Rough Around the Edges by Ranae Rose

Author:Ranae Rose
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781483946191
Publisher: Createspace
Published: 2013-04-04T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

When his phone rang, he didn’t want to move, not even a hand. He did anyway, slowly and reluctantly. “Hey.” His voice came out flat and tired, evidence that his body was still recovering from what he and Ally had just done.

The answer that came from the other end of the connection made him wish he’d ignored the call and spent another ten or twenty minutes just lying in bed with Ally instead. It had been so nice resting beside her, stretched on top of sheets that were still warm from their body heat. Now, a prickle of unease zipped down his spine, prompting him to roll over so that his back was to her.

“Think you can make it out here on Friday?” Feltz asked. “I’m having a get together. It’s nothing big, just a few guys. Thought maybe you could finally make it to Quantico.”

“No, I’ve got plans already.” He said it automatically, though it was true – there was the fight.

“That sucks. You sure?”

“Yeah. Sorry.”

“All right. Hey, listen – did you know your folks have been calling guys from the old unit and asking about you?”

Ryan’s blood ran suddenly cold, then hot again, all in the span of a single second. “What?” Just like that, turning down the latest invitation to hang out from Feltz was the least of his worries.

“Webber told me the other day. Said your mother called saying she needed your latest address or something. I think he gave it to her. Not a problem, is it?”

Hell yeah, it was a problem, but he didn’t want Feltz to know that any more than he wanted to get into the matter in front of Ally. “No.”

“Okay. Anyway, I’ll give you a call next time I set up something at my place. And you know you can come over anytime that’s good for you regardless of what’s going on.”

“All right.”

“You sound kinda pissed. You sure you don’t want me to say something to Webber?”

“No, that’s fine.”

“All right. Hopefully you can make it to Quantico sometime soon. Or I can swing by Baltimore.”

Ryan ignored the second suggestion and the icy-cold stab of dread it sent through him. “Maybe another time.”

When he ended the call, things weren’t the same as they’d been before. It was still twilight on a Wednesday – the purple-grey light filtering through the blinds made that clear. But the peace that had come after making love to Ally had disappeared.

“Is everything all right?” She still rested beside him, though what they’d so recently done seemed like a faraway memory.

“Yeah. That was an old friend. He’s stationed at Quantico now, not too far from here. He wanted me to get together with him on Friday.”

“And you declined?”

“I’ve got the fight on Friday.” There was no way she’d forgotten – though she rarely talked about it, it was obvious that she hadn’t warmed up to the idea of him fighting since she’d discovered his TBI the weekend before.

“Maybe another time, like the Friday after this one?”

“Yeah. I don’t know.

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