Walk (Gentry Boys) by Cora Brent

Author:Cora Brent [Brent, Cora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-05-21T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

STONE

I had to be the luckiest son of a bitch ever to walk out of the Central State Penitentiary front gates. That was the only explanation for how a guy with lint in his pockets, grief in his heart and a prison record on paper could catch the eye of a beautiful, classy woman like Evie Dupont.

As I watched her sleep that first night we spent together I made her a silent promise that I would do anything to be the man she saw in me. Then I curled up alongside her and slept better than I had in years.

It was easy, falling right into a relationship. I’d never known it could be so easy. All it took was the right girl.

Most nights we spent at Evie’s place since she didn’t have the inconvenience of a roommate. When I worked an event I wouldn’t be finished until very late but she had given me a key and always sighed with happiness when I finally crawled into bed beside her.

Evie was absolutely fucking incredible. I liked everything about her. Her humor, her face, her body, the way she pressed her lips together when she was thinking about something. How she’d reach for my hand at odd moments like she didn’t realize she was doing it. The fact that she always had two dozen half read books lying around. The way she’d quiver and whisper my name the moment she came and smile in her sleep when I touched her. Every hour I was away from her I couldn’t wait to be with her again. She always ran straight into my arms without hesitation. If all of that meant we were falling hard then I sure didn’t ever want to hit the ground.

My cousins were thrilled by the fact that we were together. Bash was amused. Evie’s friends were perplexed. I got to meet some of them when we met up for drinks to celebrate the birthday of an old college friend.

Bash got dragged along as a reluctant wingman. I’d forgotten that he’d hooked up with that neighbor who happened to be in Evie’s circle. Her name was Darcy and she was a piece of work. I had the feeling she and Evie were only friends out of habit. She greeted Evie with a phony cheek kiss, looked right through Bash and only acknowledged me with a cool nod before retreating to a squad of some expensively dressed stick figures who sipped cocktails and hunted with hopeful eyes for something with deep pockets.

“Table Tots,” Bash grumbled. “What did I tell you?”

Evie wouldn’t let us be sidelined though. She kept one arm around me and laughed at Bash’s bawdy jokes, even telling a few of her own. Bash already liked Evie but by the end of the night he was looking at her like she was a goddess.

“You’re one fortunate bastard,” he muttered to me at one point.

I pulled my girl closer and grinned. “I know.”

Evie’s friend Kendra was the only one who seemed interested in talking to us.

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