The Curvy Sister by Jordan Bell

Author:Jordan Bell [Bell, Jordan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: C429, Extratorrents, Kat
Publisher: Sweet Stories Press
Published: 2012-12-23T05:00:00+00:00

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I woke hours later with him curled into my side. He touched his mouth close to my ear as if to whisper a sweet nothing.

“You snore.”

“You are not charming.” I shoved him and rolled onto my stomach and buried my face in my hands. He laughed sleepily and I peeked at him through my fingers. “Tell me about New York.”

He smiled without opening his eyes, caught somewhere between the real world and dreamland. I tucked my hands near my face and watched his eyes flutter beneath his eyelids.

“I thought there was a rule against talking,” he murmured.

“This isn’t talking,” I said matter-of-factly. “It’s foreplay. A brief interlude between positions.”

“Tease.”

I wanted to tell him that in a few weeks I’d be homeless and I didn’t know if I wanted to stay in Castle Creek or explore the world. I’d never thought of myself as an explorer before now, but I could become one. I could do my job from anywhere there was internet.

I needed something irresistible to latch onto to give me hope that there was something else out there for me once I lost the farmhouse. But I couldn’t bring myself to tell him any of that and shatter the quiet, blissful sanctuary we’d created around my bed.

“Mmm, it’s…loud.” He rolled closer to me and settled a hand over my half covered thigh. He traced the words across my skin with the pad of his thumb while he spoke. “The lights, the cars, the people…it’s a very sleepless city. Not like here. The lights never go out and there aren’t ever any stars. There are too many people and the weather gets weird trapped between all those skyscrapers.”

“Oh.” That was not the irresistible temptation of adventure I’d hoped he’d paint for me. If that was the world outside my farmhouse, I didn’t want it.

“But…” Jason trailed off for a moment before cracking open his sleepy eyes. Such a beautiful shade of blue, muted now in the dusky twilight. “There’s this energy we don’t have here. Everyone has purpose and ambition and you can feel it. It’s progress and ideas and hope.” He rubbed his eyes and settled back down into his pillow. We were so close I could feel the heat on his skin. “I don’t know, it sounds ridiculous. It’s an engine of change and it’s amazing what can happen when you put that many minds in one place. I like being a part of that.”

“You sound like you miss it.”

“I do.” He traced the contours of my face with his eyes and briefly his fingertips hardened against my hip as if he were about to pull me to him. “I miss Castle Creek when I am away. They are both home.”

“How long are you staying? I mean, you have a life you have to get back to, right?” The question on my mind for weeks came tumbling out before I could shove the words back in.

I didn’t want to know. I did. I didn’t.

Jason opened his eyes again. His smile vanished behind his serious gaze.

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