Unconditional by Melody Grace

Author:Melody Grace [Grace, Melody]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, new adult
Publisher: Melody Grace Books
Published: 2014-03-16T04:00:00+00:00

I wake, disoriented, to find morning light streaming through the open living room window. I look around. I’m curled on the couch under a blanket, naked, clothes strewn around me on the floor. I stretch, the fog of sleep still wisping in my brain. I’ve got a crick in my neck, and my body feels thick and heavy with exertion, an unfamiliar ache like I’ve run a marathon.

Or fucked your brains out, all night long.

It floods back to me in an instant. Garrett, pinning me down here on the couch, slamming me up against the wall, making me cry out, beg, come again and again and again.

Garrett.

I look around, but the apartment is empty, nothing but the damage we did last night. My body clenches with panic. He’s gone. Left me here, like nothing even happened, like I’m just another one-night fling to add to his collection. A notch on his bedpost, a warm, willing body.

Did he ever promise me anything more?

My heart sinks. In all the passion, the breathless pleasure, I didn’t stop to wonder what it all meant, how Garrett felt about me. Now, in the cold light of day, I realize it might not have meant anything at all.

Then I see a note propped up on the coffee table with my name scribbled on it.

Gone to hunt & gather, it says in Garrett’s messy scrawl. See you back at the beach house for breakfast.

Relief floods through my system. He didn’t just creep out without saying goodbye. That means he doesn’t regret what happened between us.

He didn’t stick around to kiss you good morning, either, a voice reminds me. That’s a friendly note he could have left anyone. You don’t know how he really feels.

I stare at the note, trying to decipher some hidden meaning, but I can’t see anything between the lines of the short message. I let out a groan of frustration. This is what I missed out on learning, all those years I played by the rules. Morning After 101, or how to wake up after a night of unbelievable pleasure without stumbling into a mess of insecurity and self-doubt.

It suddenly hits me how many times he must have done this before, and how few times I have.

Not when it matters, not when I cared.

Stop.

I catch myself falling back into tender thoughts and force myself to stop getting carried away. It was one night. One unbelievable, unspeakable, amazing night, but for all I know, that’s all it’ll ever be.

And as for the connection I felt—the utter sense of rightness that surged through me, lying in his arms? That was just biology, I remind myself sternly. Nothing but chemical attachment firing up as an after-effect of the best damn sex of my life. Just because he made me lose my mind bent over the living room couch doesn’t mean this is anything more than a simple fling.

A fling. Yes. I grab hold of the idea and cling to it tightly. A fun, no-strings, walk-on-the-wild-side kind of

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