Clutched (Wild Riders #3) by Elizabeth Lee

Author:Elizabeth Lee [Lee, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Elizabeth Lee
Published: 2016-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18 – Chayse

“Got everything?” Hoyt asked as he loaded my small suitcase into the back of his truck.

I’d just picked up another top finish and barely had time to shower after I was done. He wanted to be back in Illinois by dinnertime, so we had to leave right away. I’d thrown on my favorite pair of jeans, a black Throttled t-shirt, and my Converse sneakers before I wrangled my damp hair into a knot on the top of my head. I knew that I was going to be alone with Hoyt and I still couldn’t muster the energy to make myself pretty. What was the point? We would never be anything more than we were. I didn’t need to be pretty to be rejected.

He didn’t seem to mind. He watched my every move as I walked out to his truck. It was the first time he’d really looked at me since we’d decided to cool it back in Texas. I knew it was for the best, but that little voice in the back of my head constantly reminded me that I was attracted to him. I couldn’t just shut that off. And I’d tried. A lot.

When he’d approached me about the wedding earlier that week, I was thrown for quite a loop. We’d fallen pretty deep in the coach/rider relationship that the last thing I expected was him to offer to drive me back to his hometown for the festivities.

“Come with me,” he’d said. “It’ll be fun.” So I left it at that. But now questions were buzzing in my brain. Were we going as work colleagues? Were we going as friends? Was it a date? I didn’t want to risk him withdrawing the offer or set myself up for disappointment so I didn’t ask. I’d just play this whole thing by ear and see how it worked out. Reading too far into things was his specialty, not mine. I was just a go-where-the-wind-takes-you kind of girl. Secretly, I was hoping that wind would blow off our clothes and land me underneath of him, but I wouldn’t tell him that. Even if I really wanted to.

“I think so,” I answered, checking my pocket for my phone. I was about to get in a vehicle with Hoyt, drive the entire day, and attend the wedding of Reid Travers. If you would have told fourteen year old me that one day I’d been attending the wedding of motocross royalty, I would have called you a big fat liar, or at least an insane person.

The whole thing had me unable to think straight. First off, getting an invitation to the wedding was enough of a shock. Especially, when Nora hand delivered it to me a few weeks ago.

“Please come,” she’d said. “I want you there.” We’d managed to sneak in a lunch one Sunday before my schedule, and Reid’s, went insane. She was so sweet and thoughtful and had a good sense of humor. Plus, she was the first female I’d met that really understood the demands of this job.

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