Seven Nights To Surrender by Grey Jeanette

Author:Grey, Jeanette [Grey, Jeanette]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781472228499
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2015-11-02T05:00:00+00:00

chapter FIFTEEN

Kate had let herself get way, way too comfortable with Rylan doing all the work on their adventures together. It gave her an uneasy, restless feeling, realizing how much she’d come to rely on him.

She mentally shook her head at herself. Well, not today. Today, she sat in her seat on the Metro on her own, watching the signs go by. Navigating the system and the language barrier all by herself.

Part of the appeal of foreign travel was finding your way around, after all. Immersing yourself in a whole new place, hearing different words in different tongues. She’d been missing that part of the experience, letting him do all the talking for her.

She’d gained another kind of experience, though. Her cheeks flushed warm as she tried not to think about the things they’d done these past few nights. It had been good. Really good. But that wasn’t the point right now. It didn’t matter how much she’d been enjoying herself—sex wasn’t going to help her figure out her life.

And nothing was as easy as Rylan made it out to be.

Her stomach did a twisting set of flips as she recalled his reaction to her grad school dilemma. He’d made it all seem so simple. She loved art, so therefore she should go for it, give it her all. Risk everything. The very idea of it was terrifying.

And thrilling. She’d never gotten that kind of support before. Had someone stand up to her father’s voice in her head, telling her that drawing was a waste of time. She was a waste of time.

The twisting in her stomach turned into a hard, painful clench.

Rylan’s words had made her feel better about considering taking this chance. But they were just a few words, after years and years of being made to feel like she wasn’t enough. Sure, Rylan’s opinion was the one she wanted to believe. But she still had to prove that she was worth this chance. At least to herself.

Before long, her stop came up, and she rose, clutching her bag close as she made her way off the train and up to the surface.

Of course, that was where she really had to start paying attention.

With her mental map firmly in grasp—and her paper one tucked away so she didn’t look like too much of a clueless tourist—she headed north, keeping an eye out for the things that looked familiar. More than once, she half turned to point something out or ask a question. To grab Rylan’s hand.

She rolled her eyes at herself as she crossed the street. Stupid. She’d left him behind not only because she needed some time to herself—which she did.

But also because she was embarrassed to admit that she was going back to someplace she’d already been.

Her very first day with him, she’d sworn she’d find some time to go back to the Louvre, but as her time in the city had flown by, it hadn’t been the old, grand paintings in the museum that had called to her to visit them again.

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