Protecting the Girl Next Door (The Protectors Book 3) by Samantha Chase & Noelle Adams

Author:Samantha Chase & Noelle Adams [Chase, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-29T18:30:00+00:00

Nine

Kristin

I spent the entire week in an emotional fury—torn between excitement over this new thing that had developed with Declan, confusion about whether I should have gotten into it at all, and worry about his admission of his real job and purpose here.

I’d always known he couldn’t really be a teacher, but I’d never expected him to work in security and close protection. It fit him better, like he’d finally put on the right-sized outfit in my mind, but the fact that his job was dangerous was like a blaring warning siren in my head.

Nick’s job had been dangerous, and he’d been killed. I wasn’t about to risk something like that happening again to Lily and me.

All through the day, though, I kept telling myself it didn’t matter. Declan and I had been very clear and open about things from the beginning. It was just a fling. Nothing serious. Nothing to get all uptight about.

Sex was sex. And sex with Declan might have been mind-blowing (I flushed hot just remembering it), but it was still sex. It didn’t have to—it wouldn’t—change my life.

I was mature and reasonable enough to have sex without assuming it would turn into love. And I was intelligent enough to know that I could separate the two.

Declan wasn’t a man I could ever fall in love with.

My teaching all day was a little frazzled. A few times I actually forgot what I was talking about, and my students all giggled when I admitted it. It was ridiculous. Focus was something I’d always been good at, and it was just annoying that Declan had somehow managed to take that away from me.

I kept hearing his voice though. Promise me that Friday night wasn’t a onetime thing.

I didn’t want it to be. I was dying to have sex with him again, but first I had to assure myself that I was able to handle it without my whole life spinning out of control.

After school on Thursday, I was doing some lesson prep that I’d let slide for the past couple of days, while Lily read quietly in the corner of my classroom. I stared down at the math book and instead of equations, I pictured myself showing up at Declan’s place later tonight. After Lily went to bed, I could get my elderly neighbor to sit with her. Then I could just go over there. Tell him it had to be casual, no strings attached. Then he would take me to bed.

I desperately wanted to be with him again. I’d only seen him in passing today, but his eyes were speaking. I could read the expression clearly.

He wanted to be with me again too.

I took a long, slow breath and tried to think through the idea reasonably.

“Mommy,” Lily said from her corner.

“Yes, sweetheart.” I didn’t look up from the textbook since I felt like I’d been caught, like I shouldn’t have been having such thoughts in the presence of my daughter.

“Is there a blanket I can use?”

“What?” I looked up then and saw that Lily was on the floor.

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