Break Your Heart by Rhonda Helms

Author:Rhonda Helms [Helms, Rhonda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781617731235
Google: rR1jBgAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1617731226
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2015-07-27T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

The next couple of weeks went by in a mad rush. When I wasn’t in class or studying, I was meeting Nick everywhere I could—off campus, of course. We had impromptu coffee dates, saw an indie band concert, even had dinner at his house a few times. I never stayed the night or hinted like I wanted to, not wishing to push things, but my evenings out with him got longer and longer.

It was so hard to leave him each night when all I wanted to do was curl up in the warmth of his arms.

True to his word, Nick kept things above board when we were on campus. He didn’t treat me any differently in class, and I found myself growing accustomed to this . . . thing going on between us. Though we did leave each other small coded notes on our papers back and forth. They were the highlight of my day.

Late last week, Nick and I were talking outside the math building when I saw my dad walking by with a contractor, both of them in bright yellow hard hats, Styrofoam cups clenched in hands. My heart stopped beating in my chest, and I stuttered and struggled to keep my cool. He and I weren’t technically doing anything wrong right then; there was nothing unusual about students and professors having conversations on campus. But I was certain Dad would read the truth on my face. He knew me better than almost anyone and would be able to see the emotions in my eyes clear as day.

Thankfully, he’d kept walking past, not seeing me. Crisis averted, barely. But the uneasiness had lingered with me for hours afterward. Since then, I was careful about my communication with Nick outside the math building.

I’d briefly mentioned to Nick that my parents were working on a project here, but I wasn’t quite ready for them to meet. Not yet, not when we were still so new . . . and had to keep things on the down low.

This was quite possibly the biggest secret I’d ever kept. And while I savored my stolen moments with Nick, I wanted more. I grew impatient for the semester to end so I didn’t have to sneak around any longer. Every day I was with him, it was more and more difficult to not vocalize that. But I’d agreed to these terms and I couldn’t complain about it now.

I’d known from the start what I was getting into.

After finishing psychology of stress one afternoon, I got to the apartment complex and whipped my door open. “Honey, I’m home!” I’d seen Casey’s car in the parking lot, so I figured she was here.

“Hey! How was your day?” Casey waved at me from the table. Seated beside her was a short, pretty brunette; they had textbooks spilled all over the table’s surface. The girl offered me a polite smile and head nod.

“It was fabulous,” I declared as I tossed my backpack on the couch. I went into the kitchen and grabbed a Diet Coke from the fridge.

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