Cold as Hell by Violet Paige

Author:Violet Paige [Paige, Violet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 48279736
Published: 2019-11-11T00:00:00+00:00

14

Luca

The city was loud. Much louder than Richmond. Cars honked as they drove past, and a drunk man yelled at scooter that sped past him.

Hope’s hand felt good in mine. Like it belonged there.

“So that was Izzie.” She rotated to catch my gaze.

“She seems complicated.”

Hope huffed. “She is. Very complicated.”

“You think she’s okay for the night?” I asked.

“Actually, yes. Most of the time I stay over on the couch when she gets panicked. But I think she had worked through it before I even got the email.”

“What about the date? Do you think he really slept through the group?”

She shrugged. “I have no idea. I could probably find out though.”

I laughed loudly. “Is that what you’re planning to do next? Find out if Shawn is really a shady guy?”

“I think I’m too tired.”

“Yeah. Me too.” I hadn’t even looked at hotels, but I needed to get a reservation. “I’ll make sure you are home safely and then I’ll head out.”

We were only a couple of blocks from Hope’s apartment.

“I was thinking about that.”

“How soon I would leave?” I teased.

“No.” She tugged me across the crosswalk with her. “About you not leaving. I’d like you to stay. I want you to stay.”

I filled my chest with air. I had an instant flash of an erotic image. My head between her thighs. Her juices on my tongue. Her moans in my ear.

“I thought you said no sex.”

Hope frowned. “I also said there’s a lot in between no sex and sex.”

“Oh, right.”

“But you don’t have to stay.” She began to backpedal. “I get it. It’s not really what you’re here for. You’re off the hook. Really, it’s okay.”

She called me out on it. I was a liar if I tried to tell her sex wasn’t one of the driving factors for my impulsive D.C. trip. But there was more to it. I’d been an asshole to a lot of women. I didn’t want to be an asshole to her.

We stopped outside her building. I could let her go inside alone, or I could take that passageway with her to the second floor.

“Hope, I want to stay tonight. I want to try the in between.” It might have the scariest fucking thing I’d ever said to a woman.

She lifted her eyes to mine. Her lips parted slightly, but I kept my damn impulses in check this time. I would kiss her again. But not tonight.

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