Well Played by Jen DeLuca

Author:Jen DeLuca [DeLuca, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2020-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

I almost talked myself out of it.

I went home after Faire and took a long, hot shower. I dried my hair and snuggled with Benedick for a few minutes. I put on a cute dress. I took it off and pulled on yoga pants and a T-shirt. I put on makeup. I took it off. I was stalling.

My phone remained silent, something I wasn’t used to these days. I’d grown used to those nightly check-ins from Dex . . . no, from Daniel. When I’d gotten home from the bar last night I’d changed Dex’s name in my phone to Daniel’s, but I was still working on reordering my thinking when it came to this whole mess. But he didn’t send any texts. He didn’t ask if I was coming or not. He was giving me space, as he’d said this afternoon.

But I wasn’t sure if I wanted that space. I wasn’t sure what I wanted next with him. As I checked my phone for the fourth time since I’d gotten home, I realized that I missed him. I wanted to hear from him. And he was waiting, more patiently than I could have ever expected, for me to take what we’d had all these months off-line and into real life.

I kissed Benedick on the top of his head, plopped him on the couch, and grabbed my keys. I’d stalled long enough.

It didn’t take long to drive to the hotel, and before I could think too hard about it I was knocking on the door of his room. The relieved, almost overjoyed look on Daniel’s face when he opened the door told me that I’d made the right decision. He wasn’t looking for a hookup. He was looking for me.

“You came!” He took my hand and led me inside. The genuine surprise in his voice almost made me sad; obviously he hadn’t thought me showing up was a sure thing. Dex had never thought I wouldn’t show up. Or maybe he just hadn’t cared.

“Of course I did.” He didn’t need to know how long I’d dithered at my place. I could just let him think that it always took me this long to shower and throw on glorified pajamas and minimal makeup.

He bent to kiss my cheek, his lips skimming over my skin, and I turned my head, catching his mouth with mine and turning it into a real kiss. He accepted it with a sigh, and his hand tightened around mine for a split second before letting go, dropping to rest at my waist. I let him pull me into him, enjoying the way we seemed to fit well together despite our height difference. My heart swelled, and suddenly I couldn’t recall why I’d been so unsure about all this. Sure, we needed to get used to each other, but Daniel and I had more in common than Dex and I ever had. Even if Daniel was after a quick hookup as Dex had been, a month with this guy would be so much better than any relationship I’d had lately.

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