Devil's Honor by Megan Crane

Author:Megan Crane
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Loveswept
Published: 2016-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Merritt had no idea how long they sprawled there like that.

Greeley’s weight crushed her into the bed, but she liked it. She liked feeling how big he was, how strong. Maybe she more than liked it. His face was buried in her neck while his breath sawed in and out of him and she got to feel it as if it was moving through her, too. She lowered her legs to the bed but she still had her arms wrapped around him, and it didn’t matter how many times she told herself to stop clinging to him. To release that grip she still had on him before he noticed it. Before he drew the wrong conclusions about what it meant.

But she still didn’t let go.

She didn’t want to let go. Merritt told herself it wasn’t about touching him, necessarily, though there was no denying she enjoyed the simple beauty of holding such a tough, dangerous man so close. It was more that she didn’t want to face the aftermath of this long, odd, first day back home in Lagrange.

There was the whole strip club thing, an idea which had seemed like sheer magic when she’d suggested it to Lanie at some point during their deeply indulgent, carefree day together. Doing such an out of character thing wouldn’t have occurred to her at all had she not spent so many hours laughing so hard with the best friend she’d ever had—something she hadn’t done in so long that at first her laughter had felt strange and put on. But Lanie was magical the way Lanie had always been magical to Merritt, making her feel buoyed and accepted no matter what. Whether it was the killing fields of seventh grade or her ignominious return home with her proverbial tail between her legs, Lanie was there to make it all right. Merritt had decided she wanted to do what Lanie did to see if that was where the magic came from. Because tequila. And also because why the hell not? Merritt had been such a relentless Goody Two-shoes her whole life and what had it ever gotten her except into more trouble?

Then there was the fact that half the town’s male population had seen Greeley bodily remove her from Petit Joe’s, which was somehow far more embarrassing than the fact that she’d been in Petit Joe’s in the first place.

And then there was this, which she’d not only done nothing to stop—she’d pretty much started, if she was honest. He might have hauled her out of the strip club but she’d been the one to climb up on that bike and melt all over him. She’d known exactly what she was doing and what would happen.

The truth was, she’d wanted to end up right here.

She couldn’t help herself when it came to Greeley. It had been like this since that first night five years ago. And maybe it was worse now that she knew the world wasn’t exactly filled with men who could replace him.

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