Chasing Noelle by Sonja N. Griffing

Author:Sonja N. Griffing [Griffing, Sonja N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ampers& Publishing
Published: 2023-12-10T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty

Noelle

Noelle dozed off and on, proud of herself for ignoring Griffin as long as she had. He was like gravity. Every minute since he’d found her, the pull she felt for him tugged harder. His presence behind her was like a physical thing. Like safety and home. Two concepts he’d made her believe in, despite her history, only to have them thrown back in her face with a giant ‘no, thank you.’ She couldn’t get sucked into that again. Not while she was barely afloat.

The baby pushed against her bladder, reminding her that it was time for a bathroom break. Her lower back wouldn’t mind a stretch either. She tapped Faith’s hand, and her friend started.

“Can we stop soon?” she asked, feeling a twinge of guilt. Because Faith couldn’t trust anyone, she’d being doing twenty-four-hour duty and it showed in the agent’s eyes.

“Sorry.” Faith glanced at the GPS screen. “My mind was a million miles away. There’s a small town at the next exit.” She took her hand off the wheel long enough to squeeze Noelle’s fingertips. “I’m sorry I didn’t think to stop sooner.”

“I know you have a lot on your mind.”

“I’m not the only one.” Faith tipped her head toward the back and Noelle made herself look at Griffin. He had his face buried in a notebook as his pen made tiny, neat lines of text on the page.

This was a Griffin mode she remembered. His ability to hyperfocus. Shallow lines of concentration furrowed his brow and his left leg bounced on the floorboard as if to dispel excess excitement. Every few seconds, he stopped to scratch the back of his head. A genius brain hiding behind a face she’d always considered the picture of male beauty. Sharp jawline, squared chin covered in a short scruffy beard, and tight smooth skin marred only by fine lines on the corners of his eyes. Eyes that weren’t squinting?

She twisted in her seat. “You aren’t wearing glasses.”

“I got Lasik,” Griffin said, closing his pen into the notebook. “My glasses fell apart when I dislocated my nose.”

“Oh.” Sure enough, his nose curved slightly off-center as if it had been knocked out of place and never reset. Perhaps she’d been avoiding looking at him more than she’d thought. Avoiding acknowledging him at all. Why? To punish him? Or because she didn’t trust herself to stay indifferent if she did? She didn’t like what either of those questions implied.

The glint in his eye almost dared her to ask how he’d been injured, but she wasn’t ready to dive deeper. She had plenty of other things to think about. “In my defense, you didn’t wear glasses much when we were alone together.”

He nodded slowly as a heated intensity gathered in his eyes. “I didn’t need to see when we were in bed. I had every inch of you memorized.”

Noelle blinked at the same moment heat pooled between her legs. Had Griffin really said that? Her gaze shot to Faith, who bit her lip and looked ready to laugh.

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