One More Try by Rachel Hanna

Author:Rachel Hanna [Hanna, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-01-20T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Sadie continued to smile politely across the dinner table at Rick, who seemed nice enough but kept eying her like he was trying to imagine her shape beneath the flowing dress she wore. Joan had been right. He and his cousin, Randy, who was her date, were both quite sexy, though for her own personal taste, Sadie would prefer someone a little less juiced. Between the strangely deep voices and the bulging muscles that barely managed to not rip the clothes they wore as they flexed with even small movement, it was obvious these ‘personal trainers’, as they called themselves, more than dabbled in steroid usage. She hadn’t become a nurse without understanding that natural anatomy couldn’t reach that level without a supplement.

Of course, Joan fawned all over Randy, who seemed just as taken with her. Meanwhile, Sadie got along just fine with Rick but felt dirty or oily when he tried to touch her. And the more time she spent listening to the conversation going on around her, the more she realized that she needed to be stimulated by someone on an intellectual level. It sounded a bit arrogant in her own mind, but Sadie was on a much higher intellectual plane than Rick. In fact, even in his compromised state, Jake still had the ability to stimulate her in a way this guy never could.

And the fact that her thoughts shifted in that direction irked her. She’d come out, not to create a lasting relationship with someone, but to have an experience with a nice, good looking guy and a close friend who could distract her from everything she’d been going through. And still, she couldn’t get her mind off a man she’d been able to stop thinking about for more than two years. It was maddening.

“Is everything okay, Sadie?” Joan’s voice, as well as a nudge under the table, brought Sadie back to the present. She turned, almost embarrassed at having let her mind drift, to look at Joan, who gave her a pointed stare. “You look like you’re a little far away.”

With an apologetic look, she said, “I’m sorry, with the stress at work, I’m just a little tired. But I promise, I’ll get my second wind in a few minutes.” She didn’t believe that herself; she was too preoccupied. She couldn’t stop running Jake’s words through her head, considering just how much of it was true and how much of it was just the manifestations of a poet. She would have given him every sincerity, the complete benefit of the doubt based on their deep conversations the night they’d met. But his ability to simply walk away with nothing more than a note negated that impression and made her wonder just how honest he really was.

Shaking her head against the continued thought process, she tried to dislodge the images of Jake in her mind, both those of him in youth three years ago and those of him with the contusions to his face now.

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