Waking up in Vegas by Natasha Preston

Author:Natasha Preston [Preston, Natasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-05T18:30:00+00:00

Twenty-Eight

Wren

Sexually frustrated.

That’s what’s going on with me tonight. And let’s face it, every damn night.

My stomach periodically clenches whenever he’s around.

Brody is an idiot for telling me that he wants us to get down like the bunnies again. Not that I didn’t know, but it’s easier to ignore it when he’s not actually saying the words. It’s like I can convince myself that Vegas was a one-off and tequila was to blame, but when he tells me that’s not quite true, he takes away my ability to pretend.

I drink the last of my second beer. Brody switched to Coke since he’s driving us home.

He watches me as I put the bottle down on the table.

My skin prickles with awareness. There’s heat in his eyes that would melt the ice caps, and it’s driving me a little bit insane.

“We should get going,” I say.

“We should.”

I can tell he’s thinking Back to mine? but neither of us voice it.

Grabbing my bag, I stand and wait for Brody to walk around the table. I try to keep a safe distance as we leave the bar and head towards the car park outside the lawyer’s office.

We have to be in the same car for the next twenty minutes as he drives us out of the city. I should have told him I would meet him here and driven myself.

“You cold?” he asks.

The temperature has dropped drastically, but it’s still not cold. In fact, I’m burning.

“I’m fine,” I reply.

Are we actually resorting to talking about the weather?

I have no drink with me, nothing to do to break the spell that Brody’s midnight-blue eyes have put on me.

He clears his throat. “Good.”

Why are we doing this now? We never would have even looked at each other twice if we hadn’t gotten married.

“All right,” he says, shaking his head as if he’s trying to get the X-rated thoughts out of his mind.

I’ve never been this physically attracted to a person before, and it came out of nowhere. Brody’s always been good-looking—that’s not changed—but my reaction to him has.

It’s like looking at something in daylight, and you see it clearly.

I see him, and I know there’s more than the moody Brody who always seemed kind of angry at me.

Brody unlocks his car, powerwalking towards it like it’s going to disappear any second. I think he’s trying to put some distance between us.

We need that.

I get into his car and put my seat belt on. Brody peels out of the carpark and narrows his eyes at the road like it’s personally wronged him.

As I watch out of the corner of my eye, my stomach clenches again. I long for hands that are wrapped around the steering wheel to peel me out of my clothes and take me to bed.

“Can you drop me at Mila’s, please?” I ask as the tension builds to an unbearable level.

He side-eyes me. “Sure.”

She’ll know what to do. Hopefully. I also drop a text to Indie, telling her to meet at Mila’s because I have something big to tell them.

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