired her out. The last few days we hadn’t done much more than have sex, make music, and sleep. Plus occasionally eat. And I’d managed to keep her out of clothes the entire time. Perfection.

Together, we settled into bed, her head on my chest, my arm around her waist. Her breathing drew deep almost instantly and I thought she’d fallen asleep. But then she murmured,

“They don’t know you like I do.”

“What’s that?” I leaned down to catch her quiet voice.

“All those people around you. They all know your image. But they don’t know you.”

I nodded. That was absolutely true. And I wasn’t the first celebrity to feel that way. When you as an individual became a brand with large dollar signs attached to your image, you got catapulted into this strange other world. I know, play me a tiny violin of sympathy. But I wasn’t trying to complain about it. It was just a fact. In my bubble, the more people knew your name, the less people knew the real you. It got so I barely felt like I knew myself.

“What about you? Do you feel like you know me?” The second I asked her, I almost wished that I hadn’t. I felt like so much hung on her answer and I held my breath wondering what she’d say. For some reason, I felt like it would just about kill me if she said no.

“I know you.” She rested her palm over my heart, beating steadily for her. “And you’re amazing.”

I was grateful she fell asleep soon after. I knew I was literally naked, but her answer stripped me bare on a whole new level. I had nothing left to hide. And if she’d looked up in my eyes at that moment, I knew what would have tumbled out of my mouth.

I would have told her that I loved her.

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