Going the Distance by Julianna Keyes

Author:Julianna Keyes [Keyes, Julianna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary
ISBN: 9781623421670
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Goodreads: 24000895
Publisher: Omnific Publishing
Published: 2015-01-27T05:00:00+00:00

They ran along the path by the water. Spring was in full bloom and the sky was full of fuzzy white cottonwood seeds, blown free from the trees and filling the air like warm snow. Jarek plucked several out of Olivia’s hair as they ran, admiring the way her ass twitched in her shorts, and the bounce of her breasts with each step. He was sufficiently distracted that she had to swat him on the arm to get his attention.

“Are you listening to me?” she demanded.

“I—” He was going to lie, but she had a built-in bullshit detector. Plus he was pretty sure she’d seen him ogling her tits. “No.”

She huffed and shook her head, but he knew she wasn’t mad. “What were you saying?” he asked.

“I was telling you how excited the kids were about the trees you made. Davy—I don’t know if you saw him in the front row?—he’s already talking about what colors they should be. And I can’t be sure, but I think the Spidermans are trying to come up with ways to climb them.”

“The kids seemed to like you,” he offered as penance for not listening.

“Some do. Some don’t. You saw Alan, right? The Spiderman who wouldn’t pick a dance move? That kid loves to dance, but he hates me. Won’t say a word.”

Jarek thought back to the boy who’d dismissed Olivia’s offer during the song. “That kid doesn’t hate you,” he said seriously. “He just doesn’t know what to make of you.”

She shot him a baleful look. “I’ve been his teacher for four months. He knows what to make of me.”

He shrugged and jogged a circle around her, knowing it drove her nuts. “I’m just telling you. He’s intimidated. He wants you to like him.”

“How do you figure?”

“I know how to read people.” Plus, he knew exactly how it felt when Olivia offered you an opportunity you didn’t know what to do with.

“So what do I do?”

He circled her again, tugging her ponytail until she tried to elbow him in the stomach. “Just keep trying.”

She stomped on his foot and nearly tripped them both. He caught her around the waist with one hand and braced the other on the low wall before they could topple into the water. “That was a freebie,” he murmured in her ear, righting them. “Do it again and I’ll let you fall.”

She tipped back her head to look him in the eye. “I don’t believe you.”

“I’m still going to make you pay for today’s little stunt.”

She was the picture of innocence. “What are you talking about?”

“You know exactly what I mean. Did you really think I was going to dance in front of a room full of children? Stick my ass out?”

“I saw you tapping your feet to the beat. Don’t be an Alan, Jarek. You can dance if you want to.”

He smacked her ass, hard. “We’ll see about that.”

They jogged in silence for a minute, then Olivia spoke. “Was it just me, or were Brant and Dale acting stranger than usual today?”

“They’re just dickheads.

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