Unlikely Match by Bradbury Laura

Author:Bradbury, Laura
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9781989784235
Publisher: Grape Books
Published: 2022-05-26T00:00:00+00:00

I must have fallen into an exhausted sleep, still in my work clothes, because a knock on the door woke me up. I turned my head to look out my window. It was dark. Granted, that did happen at around four o’clock in the afternoon in early November at this latitude.

Alan. The news of my abrupt departure had no doubt spread like wildfire around Hubtech after I’d stormed out. I got up, my entire body aching, and shuffled over to the door. He must have forgotten his key yet again.

I opened it and froze in shock. The object of my fury was standing there in my doorway.

All the things my illness was denying me were embodied in Tom’s unique nose and the intriguing swoop and dips of his upper lip. Same with the rich, burnished scent of his cologne and those forearms—it made me burn with resentment that he was constantly thrust in front of me when he’d already left me behind.

“Jules. I need to explain.” A swallow vibrated down the length of his throat.

Part of me wanted the satisfaction of not letting him in, but another part of me needed him physically there so I could push my outrage and humiliation out of my body and back onto him, where it belonged.

I turned and stalked wordlessly to the kitchen, bracing myself against the side of the island.

He gingerly closed the door behind him and perched on a stool on the other side. He folded his hands in front of him on the marble surface.

“How dare you show your face here after that!” My voice came out low and throbbing. My outrage at Tom and my outrage at life were tangled like a knot of silver chains.

“Let me explain—”

“You really are just as cold-hearted as I thought when I first met you,” I snapped. “You can just revert to being that tech bro so easily, treating me and my company as if we’re not even worthy of being considered contenders.”

“What?” He shook his head, bewildered. “Jules, wait—”

“All because I rejected you? Well, it hurt me too, for your information, but I haven’t lowered myself to the level of denigrating you or Silobase.”

“Oh my god, Jules. No!”

The most infuriating thing was even after all that, I still longed to continue our kiss. I wanted to claim something of this disappearing existence as mine. I deserved it, and I was being denied it, and it was not fair.

I stalked around the island until I stood right in front of him, my breath heaving with indignation. I placed my palm on his chest. Even through his white shirt he was so warm, and I was so cold I couldn’t bear to take my hand away.

“I’ve never hated anyone as much as I hate you in this moment,” I seethed. “I hate this stupid massive chest.” The steady thrum of his heartbeat pounded beneath my fingers. How I wanted to steal some of his vitality.

“What else?” he said, that flame I’d so missed igniting in his dark irises.

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