Play With Me (Playing For Keeps Book 2) by Becka Mack

Author:Becka Mack [Mack, Becka]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Becka Mack
Published: 2022-10-03T16:00:00+00:00

“Fuck.”

“He’s gonna kill me.”

“I mean…” I slip my fingers up my toque, scratching at my head. “It’s not that bad. The most important thing is you’re okay.”

I drag my gaze over Jennie for at least the tenth time in the last three minutes. My hands have roamed every inch of her, checking for damage. They came up empty, other than the kink in her neck and the finger gouges on the insides of her palm. But it’s the broken look in her eyes that says there’s damage I can’t see, damage that can’t be fixed with bandages.

“Garrett,” Jennie cries, gesturing at the front bumper of Carter’s Benz. “It’s awful! Look at that dent!”

“Tell me again what happened.”

“It was snowy and icy and I-I-I was having trouble seeing.” She swipes the cuffs of her sweater across her eyes, the skin around them red and raw. “I came up to a stop sign and I tried to brake but the tires just kept spinning, and someone was going through the intersection and I thought I was going to hit them, and then somehow, at the last second, the wheels turned, and I went up on the curb and hit the stop sign.”

I shake my head, sighing. “I wish you’d called me to come get you. You could’ve been hurt, Jennie, or worse. It’s not worth driving when you’re upset and anxious and the weather’s bad.”

Her lower lip trembles, hands wringing at her stomach.

Palming the back of her head, I haul her forward and kiss her forehead. “I’m sorry. I was just worried. I’m glad you’re safe.”

Worried doesn’t begin to describe how I was feeling twenty minutes ago. I flew home, blowing through two stop signs at empty intersections, and when I found her crying on the curb in the parking garage, I nearly suffocated her in my choking hold. Her feet left the ground and I didn’t put her down until she started pummeling her fists against my shoulders.

She averts her eyes. “I don’t want to drive anymore, not in the snow.”

“And you don’t have to. I’ll pick you up whenever I’m in town.”

Her gaze floats back up, wide eyes grateful but cautious. “You’d do that?”

“Of course. Now the real question is…” I crouch down, inspecting the dent in the bumper. “What are we gonna do about this?” I rub the pad of my thumb across my lower lip, and when an idea pops into my head, I don’t know if I’m a genius or deranged. “Go get Indiana Bones.”

“What?”

“Indiana Bones,” I repeat, pressing on the dent. It flexes and bounces, and I’m hopeful enough to think this just might work. “Go get him.”

“Garrett. You cannot be serious right now.”

“Oh, but I am.”

“Garrett!”

“Jennie. Go. Get. Him.”

With a face-scrunching glare and her fists balled at her sides, she stomps off toward the elevator.

She returns a few minutes later, hugging her backpack to her chest, eyes bouncing wildly around the garage. “Got him,” she whispers. “Are we…um…” She thumbs at my car. “In there?”

My grin spreads slowly, and when it’s at megawatt levels, I fail at containing my laughter.

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