Escape in You by Rachel Schurig

Author:Rachel Schurig [Schurig, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Coming of Age, Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 1492876690
Google: 6eejAwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00FVRND38
Publisher: Rachel Schurig
Published: 2013-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Zoe

I feel like I’m living in a bubble. Like somehow I’m insulated from the normal bullshit that gets me down. My mom is doing amazingly well, better than I’ve seen her in months. I can almost convince myself she might actually be okay, that somehow the meds have started working or the chemicals in her brain have evened themselves out. I come home from school and she’s up. I make her an early dinner and she actually eats it. It’s wonderful.

And then there’s Taylor. Part of me is terrified by what’s happening between us, but I do my best to talk that voice down. Because, really, I do not care. I don’t care how dangerous it is to get attached to him, how much potential there is to get hurt. I don’t care because he’s so amazing, and he makes me feel amazing. I can’t bring myself to question that or even worry about it. I just want to be with him.

As is quickly becoming the norm, he meets me on campus Friday for lunch. We share a plate of fries in the noisy food court, and I can’t help but notice the way pretty much every woman in the room is staring at him. That might piss me off, but, to be honest, I can’t blame them. Dressed in faded jeans and a blue button-up work shirt he looks every bit as good as he does in his street clothes. The grease on his forearms only adds to the effect. His hair, as ever, is a tousled mess, and there’s plenty of sexy stubble on his chin.

I almost feel bad for the staring girls. As good as I’m sure the view is from their vantage point, they have no idea what they’re missing. His eyes are where the real magic happens, the way they gleam with amusement and wicked humor, the way they deepen and intensify when he watches me eat. Sexy doesn’t even come close to describing this man.

And he’s all mine.

“Okay, what is that smile about?” Taylor asks. He leans forward so his face is inches from mine. “Please tell me what put that look on your face because it was hot.”

“Yeah?”

He leans even closer. “Oh, yeah. So hot I’m starting to think we’re misusing these lunch breaks by eating.”

I grin. “If you must know, I was thinking how lucky I am to be the only girl in here that knows what you look like naked.”

“God, Zoe,” he moans. “You cannot say stuff like that to me in public. I’m liable to ravish you on this table.”

“Eww,” I say, leaning back to break the spell. I don’t want to, but I also don’t know how much more sexual tension I can take without being able to touch him. “Food court tables are so not hot.”

“You have a point there.”

He leans back in his chair, too, watching me over the table. “So, what are we doing tonight?”

I know it’s silly to feel a little rush at the fact that he assumes we’ll be together tonight, but that doesn’t stop me from smiling.

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