Hunger: A Second Chance Angel Romance by Stasia Black

Author:Stasia Black [Black, Stasia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-24T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

LAYDEN

Present Day

When we pull into Vlad’s compound and Phoenix leads me downstairs to her wing, I can’t help but feel déjà vu. During the month we stayed leading up to the wedding, I kept to the guest wing with my family.

She even has another computer lab there. I’m pretty sure Vlad had it installed there for her to show anything to visiting dignitaries; he wouldn’t have to put up with leading them down her pink-walled part of the compound.

As we push through the double doors to her wing, though, I see things have changed since I was last here. “The walls aren’t pink anymore.” Instead, they’re a pleasant beige.

“I grew up,” she says shortly, all but stomping down the hall. When she shoves open the door, I’m glad to see at least the lab is still much the same.

“Hey,” I ask, reaching out a hand but not quite daring to touch her shoulder. I withdraw it. “Are we okay? After what… happened back there?”

“We’re fine,” she snaps. “Why wouldn’t we be fine?”

“Uh…” I just stare at her as she adamantly stares at the floor, then sits down and starts booting up the computer. “Because we just had sex.”

“That wasn’t us,” she bites out.

“Um. It sure felt like it. I remember everything.”

She swings around in the chair, all but kicking me with how fast she moves. “It wasn’t us,” she says again adamantly.

“If it wasn’t you that I was having sex with, who was it?” I demand. “Ammit? Because it was my first time.”

Her angry eyes soften, half in disbelief. “What? That was your fir—” She cuts herself off and looks at the ground again. “It just—”

“It just, what?”

“It can’t be like that between us.”

“So what happened earlier was nothing to you?” I don’t know why I’m pushing this. But I never could hide my cards with her.

If the sex truly meant nothing to her, fine. I’m not the man that pushes anything a woman, especially this one, doesn’t want. I’d throw myself in the sea first. I just need to know now before I get pulled any deeper into this. The way she looked at me while we— I just have to know.

“It can’t be,” she says.

“Because of your professor?”

“What?” She looks up at me, startled. “Don’t be an ass. He’s just my advisor.”

“Are you sure he knows that?”

She stands up and shoves me in the chest. “Don’t be an ass. I mean it.”

I want to repeat it so she’ll shove me again. So I’ll have some form of physical contact with her. Even standing as close as we are, I can feel the heat and intensity from back in the alley rising up again between us.

“Was it only Ammit?” I ask, taking another step into her so she can feel the heat from my chest.

Her eyes flip from my eyes to my lips, back to my eyes.

Back to my lips.

And then she shakes her head. Hope rises in my chest before she steps back.

“She could already be fleeing the city.

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