Broken (Blackwater Pack) by Hannah McBride

Author:Hannah McBride [McBride, Hannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-30T04:00:00+00:00

9

Larkin

My legs were jelly the rest of the day. Rhodes smirked the whole time he helped me get my pants back on, his fingers ‘accidentally’ brushing places that had my nerve endings waking up all over again.

I had reached for him, wanting to return the favor, but he shot me down with a quick kiss, telling me there was no rush.

Which was good since I was pretty sure my knees wouldn’t have supported my weight for what I intended to do.

We hung out in the garage again. Rhodes worked on his motorcycle while I handed him random tools. The only difference now was when he stood up to walk around me, I usually got a kiss out of it.

That, and I finally had my best friend back.

It felt like old times, chatting and joking, an oldies rock station playing from the radio on the workbench.

I watched the muscles in his arm strain as he tightened a bolt. I could watch him do this all freaking day.

“Were you serious about being a janitor?” I asked, finally asking the question that had been bugging me since our chat in the snow days earlier. “I mean, I know you don’t want to go to college, but is that what you’re going to do the rest of your life?” I tried my best to hide the disappointment in my tone.

Career day had always been fun at school. I loved imagining what I could be in the future, but Rhodes had always taken it as a joke, laughing off the future whenever it was brought up.

One year he said he wanted to raise llamas, the next year he wanted to be a full time lifeguard. Every year it got sillier and more ridiculous, always earning a laugh from kids in our class and even the teachers. But Rhodes never committed to anything.

He pressed his mouth together, grunting as he kept tightening. “Mr. Forbes asked me to come work at the garage. I might apprentice there this summer. He’s getting older, so maybe I would run that one day? I don’t know. It would be kind of cool to have my own garage.”

“That would be awesome,” I agreed quickly. I could see him doing that. He had some stupidly natural gift with engines and motors; he understood them. I had seen how excited he got when working on a new project, spending hours online to read up about styles and trim and a whole lot of other stuff I was completely oblivious to. “But you know you could always take classes, too. Get a business degree to go with it?”

He gave me a look. “I know. If I want to, I can go to the community college in Nelson.”

I kept smiling. Kept nodding. “Right.”

He set the wrench down, giving me his full attention. “Lark, I told you—college and I aren’t the best fit.”

“Unless you’re screwing copious amounts of sorority girls?” I snarked, remembering what he said the day before.

“I didn’t know you were joining a sorority,” he replied instantly, flashing me a warm grin.

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