Zeke (The Powers That Be, Book 2) by Harper Bentley

Author:Harper Bentley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: football, baking, bad boy, alpha male, college age

*Week Seven—8th Encounter*

At the knock, I sat up straight, hastily wiping my face with my hands not wanting to be caught this way by anyone, then turning to look out the window, saw Zeke, hand on top of my car, bending down looking worriedly at me and I completely lost it, just came undone, as the tears started up again. I don’t know how it happened, but the next thing I knew, I’d somehow gotten out of Jezebel and thrown myself into his arms.

“Hey. Hey, what’s wrong, Scarlett?” he asked, holding me tightly against him as he smoothed his hand down the hair that lay against my back.

I couldn’t talk for a while as the sobs overtook me but Zeke just held me, continuing to run his hand down my back, talking softly to me, saying what, I have no earthly idea, but I could hear the rumble of his voice in my ear that was pressed against his chest which I found comforting.

When my sobs started diminishing, though, I began listening to what he was saying, and, God, he was so sweet.

“It’s gonna be okay, baby. I promise. I’m here. I’ll help you. You’ll be fine,” he murmured.

And I think that’s the moment I fell in love with Zeke Powers.

~*~*~*~

You know that moment of weakness when you do something you know you shouldn’t but you do it anyway and you really don’t give a crap what your consequences will be because that’s what you want to be doing at that very moment? Like telling yourself you’ll watch just one more episode of your favorite show on Netflix even though it’s after midnight and you have to be up at five?

Yeah. I was totally experiencing that right now but on a much grander scale.

I was falling for Zeke. I knew I shouldn’t. I knew I needed to stay focused on helping my family get out of debt and move forward so we didn’t have to pinch pennies anymore, but I didn’t care. Zeke was good. He was kind. And if that was bad for me, then so be it.

I pulled back and wiping my face, looked up at him. “Sorry.”

He frowned and canted his head to the side looking at me. “For?”

I took a deep breath and let it out. “For being such a baby.”

“I don’t think you’re a baby, Scarlett. Matter of fact, I think you’re pretty tough, and since I know that, I know something must be really wrong.” God. So sweet. “So what is it?”

I took in another deep breath and started telling him all my woes, of course, not holding back and blurting everything as per usual when I talked to him.

I told him about my mom, about having to drop out and get two jobs, everything, finishing up with Jezebel’s betrayal.

He nodded in understanding. “Let’s get in my truck before you catch a cold.” He opened the door for me, helping me in. See? Sweet. When he got in his side, he started the truck then looked back at me waiting for me to tell him more.

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