Wanted: Blurred Lines (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Nazarea Andrews

Author:Nazarea Andrews [Andrews, Nazarea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B077YG6LXH
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-12-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

WHEN I WAKE UP, I can’t remember where I am. The room looks strange but familiar, and there’s the comfortable warmth of Spence pressed against my back, the reassuring sound of his weezy snores in my ear, and I don’t put it together immediately.

Then I hear Ruby’s voice in the hallway, loud and ringing, and I’m thrown back to when I was in high school and my sister was the obnoxious alarm clock that woke me every day. In that small moment between waking and hearing her, I realize where I am.

It hasn’t been bad, being home. Ruby was pissy about Violet and the wedding, and her ranting kept Mama distracted through a late lunch. I dragged Spence out to show him the ranch before either could corner one of us to demand all the details of our new relationship.

And it’s gone just as well, being on the ranch. Showing it to my best friend is like seeing it for the first time, experiencing it anew with him. There’s something intoxicating about the way his eyes light up and the grin he gives me, delighted as he teased me about being a cowboy.

The only hitch yesterday was after dinner, while Spence took a call from Cara and I strummed idly on the guitar I found in my bedroom. Mama said, quietly, “You’re good together, Ethan. Better than I thought, and I always suspected you’d be perfect together.”

I swallowed down the guilt, ignored how it made me want to blurt out the truth, and just smiled at her until she kissed me goodnight, lips twisted in a smile as they pressed against my forehead.

Even sharing my room—my bed—with Spence isn’t bad. We’ve lived with each other for enough time that sleeping in close quarters has long since lost it’s magic. So falling into bed next to him, tired and anxious, was comfortable. I barely heard his whispered, “G’night, E,” before I was asleep.

It’s different, waking up next to him here, though.

It’s cozy, the room and the man, and I twist my head, looking at him. He’s sleeping still, his lashes long and soft against the swell of his cheek, his mouth open and lips dry. There’s a pillow crease on his cheek and I thumb it gently, before I sigh and push myself up.

“Ethan,” Spence slurs, still more asleep than not. He moves in bed, toward the empty space where my body heat lingers, and I try very hard not to think about what that means.

“Go back to sleep,” I whisper. He hums contentedly, burrowing into the pillow as I stand and slip out of the bedroom. I duck into the bathroom I used to fight with Ruby over, and brush my teeth while willing my erection down, because I’m not going to breakfast with my sisters with a goddamn boner.

I have to remind myself that no matter how tempting, going back to bed and curling up around Spencer isn’t even an option.

Ruby is alone in the kitchen, beating something in a big silver bowl into submission.

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