Viking's Pride by Holley Trent

Author:Holley Trent [Trent, Holley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Viking, Viking romance, psychic, erotic romance, telepath, geek
Publisher: Holley Trent
Published: 2016-11-14T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Will was fairly certain Erin wouldn’t remember much about the evening. He guessed that sometime between her third and fourth beer, her brain had kicked into autopilot. She smiled and laughed at all the right times, but it would have been evident even to a child that she was no longer processing information in the way she should have.

He’d extended goodbyes from the both of them to Chris and Paul and led her upstairs. She’d burrowed beneath the covers of his air mattress and had passed out pretty much on impact.

All night long, he’d held her against him, waking occasionally when her dreams became too loud. He’d stayed up long enough to make sure she wasn’t afraid and drifted back off.

He was exhausted, but couldn’t think of a better reason to be.

Leaving Erin sprawled in the bed at eight, he showered, quietly dressed, and ran down to the coffee shop, hoping the pastry case hadn’t already been picked clean.

“I figured you’d sleep in,” came a tired voice ahead of him in line.

Will waved at Paul, who was kitted out in scrubs and wore heavy bags beneath his eyes as accessories. “I could say the same thing about you.”

“Nah, my schedule is fucked, anyway. You’re young, they say. You can work all the shitty shifts, they say.” He scoffed, and put in his coffee order.

When Paul was done and arced back to Will’s spot in line, Will said, “I’m just here for carbohydrates. I need to bribe Sleeping Beauty into staying put for a while.”

Paul nodded as he sipped, then asked, “Feeling anything?”

“Yeah. I don’t think she is, though.”

“I guessed that last night. I didn’t want to ask explicitly. You were neighbors, right?”

“Yeah.”

They moved up the line, and Will told the cashier, “Give me the six chocolate croissants you have left, to go.”

Paul leaned in and whispered, “You think living next door had anything to do with it?”

“I don’t know. I haven’t seen her in twelve years, and when I left, I had no inkling that it was her.”

“But she’s a short circuit. You might not have been able to tell.”

“Good point. Chris seems to be holding out for a fated match, huh?”

“Yeah.”

“No such inclination yourself?”

“To be perfectly honest, I haven’t wanted to give it a whole lot of thought. Maybe I’m too much of a control freak to leave it in the hands of the Fates.”

“It’s good you know that about yourself.”

Paul laughed and gave Will a poke with his elbow. “Don’t blow smoke up my ass. Hey, if you’re not busy tonight, come on down. Maybe we’ll have something other than pizza.”

“You got it.”

Will paid for the pastries, and stepped out onto the sidewalk only to end up face-to-face with Lora, who was wearing her usual prim business attire, but had covered her typically emasculating stare with a pair of dark sunglasses.

“Shit,” she muttered.

He chuckled, and got them out of the way of foot traffic. “I take it you know that I know what you were doing yesterday.”

“Jody is such an asshole.

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