Spark (Boosted Hearts #4) by Sherilee Gray

Author:Sherilee Gray [Gray, Sherilee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sherilee Gray

Hattie looked up at Dex and willed him to kiss her. She hadn’t realized it until he asked, but, yes, she had wanted him to come after her because she knew she shouldn’t go after him. How could she when she’d decided she needed to focus on work, on her new career, on proving her controlling parents wrong?

And after the upsetting call from her mother that morning, she was more determined than ever to make it on her own.

Fidgeting with the label on her beer, she forced herself to share, because Dex was a great guy and she didn’t want him to think she was playing games with him. “In my family, you don’t ask for what you want. You do what’s expected.” She glanced up at him, then back down. “Honestly, I’ve never gone after a guy. I’ve dated the men who asked me, men my parents chose for me, who they deemed acceptable. I’m used to playing their games, watching, waiting. The first thing I ever had the courage to go after was this, my life here, my job with Shay. So I’m sorry, if my behavior is…confusing. Doing things on my terms is all kind of new to me, but I’m working on it.”

Dex took her chin and tilted her head back, his gaze locking with hers. “Your family sounds as fucked as mine,” he said.

“Really?”

“My father was a gambler, left me and my mom when he owed too many people too much money. He fathered three other sons to three other women and fucked off and left them all as well. My mom worked long hours. I was alone a lot. That’s why I don’t talk much, I guess. After Mom died, I got to know one of my brothers. Let him get close and he fucked me over, so yeah, I get it. Family can be tough.”

That was the longest sentence Dex had ever said to her.

“I’m sorry. That sucks,” she said, but she didn’t try and console him. He didn’t want her pity, like she didn’t want his.

His rough-skinned fingers curled tighter around his beer bottle, and he dipped his chin.

“So you’re a Marine?” she said, changing the subject away from his family since she could see it wasn’t something he liked to discuss. But she also wanted to know everything she could about this man, despite knowing she should keep her distance.

“Yeah.”

“How long were you on active duty?”

“Ten years.”

“What made you decide to stop?”

He shrugged his big shoulders. “Got injured bad enough I had to walk away.” His jaw tightened.

“Do you miss it?”

“Sometimes.”

While he was answering her questions, she was going to keep asking them. She was hungry for any tidbit about the big, silent man sitting beside her. “Why did you come here? Lucy said you guys barely knew each other before you accepted the job with Hugh.”

“Family shit,” he said, that jaw getting tight again.

She was being nosy, pushing, but she couldn’t stop herself, a trait her parents had tried very hard to squash.

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