After Forever by Jasinda Wilder

Author:Jasinda Wilder [Wilder, Jasinda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00HFY62BK
Publisher: Jasinda Wilder
Published: 2013-12-16T00:00:00+00:00

shaken

Eden

When I woke up, Cade was gone. Not in the bed, at least, although his side was still warm. I lay on my back, staring at the ceiling with the covers rucked around my hips, wondering what my life had come to. At least this was my apartment, so I didn’t have to do the walk of shame. But…I still had to face the fact that Cade was probably going to bolt now. He’d run, curl inward, and grow distant.

No guy I ever fucked had stayed the night. Not once, not ever. They never stayed to talk. Never stuck around to even pretend like it had meant something. That’s at least part of why I’d cried for a long time last night. He’d stayed to hold me, and it had been the sweetest, most tender moment of my life. He hadn’t asked what was wrong. He hadn’t kissed my tears away. But at least he’d offered silent strength. I’d known he’d be gone in the morning, and I knew that I’d never get another moment with him that wasn’t freighted with guilt and awkward, tight-strung tension.

I couldn’t keep my thoughts from returning to how we’d been together. It had been raw, almost angry. Starvation-desperate, violent. Yet, for all that, it had been as far from empty fucking as I’d ever had with anyone. It had meant something. I felt tears slide down all over again as I realized that. It had meant something huge to me. Cade had given me some part of himself last night, and he’d taken what I’d offered him of myself.

I heard the bathroom door open, and Cade entered my room, still naked. I hurriedly wiped my eyes and sniffed away the self-pity. He saw me, just as I was wiping one last errant tear away, and his amber eyes went soft with concern.

“What’s up?” he asked.

I shrugged. “Nothing. I’m fine.”

He lifted an eyebrow, obviously not buying that line. I swallowed hard as he climbed onto my bed. His torso rippled with muscle, biceps shifting, abs cut and hard, thighs thick. I couldn’t look away from him, and didn’t try. I had a gorgeous, naked man in my bed, and I wasn’t about to waste the opportunity to devour him. With my eyes at least. My hands itched to clutch his huge hard muscles and feel the rippling power in his body, but I didn’t dare. Didn’t dare move from my spot on the bed.

I felt his eyes on me as well, and his hands curled into fists on his thighs as he sat half on the bed, one foot still on the floor. “Bullshit,” he said. “‘Fine’ never means fine.”

I blinked hard, not knowing what to say, what to tell him. “Just…everything.” Maybe that would throw him off the scent.

“I’m not a coward, Eden.” Apparently not. “I may…what we did might have been wrong, but I’m not going to vanish the next morning.”

How the hell did he know that’s what I was thinking? Damn the man’s insightfulness.

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