Worth Fighting For: A Warrior Fight ClubBig Sky Novella (Kristen Proby Crossover Collection Book 4) by Laura Kaye

Author:Laura Kaye [Kaye, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance, Warrior Fight Club, Laura Kaye, crossover, Big Sky, Kristen Proby
Publisher: Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated
Published: 2019-03-11T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Approaching the Ocean City inlet meant it would be only fifteen minutes until they’d be docked. And Jesse hadn’t seen Tara once since he’d left her on the deck of the GD.

“Don’t.”

That one word wouldn’t stop echoing in his head. Because it was just…off. Wrong. Nothing like the Tara he’d come to know. Ever since that exchange, intuition had unleashed prickles up and down his spine. His gut told him she wasn’t okay.

Not physically harmed, no. But not all injuries were visible. He knew that as well as anyone.

The problem was, he couldn’t think of a good explanation for going to check on her, not when they’d played it that they’d been strangers that first day. He didn’t think she’d appreciate him acting in any way that might reveal anything about their real relationship…

Whatever the hell it actually was, Jesse didn’t know. He just knew that watching her jump into the roiling ocean to dive to an accident site in sixty-foot waters had been damn hard to do. Not because he didn’t think she could handle it. Not because she wasn’t competent. Not because she wasn’t capable of rescue and recovery. But because she meant more to him than just a colleague.

How much more, he didn’t know.

Bullshit, a little voice in his head said.

Fine. More than a friend, even.

It was almost more than he could believe—that he’d developed such a strong connection when he’d always half wondered if there was something wrong with himself on that score. He hadn’t been close with his dad, and as he’d disappointed his father more and more during high school, it’d impacted his relationship with his mother and his sister, Willa. As a result, he barely knew his nine-year-old nephew, Alex.

As an adult, he’d had plenty of friendships but only a handful of relationships that’d been serious or long enough to elevate to the status of girlfriend.

Yet, here he was, fighting the magnetic pull that apparently every cell in his body felt to go check on Tara. Take her in his arms and make them both feel better. And then figure out how to convince her that they had to give more a shot.

But he didn’t do any of that.

Just as they motored into the marina, Tara appeared on deck. Showered. Dressed. Hair in a loose braid. She chatted with George, checked on Jud, and generally acted normal. But Jesse’s gut wasn’t buying it. Her normally animated face appeared almost a mask of expected expressions. Her tone wasn’t quite right. Her eyes were flat, almost distant. How he could read her so well so fast he wasn’t sure, but Jesse didn’t think he was wrong.

They got the Going Deep moored and then Boone gathered them on the deck, making it easier to include Jud, who could only navigate the ladder to the bridge with some difficulty. The sea had taken a bite out of the guy today, but he was still sitting there laughing and joking around about how his foot had turned into an eggplant emoji, har har.

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