Wild Hearts by Vivian Wood

Author:Vivian Wood [Wood, Vivian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Press
Published: 2017-11-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Alex

He’d breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Faith would be gone for the afternoon. She’d be with Mama, which did give him pause, but then again Mama was full of traditional southern manners. He doubted Mama’d give in to gossip even if Faith pushed. Besides, it wasn’t like Mama knew him anymore anyway.

Alex had thought that a move to the cabin would be far enough to avoid Faith. He’d been wrong. Ever since that time between night and morning when she’d shown up unexpectedly, it was like he couldn’t avoid her.

She was there making coffee in the morning, even when he thought he’d planned it well enough that she’d still be asleep. Every dinner was awkward as hell. He thought she’d be staring at him, but when he’d focus his eyes on her, she would be caught up in a conversation with Mama or Caleb.

Faith drove him crazy. Plain and simple.

It had been a week since their incident, and he’d thought that giving in once would satisfy his craving for her. But it just made him want her more. Every time he saw her, whether it was a glimpse of her legs as she went up the stairs or the way she pushed her hair out of her face in the morning light, he was reminded of that time together.

In a second, he could go from putting honey in his tea to remembering how she sucked her lip as he tasted her. Those long fingers that helped Gwen prepare lunch he imagined once again on his cock.

The past week had been even worse. Her face always held a perfectly blank expression. It made him mad, nearly enraged him. I might not know her perfectly, but I know her well enough to realize she always has an expression. Puzzled, engaged, laughing, about to explain or debate—she always did something with her face. Until now.

“Y’all all right?” Mama had asked the two of them when she found them in silence one morning. Alex stood watch over the Keurig while Faith scraped at her toast.

“Yes, ma’am,” Alex had said automatically.

“Just fine, Mama,” Faith had said.

He didn’t look at her face, but he could hear the warmth in it. Why doesn’t she talk to me like that anymore?

Alex pulled on some clean clothes for another dinner at the inn where Faith would pretend he didn’t exist. “Shit,” he said. There was a tear in his shirt and a button was missing. How the hell did that happen? There was no way Mama would let “such riffraff” at her formal dining table.

By the time he’d changed and raced across the lawn to the inn, everybody was seated and waiting for him. Gwen arched one of those perfectly shaped brows at him while she put down the last pot but didn’t say anything.

“Thought you’d plumb forgot,” Mama said. She whipped the cloth napkin open and settled it on her lap—a cue for everyone else to follow suit.

The only seat was between Faith and Mama.

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