Wanting by Miranda Silver

Author:Miranda Silver [Silver, Miranda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-29T00:00:00+00:00

PART II

HAVING

Chapter 10

Bright lights gleamed off the mirrored wall, lined with bottles. Crisp September air blew through the open door, but the bar was hot and steamy, packed with people.

Meg and Emily had insisted we go someplace upscale to celebrate our first post-summer paychecks. Now they were eyeing the ice in the bottom of their glasses, then the guys in the crowded room, wondering who they could charm into buying them more alcohol. I’d held off as long as I could before finally breaking down, on my way now to the bar to get an overpriced whisky sour.

“Hello, gorgeous,” said a male voice close to my ear. I tensed at the sudden hand on my back, in the middle of the bustling space. “You look thirsty. Let me get you a drink.”

Turning, I squinted at the handsome face smiling down at me expectantly. “I really don’t— Pax?”

He squinted back. “Hey, I know you.” He waved over another bulky-shouldered boy. “Look, Spence. It’s Will's cute little redheaded cousin.” He snapped his fingers. “Amelia...Alexandra…”

“Andrea.”

“Well, hi there.” Spence's lips brushed my cheek like we were old friends. Practically family. And bolder than when Will had stared down the three of us at that garden party, back in June, scaring off Spence and Pax with his intent green eyes. “Love the dress.”

He tweaked one of the slim white straps. If any other guy in the bar had done that, I would have swatted his hand away. But Spence and Pax were closing me in, making me dizzy with their cologne and bright smiles and expensive clothes, like they were from another world. Will's world. My aunt and uncle's world. Seeing them here, feeling them close to me, confused my senses.

“How about that drink?” Pax asked with a grin.

“Thanks. Okay, yeah. I’ll have a whisky sour.” I fanned my face, sweating now in the humid room. Spence disappeared toward the bar.

“Have you talked to Will?” I asked Pax. His arm looped around my waist. Across the room, Meg and Emily were busy flirting.

Pax smiled down at me, his eyes traveling from my face to the freckles sprinkled on my bare shoulders and chest. “Why, haven't you?”

My stomach jumped. A chill swept my body in the hot steamy bar, tightening my nipples inside my dress.

Did he know? He couldn't know. Will had promised he wouldn't tell anyone. I'd promised him too.

But our secret wasn’t safe. Aunt Rose and Uncle Richard knew, I didn’t have any doubt. The security guards who patrolled my relatives’ estate had definitely seen Will and me stumbling out of the woods, lips swollen from kissing and leaves in our hair. I didn’t want to know how many maids had passed closed doors in the morning and heard giggles, gasps, moans — mostly mine, then Will’s soft grunts as he came.

“No,” I said, trying to sound cool and calm. “I haven't talked to him since I moved to the city a couple of weeks ago. I was just there for the summer. A few months — that was it.

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