Total pages in book: 73
Estimated words: 73311 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 367(@200wpm)___ 293(@250wpm)___ 244(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 73311 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 367(@200wpm)___ 293(@250wpm)___ 244(@300wpm)
“The one with the white eyes?” I looked at her.
The man I was thinking about had white contact lenses that made the irises of his eyes appear white instead of having color like most people did.
She shivered herself.
“That one,” she confirmed.
Kevin really was creepy, and I knew for a fact that he dealt drugs.
I watched him outside our apartment every day around five o’clock.
He’d lean against his old beat up Ford Explorer, and act for all the world like he was just enjoying a lazy rest.
Not that he could pull that off with the sweat pouring off his face.
A car would pull up, and he would walk to the car, do a couple of weird fist bumps and a handshake, and then he’d pocket something.
He’d then do another weird fist bump handshake and the car would take off just as quickly.
“Maybe I should tell Davis he isn’t allowed to play with that kid anymore,” I muttered. “Do you think it’d piss him off?”
Sunny started to laugh.
“I think, with us being his stand-in parents, it doesn’t matter if we piss him off.”
A knock sounded at our door, and I reluctantly peeled my eyes away from the two kids who were still talking animatedly, and walked to the door.
I don’t know who I expected to see there, but it sure wasn’t Tawny.
“Uhh,” I hesitated. “Can I help you?”
“He’s always been mine and you know that, Gen,” Tawny said quietly.
I blinked.
“Umm,” I licked my lips. “Okay?”
Tawny’s eyes narrowed.
“I made a mistake when I was eighteen, but I won’t be making it again. I’d appreciate it if you didn’t try to pursue anything with Aaron,” she continued.
Understanding dawned.
“Listen, Tawny,” I started, but she held up her hand.
“I am well aware that he finds you attractive. He always has.”
Tawny and I had been good friends at one point in time, but after a couple of times in high school when Aaron had been visiting, and his eyes had strayed to me for a few seconds too long, Tawny had kicked me to the curb.
At the time, I hadn’t understood why, but now…well, now it was all too understandable.
She felt threatened by me.
Though Aaron didn’t know me, I sure as hell knew him.
“Tawny,” I said. “I like Aaron but we’re only friends. And if he wants you, I’m sure he’ll let you know.”
I didn’t say what I really wanted to, though.
That I would fuck him if I wanted to.
Not that I would.
Not when they had something there.
But the moment I saw there wasn’t, and he gave me the indication that he wanted me, I wouldn’t be against taking him for a ride.
Which made me sound like a complete whore, but I couldn’t help it.
I’d had a thing for that man since high school, and it was only worse now that he was older, and his body was so freakin’ amazing.
“Just make sure you keep it that way,” she ordered, her lip curling up slightly.
I sighed.
“You know, from an old friend, you might want to work with actually looking him in the eye,” I told her. “All you can do is look at his collarbone. If you ever did get him back, you’d have to actually act like you found him attractive.”
And oh, God, was he attractive.
Even with the scars—which I most definitely saw each time I looked at him—he was the most handsome man I’d ever laid eyes on, and always had been.
He used to set my heart to fluttering all through high school while he was there on his breaks, and he did the same thing even now, ten years later.
“I do look him in the eye,” she lied.
I snorted, as did Sunny, who’d been listening in on the entire conversation from her perch by the window.
“Shut up. You don’t know anything. It’s hard,” she snapped.
“I understand you may think it’s hard, but it’s not,” I informed her. “Those scars…those don’t define who he is. They don’t take away from his masculine beauty. They only add to it. They’re a story. A story that you damn well know likely hurts him.”
She seemed to slump.
“I’ll try.”
Yeah, right.
I’m not sure what Tawny was trying to accomplish.
She’d gotten divorced about a year ago, and was obviously back on the prowl for a man who would take care of her.
A man who would do her bidding, support her, and make her feel pretty like her ex-husband used to do. An ex-husband that I still couldn’t figure out why she left.
Me, I didn’t want that. I wanted a partner.
A man that would make me feel pretty but would also accept the same from me in return.
“Thanks for stopping by,” I lied, starting to close the door.
Just then, Aaron’s door opened.
He got one look at Tawny and immediately closed the door again before Tawny could even turn around, making me want to laugh.