Diamonds and Dust by Jessie Evans

Author:Jessie Evans [Evans, Jessie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: second chance romance, sports romance, romance series, cowboy, western
Publisher: Self Taught Ninja
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Pike

Seven years ago, all it had taken was a phone call from Tulsi telling Pike she was pregnant with another man’s child to end things between them. He’d been so hurt and jealous he hadn’t been able to think past the rage inspired by the realization that Tulsi—his Tulsi—had been with someone else.

After that miserable phone call, he’d crawled into a bottle for five days and only come up for air when his assistant coach caught him puking in the locker room and told him he’d be cut from the team if he showed up drunk to practice again. Since then, Pike had run from his pain with women instead of booze.

In the year after he and Tulsi split, he’d slept with more women than he had in his entire life to that point. He was determined to fuck her out of his system and for a while it had worked. He’d been too angry to let himself remember how good it had been between them. He’d forgotten that making love to Tulsi was as natural as breathing or how beautiful and right the world seemed when she was in his arms.

But now, he remembered. It wasn’t nostalgia that made his heart insist that Tulsi was the best he’d ever had. She was even better than he’d remembered—innocence and abandon, heart and heat all wrapped up in the sexiest little body in the world. Having her taste on his lips, seeing her hands tremble as she reached for him, hearing her sweet, sexy voice whispering in his ear had been a thousand times more earth-shattering than even his most vibrant memories. She’d devastated him, broken through every line of defense, and exposed all the lies he’d told himself to the light.

He’d never even started getting over Tulsi Hearst. She still owned him—body and soul. She was everything he wanted and needed and this time he wasn’t giving up on her without a fight. He was going to get through to her and earn a second chance, no matter what it took.

He didn’t blame her for being skittish. He’d been out of her life for seven years and had made no effort to mend the rift between them until this week. She had every right to doubt his love and push him away. She had a life in Lonesome Point and a daughter to protect and couldn’t afford to let herself get swept up in something that might vanish as quickly as it had appeared. He had to prove to her that he was someone she could trust, someone who didn’t make idle promises or run when the going gets tough. He was going to have to lay himself bare and beg for her to have mercy on his suffering heart, and he had a pretty good idea how he was going to do it.

He spent the rest of Wednesday afternoon gathering supplies, and by Thursday morning, when he, Mia, and Sawyer met the rest of their group at the float launch to start their overnight trip, he was prepared to make his case to the woman he loved.

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