Total pages in book: 71
Estimated words: 72856 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 364(@200wpm)___ 291(@250wpm)___ 243(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 72856 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 364(@200wpm)___ 291(@250wpm)___ 243(@300wpm)
“No. Not yet,” I said instead of the truth.
This was the most normal I’d felt in ages, and I didn’t want him to let me go.
He did, though, thirty minutes later as the last call was announced over the bar’s speakers.
“Let’s go, pretty girl,” Tai ordered, standing me up from where I’d been leaning against his chest for the last 30 minutes.
We walked out with the same group that we’d arrived with.
Although Sam had acquired a drop-dead, gorgeous blonde woman who was apparently his wife.
She was wrapped around Sam’s chest, laughing into his side as Sam spoke about something obviously very funny to the woman.
Downy was on his phone talking to who I assumed was his wife since he was talking about his ‘shit head kids’ to nearly the entire bar.
Tai was silent at my side, his arms down by his own sides as he walked.
I missed his body heat.
I wrapped my hands around my chest and looked down at the gravel beneath my feet as my Crocs dug into the loose rocks.
They made crunchy squish sounds as I walked…right into Tai.
“Shit!” I cried, startled.
I looked up at his face to see him staring at a man across the parking lot that was leaning against his truck.
The man was making out with a woman who he had pressed against the gleaming red paint.
“What. The. Fuck.”
It was then I saw the man had his hands up the woman’s skirt, and he was furiously working his digits.
“Wow,” I said. “Classy much?”
“Slutty, if you ask me,” Tai grumbled, walking forward until he stopped at the passenger side door.
He opened it up and helped me in, like he’d done each time I’d gotten in, and slammed it shut.
When the couple still didn’t move, he got into his side, then started the motor.
He revved it up for good measure, rocking the truck as he’d done earlier in the night.
I laughed out loud when I saw the couple scream and scramble away from the truck.
It really was that loud.
And we’d gathered the attention of Sam, his wife, and Downy, as they, too, laughed.
The man that was using Tai’s truck as an object to screw his woman against, glared at Tai. It was a promise that some sort of retribution would be served.
“Do you know him?” I asked once he pulled out of his parking spot.
“Yeah. Know the woman better, though,” he answered evasively.
“Oh?” I asked. “How?”
“Used to date her,” he mumbled, his voice sounding clipped.
“Oh,” I said.
That made sense.
I realized he wasn’t a monk. I also realized that he was an incredibly good-looking man. It wasn’t surprising that he would be able to get a woman that was that pretty.
And, boy, had that woman been pretty.
Slutty, yes, but still pretty.
Then again, if Tai had been doing that to me, I don’t know that I would’ve cared where we’d have done it, either.
Instead of dropping me off at home, he drove to the parking lot where I’d left my car and pulled up directly behind it.
I was disappointed.
Him dropping me at my car meant he really was just dropping me off. If he’d dropped me off at my house, it would have meant that I’d been carless, and then he might feel responsible in getting me to my car in the morning, or later in the day, seeing as it was now nearly three in the morning.
I opened the door and slid out of the truck, my feet landing on the asphalt with a soft crunch.
I turned around to look up at Tai, seeing him smiling down at me from inside the truck.
“Hope you had a good night,” he said. “Let me know if you or your mom needs anything, okay?”
I nodded, wondering what’d caused the huge change in his demeanor from the man in the bar that allowed me to lean against him, to this man, the one that was distant and acted like he didn’t really want to be anywhere near me anymore.
“Sounds good,” I lied as I forced a smile at him and slammed his truck door closed.
I was nearly to my car when I heard his truck door open up.
I hurried faster, clicking the unlock buttons on my car door and dropped inside.
Well…almost.
Tai caught me by the arm before I could fully descend and pulled me back up.
“Ack,” I said, turning to look at him.
His beautiful green eyes stared down into mine, boring straight into my soul.
Leaning into me so close that the only thing that separated us was our clothes.
He was hard…everywhere.
“Come to dinner with me tomorrow night at Jack’s?” He asked.
I swallowed.
“I can do that,” I said breathlessly.
He grinned and stepped back, and I felt the loss of body heat like a physical blow.
“Be careful,” he said.
I dropped into my car, looked up at his face, then started it up.
Tai closed my door, and I refused to look into my rearview mirror until I was far enough away that he wouldn’t know I was looking.