Bears Of Kodiak 02 August by Selene Charles

Author:Selene Charles
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

August

The door opened, and he knew without looking up that it was her. Her shift had ended four hours ago. He’d seen her leave with Blue. But looking up now, he saw that Jack was all alone, and her eyes were only on him.

His skin prickled from the intensity of her look.

All around, there was chatter and laughter. Honky-tonk music played, and glasses clinked, but he saw and heard nothing except for the glide of her booted feet and the sexy smile on her lips.

When she finally reached the bar, he realized her hair was wet.

“Took a bath?” he asked, forcing himself to finish setting up the keg.

Leaning over the bar, her mouth brushed his ear. “Nope. Took a swim in the lagoon.”

Chuckling, because he could believe the wild, crazy woman would do just that in the middle of winter, he shook his head. “You don’t say. Trying to drown yourself?”

“Ha.” She snorted. “Sirens can’t drown, you furry baboon.” There was something different about her tonight, something easy and stress-free, almost as though she was a different person completely.

His heart beat hard in his chest. It was obvious to him that something momentous had happened during her swim, either that or she and Blue were really falling in love, and that’s what had given her the glow.

He scowled at that thought. He would have sworn there was nothing that serious between them before. He’d seen the way she looked at Blue... like friends, but nothing more.

But the pretty siren in front of him at that moment wasn’t at all broody or contemplative, or even sad like she typically was when she was around him. She had a definite bounce to her step that he found sexy and more than just a little appealing.

Finished with what he’d been doing, he gave her his full attention, drinking her in like a man parched. Her blue eyes sparkled like the sun-dappled waters she called home.

Narrowing his eyes, he said, “You seem different tonight.”

“Do I?” She grinned then nodded. “Yes. I guess I would.”

“Why?” He wasn’t sure whether to trust this new, perky Aphrodite incarnate.

“Because I’ve come to a conclusion.”

He knew she was baiting him, but that didn’t stop him from asking anyway. “And that is?”

“That we can be friends. That we should be friends.” She held up her hands when he opened his mouth to again remind her why that was such a bad idea.

Although his attempts to tell her that would have been half-hearted at best. Staying away from her the past months had been sheer torture, especially once Blue had become a permanent fixture in her life.

“I’m not saying sex or even a relationship. I’m saying we be friends. You tell me about you, and I’ll tell you about me.”

He was treading in dangerous waters. The more he knew about her, the more he would want her. But what if he didn’t? What if maybe learning about each other was the way to kill the dangerous attraction between them once and for all? He decided to give in because he was tired of always pushing her away.

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