Crashing into Love: A Steamy Standalone Instalove Romance by Flora Ferrari

Author:Flora Ferrari [Ferrari, Flora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-09-16T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Callie

“Callie.” His voice is a gruff welcome force, penetrating the darkness, penetrating the heaviness hovering around me. “I’m going into work.”

“What time is it?” I reach sleepily out for him, missing the warm solid presence that’s been pressed up against me all night, his solid muscles reassuring me any time I jolted awake from a nightmare about dad’s car crash.

“It’s early. Go back to sleep.”

I giggle. “So why did you wake me, huh?”

Even with my eyes closed, I’m sure I can feel him smiling. It’s a force that dances across the short distance between us, coursing through me, infusing me with light.

“Because you wouldn’t let me go,” he says, his breath whispering warmly over my cheek. “You were holding onto me like you never wanted to let me go.”

“I don’t.”

“I feel the same,” he snarls. “If I had my way, I’d stay with you all day. It kills me, being apart from you. It makes me want to never go into the hospital again. But if I don’t, I’ll be letting people down. I haven’t missed a shift in over a decade and I don’t intend to start now. But know this, Callie. It kills me being away from you, okay?”

Reaching up, I touch his face, feeling the firmness of his tightly clenched jaw. I’m in that hazy in-between state where sleep keeps trying to drag me back down, and opening my eyes feels like an impossible challenge.

“Okay, Conrad. I’ll see you later.”

“For our date,” he says firmly, and then lays a soft kiss on my cheek, sensation flitting warmly all across me. “And what comes after.”

I nod, smile, but the words cast a deep shadow over the warmth of the exchange.

And what comes after, they bounce around my head as Conrad leaves the room, shutting the door behind him, probably to get showered and changed.

What comes after is sex. That’s what he wants.

To claim me like he said.

But what if I’m not ready to give him what he wants?

As sleep drags me back down to its hazy depths, a nasty unfair thought spikes inside my mind.

Alexis would be ready.

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