Interception by Lisa Suzanne

Author:Lisa Suzanne [Suzanne, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Books by LS, LLC
Published: 2019-08-28T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

He holds me in his arms for a few beats against the side of my car before he lets go, and then he walks around to the passenger side. I draw in an unsteady breath as I unlock my car and slide into the driver’s seat.

I should be mad for a thousand different reasons, but time has eased some of the pain of the past.

The rest was cured by a kiss with my ass pressed up against a Honda.

I’m in deep shit.

“You know where you’re going?” Chase asks easily, and I nod.

I can’t bring myself to speak as I concentrate on maneuvering onto a busy street. We’re quiet as we both watch traffic, and once we’re coasting on the highway toward his hotel, he breaks the silence. “How far is your place from the restaurant?”

“About a half hour.”

“You ever go there?”

I shake my head. “I tend not to hang out at the old haunts.”

“Why?”

“Too many shitty memories.” My teeth are gritted when I say the words, and I’m not sure if the memories are shitty or the feelings I associate with the end are.

“You don’t mean that.”

I glance over at him, and he’s staring right at me. It’s a bit unnerving. “No, I don’t,” I admit, my eyes back on the road. “The end was painful. My whole life changed all at once, and I had to push aside my own issues to deal with the family ones that came right after.”

“That couldn’t have been easy,” he muses, and I’m glad he’s at least trying to be understanding. Much like Rose, though, he can’t really know what life’s been like for me since we lost everything.

“It wasn’t.”

“I’m so sorry, Dee.” His voice is low, and I believe him. He was doing what he thought he was supposed to do at the time—what the people in authority positions were telling him he had to do. He was just a kid, and so was I.

Did we really know what love was back then? I like to think so since I’m still hung up on the guy all these years later, but I also think I’ve grown enough at this point to tell the difference between a crush and love.

What I had with Chase was always more than a crush.

Rather than acknowledge his apology, I change the subject with a voice that’s a little too bright for the situation. “Tell me what it’s like being a football superstar.”

He chuckles. “My lifestyle has changed quite a bit.”

“How?”

“Well, my diet, for one thing, and the amount of alcohol I consume. More in season than now. And of course my workouts.”

I glance over at his abdomen. I’ve seen the spreads in the sports magazines, and I know what he’s hiding beneath his t-shirt—or, I know what Photoshop does to those muscles, anyway. The more time I spend with him, the more inclined I am to see in person what he’s got going on under there.

I clear my mind and refocus on the road before my thoughts have a chance to wander further south of his abdomen.

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