Quiver by Spangler Rachel

Author:Spangler, Rachel [Spangler, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Brisk Press
Published: 2024-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

Kylie sat in her car around the corner from her childhood home, watching fat snowflakes fall on the windshield. She didn’t want to see anyone right now, especially her parents. Not with her clothes rumpled, her body languid and freshly sated, but her mind jumbled discordantly. She wasn’t even sure she could make sense of everything that’d happened, much less form sentences coherent enough for someone else to comprehend.

She’d have to wait here until her family went out for their usual Saturday evening cocktails with the Collinses, or sneak into the house. She’d done so plenty of times as a teenager, but no matter how she’d behaved in the hayloft this afternoon, she didn’t have it in her to crawl through her bedroom window anymore.

Her hands trembled as memories rose to haunt her, ones from the days she didn’t want to repeat, and the nights she just had.

“Damn it.” She slammed her palm onto the steering wheel. It wasn’t that she regretted what’d happened or her role in it so much as she wanted to scream at Fletcher’s reaction. The ultimate power play was to remain unaffected. No matter what Kylie had done or reduced her to, nothing changed. How could that be? After ravishing each other to the point where the earth seemed to tilt on its axis for a few breathtaking minutes, all Fletcher could think about in the end was, well, the end.

As she stared out the increasingly snow-covered windows, she tried to hold the tide of emotions at bay. She’d never gotten better at facing rejection, not the ones from years ago or the one from earlier this afternoon. She had to look ahead, no matter how many things threatened to pull her back. Back to Fletcher’s mouth on hers, back to days when what they’d done came easy and without consequences, back to the moment when Fletcher had pulled away—or rather all moments, because it had happened so many times.

She shook out her hands, cold from their tight grip on the steering wheel, but she couldn’t shake the sting of Fletcher’s abrupt withdrawal. She wasn’t stupid or oblivious, and while she couldn’t deny Fletcher’s charge of her being a little self-centered, she wasn’t heartless. She’d seen the fear accompanying awareness in those dark eyes. She’d watched the walls go back up as if putting more barriers between them might somehow protect Fletcher from the earthquake of emotions cracking their foundations, but it still burned that the connection they’d shared for those explosive moments together did so little to soften Fletcher’s self-preservation instincts the way they had her own.

What they’d done together meant more to her than an exquisite release or a convenient physical outlet. In those moments, she’d seen her fully again and had allowed the same in return. Sure, they’d been rushed and raw, but they’d moved together with a grace and knowledge that couldn’t be undercut. Their bodies had allowed what their brains couldn’t, and they knew each other. If she had someone

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