Wilder Love: A Steamy Single Dad Rockstar Romance by Jade C. Jamison

Author:Jade C. Jamison [Jamison, Jade C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jade C. Jamison
Published: 2023-06-12T16:00:00+00:00

THE CONVERSATION

Standing in that back room still mostly clothed, Elijah held me for a while. We were both damp from perspiration and, because it was cooler at the back of the bus, I started to feel the chill down to my bones.

But I didn’t want this moment to end.

I should have questioned it more, but I must have been desperate for love. I wanted Elijah like I hadn’t wanted anyone else…ever. And yet, deep down in my heart, I knew this—what we’d just done, what we’d experienced thus far—wasn’t it. I could feel the regret coming off Elijah as if it were a solid object I could touch with my fingertips.

Still, I wasn’t going to say a damn thing.

As I stood there in his arms resting my head on his shoulder, I remembered my mother with one of her myriad boyfriends—how she’d hung onto him desperately, begging him to stay, and he kept calling her pathetic. Needy. Clingy.

And he was right—she was all of those things. And more.

If there was nothing else I accomplished in life, there was one thing I had to do: I had to be different from my mother. I couldn’t allow myself to become a younger version of her. And yet here I was, desperate for love, for acceptance, for something…something I knew Elijah couldn’t give. There was some kind of hole inside my soul longing to be filled—but I had yet to figure out what that was.

That need couldn’t be placed on Elijah.

There was a rough bump and bounce as the bus felt like it was sliding on ice, and that scared the shit out of me. Domini fussed a little but when I turned my head, she appeared to still be asleep. But that was all I needed to completely break the spell. I pulled away from Elijah and started arranging my clothes back to where they belonged as I moved toward the crib.

“Is she okay?” Elijah asked from behind.

“I think so.”

Standing over the crib, I kept an eye on Domini while trying not to worry about whatever had happened with the bus—but I was sure we’d hit some kind of ice patch and had been sliding off the road. Until the bus stopped in Minneapolis, I would be a nervous wreck.

When Elijah joined me, he whispered, “I’m really sorry that happened, Madison.”

Yeah. Just what I’d expected. Just like the kiss. Just like everything.

But I had no words…so I just shook my head and shrugged before running my fingers over Domini’s hair and internally I hoped he wouldn’t say another goddamned word—because if he did, I might cry.

There was again another sensation of the bus sliding and I gritted my teeth, trying to remain calm.

It must have been evident on my face.

“I’m gonna check on the driver. We might have to cancel tonight’s show.”

I nodded. And it wasn’t until he was walking down the hallway that I breathed again.

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