Wired Fear by Toby Neal

Author:Toby Neal [Neal, Toby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780999702260
Publisher: Toby Neal
Published: 2018-08-29T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

After a sleepless night in his new studio apartment, Jake finished a hard run in the park with Tank to kick off the day. He dropped off the dog back at the condo and jogged two blocks to a gym he’d joined recently.

Now he bench pressed a barbell loaded with as much weight as he could take, heaving it up with animalistic grunts that expressed his feelings better than any words.

He didn’t know how he was going to get past this.

Jake’s logical brain argued that he and Sophie hadn’t been officially together when she slept with Alika. Sophie had been honest, telling Jake that she still had feelings for the guy. He even knew the exact night it had happened: they’d been shot at, and she’d had to hide in Alika’s hotel room. The whole thing was a natural setup. He shouldn’t feel this way about it.

But that didn’t change the sensation he’d had, a rending as if his heart had been ripped out when she told him that he might not be the baby’s father.

The feelings of betrayal felt primitive and absolute, life-threatening, even. Just the thought of Sophie with Alika, of his rival’s child in her womb, made him want to tear the world apart and set it on fire.

Jake pushed harder and faster on the bar.

Suddenly he reached the end of his reserves. The barbell trembled above him like a black guillotine. Spots danced in the corners of his vision. He simply couldn’t get it back into its cradle. Maybe if he let go, it’d drop on him and end the misery permanently.

“Let me help.” A familiar feminine voice. Felicia appeared in his line of sight. The grad student grabbed the weight beside his hands. Together, they were able to heave the massive thing back into its cradle.

Jake stared up at the receptionist in astonishment, trying to get his breath back as Felicia walked around to face him. She looked cute as sin, her blonde hair in pigtails, and she was wearing sexy little butt shorts and a tiny tank top that made the most of her twenty something assets. She wasn’t moving off quickly, either; instead she stared down at him like she’d like to take a bite.

“Excuse me,” Jake said loudly.

Felicia laughed. “Sorry. I was seeing if you were still alive, old man. Wanted to make sure you were breathing. Good thing you said something, or I’d have had to take a pulse.”

They bantered in the office like that. She called him “old man” and he called her “babe,” and other borderline inappropriate things. The flirtatious joking had been fun, a return to old patterns that he’d been slapped down for trying with Sophie. That Felicia seemed to enjoy it too had been a balm to his ego as he dealt with so many uncomfortable moments in his new relationship.

Which might be ending.

If Sophie was pregnant with Alika’s baby, he honestly didn’t know what he’d do. But if it was his? A whole different picture.

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