One More Kiss by Kim Amos

Author:Kim Amos
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2015-10-05T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Betty ripped off her tights and hurled her skirt into the farthest corner of the store’s back room. She stomped to the bathroom and ran the tap as hot as she could stand it, then scrubbed her face until all her makeup was swirling down the drain.

When she’d toweled off, she looked at herself in the mirror—skin pink and raw and shining—and vowed never again to conduct a test about anything with any man ever. Because if you had to go to those lengths to find out how someone felt, then it was probably best to stay away.

She turned from her reflection, disgusted. She was such a fool. She’d let Randall Sondheim kiss her and touch her and she’d been on the brink of surrendering more—surrendering totally, if she was honest—only to discover what a wolf in sheep’s clothing he was.

All that talk about not wanting to feel too much and not trusting his heart, about wanting to slow down when they were just getting started. The hard lights of the bathroom put everything in sharp relief. The dark circles under her tired eyes, the lines around her eyes that got deeper with every year.

In reality, Randall’s words were probably just an excuse. He probably didn’t want to slow down.

He simply didn’t want her at all.

She shook her head, leaving the bathroom in search of the jeans she’d stashed in a back cupboard.

As she slammed around, looking for the denim, she marveled at how easily she’d bought his whole sob story about his brother and the accident and not wanting to hurt anyone else. She’d swallowed the tale whole, never suspecting that he was telling it specifically so he’d have an excuse if he wanted to walk away.

Because surely that was the only reason he had blabbed it at all.

Wasn’t it?

She had never known the pastor to lie, but then again she’d never known him to rip the tights off a woman in the middle of a store in broad daylight either.

She replayed the scene in her head over and over, cringing at the part where she told him she wanted his heart. Instead, she should have been ice cold. She should have pretended it didn’t matter. She should have been calm and cool and aloof.

But that wasn’t her style. And damned if she was going to wait around while Randall Sondheim took her to dinner and figured out whether he liked her. She knew the answer. Or at least she thought she had. It was the same answer sounding in her own brain over and over: Yes, yes, yes.

Except clearly she’d been wrong about everything.

She grimaced as she remembered all the other times she’d been wrong, too. Men who said they admired her, who claimed to enjoy spending time with her, only to do the same thing—bail as fast as they could—the minute things started to tip too far into the romantic. They’d all found excuses to be too busy to take her calls, to buy her coffee instead of a drink, to fumble for something in their pocket when she went to hold their hand.

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