Wild Forces: A Friends to Lovers Romance (O-Town Book 2) by Karen Renee

Author:Karen Renee [Renee, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Karen Renee
Published: 2020-11-16T18:30:00+00:00

I AIMED THE REMOTE at the television to pause the movie as Gabe sauntered back into the room from the bathroom. The movie had definitely spiced things up, even though I didn’t think we needed that sort of thing so early in our physical relationship.

He arched a brow at me as he grinned. “Are you trying to find out if the boss walks in on them?”

I chuckled. “I think they left that as a gaping plot hole, honey.”

He grinned at me. “I will not make the obvious joke. But why aren’t you turning it off?”

I widened my eyes. “Just like you thought I grew up in a mansion, I did not grow up wasting money. It feels like such a waste that we watched like what, fifteen minutes of this? And we’re being billed—”

He put his finger over my lips, and with his other hand he grabbed the remote to turn off the television. “Don’t worry about it,” he said.

I pulled away from his finger ready to retort, but he shook his head and arranged us under the covers.

“Baby, it’s an indulgence. A dirty one, but fun. Besides, incidentals are on me anyway.”

I stared at him for a moment, before I settled beside him and drew patterns on his chest with my finger. “So, I ever get to L.A. where’s the bitch I need to cut for doing you wrong?”

Gabe laughed and shook his head. “Darlin’, it’s over. It was six years ago.”

That was a fair amount of time, and I could see his point, but I really wanted to know more. I exhaled through my nose so I wouldn’t sigh outright, but Gabe chuckled.

“You aren’t gonna let it go, are you?”

“I’m sorry. I just... never mind. You don’t want to talk about it, that’s cool.”

“I mentioned I crashed with Dad’s Army buddy. Well, I met Jessica because she’s his niece and Rex thought she could show me around.”

Suddenly, I didn’t want to know. “Okay, I get it—”

“No, Cassie. You want to know. We hit it off and within three months we were living together.”

“Wow,” I whispered, because that seemed fast.

He gave me a weak smile. “It’s expensive to live out there. But she paid her share for three months. Then she lost her job. After that, she did what she could.”

“Oh boy,” I whispered.

He smiled again, and I knew nothing good would come of this.

“We struggled, but made ends meet for another three months. Of course, we did that eating ramen and generic mac-and-cheese. But, I had saved a small stash of cash. When she left me, she took my cash, my trumpet, a guitar, my laptop, and a bunch of other audio shit.”

I gasped.

He still smiled at me, but this one held disdain. “Yeah. I thought that was as sucky as it got, but no. She told me she’d paid the electric bill, only she hadn’t. Told me a lot of shit, but she hadn’t done it, and in the end, my credit score took the hit. Dad had to bail me out, and I left Cali so I could get my shit right again.

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