Hers by Becca Jameson

Author:Becca Jameson [Jameson, Becca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Erotic Romance
Amazon: B00SAUH2NA
Barnesnoble: B00SAUH2NA
Goodreads: 24514575
Publisher: Hartwood Publishing
Published: 2015-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“How’re your parents?” Zane asked as Gage set the weights he’d been curling back on the rack.

“Good. The same.” He shrugged. Of all the guys, Zane knew the situation with his parents the best. He was the EMT on call when his dad had his stroke.

“Did you see them Sunday?”

“Yep. Same as usual.”

“Did you take Kayla?”

Gage frowned. “Hell no.”

“What do you mean ‘hell no?’”

“She doesn’t even know where I was. Not ready for that.” He shook his head. No way in the world he was going to bring Kayla over to his parents’ house yet. Wasn’t on his radar. Though he had felt a cringe of weirdness when he told her he wouldn’t be with her on Sunday.

“Seriously? Dude, you two are like an item. A thing.”

“Yeah. So?”

“So, your mom has been waiting for this day for years. Why would you leave them guessing? They’re gonna love Kayla.”

“Yeah. I know. But I’m not ready.”

“Ready for what? An invitation? I’m not following.” Zane stepped around the weight rack and got in Gage’s space. Too close.

Gage backed up. Zane was a close friend. Super close. But he was on Gage’s last nerve. “Kayla needs a firm Dom right now. She’s been through some serious shit. It would be confusing to her to see me in a different role yet.”

“What the— Are you for real? What’s confusing about having dinner with a man’s parents? She totally digs you, man. I can tell by the look in her eyes that you walk on water for her. I don’t think she expects to submit to you in front of your parents. She’s not stupid.”

Gage turned to another weight machine, preparing to work his thighs. He knew that. It had nothing to do with her submitting to him. “You know how I am with my dad,” he muttered.

Zane hesitated.

Gage hoped Zane was done with his tirade.

“How’s that, Gage? Loving? Doting? Scared?”

Gage flinched. “Yeah, that.” Shit. What was Zane driving at? He wasn’t ready to share that side of himself. What was wrong with that?

“You need to rethink this, dude. I’m not kidding. You’re wrong. I don’t care what Kayla has been through, and I’m not even asking. I’m just saying, she’s a smart girl. You won’t fuck her up by letting her see your softer side.”

Gage pushed his leg out and breathed through the maneuver. Those words rang in Gage’s head as Zane gave up the cause and walked to another machine. Maybe Zane was right., but it wasn’t a chance Gage was willing to take yet. Besides Kayla being used to seeing him as a firm Dom with all his ducks in a row, unflustered by anything, he had to admit a part of him was simply unwilling to open himself up to that level of vulnerability. The kind of vulnerability he felt when he sat with his dad, talking to him for hours, fighting back tears a man shouldn’t have to shed for his parents.

He wasn’t ready for her pity or the looks. It made his stomach clench thinking about it.

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