Free Falling for Trouble by Jenika Snow Page B

he didn’t make her chest hurt in the good way like Abe did. It was
hard to let her heart go in another direction, especially concerning another
man, but it was something she had to make herself do. Letting herself think
like this was bad. Sophia needed to let it go, needed to let Abe go. He was
going to ruin every guy for her because all she could do was compare them to
him.
    Breathing
out, she turned away from the window and went into her room to get dressed. She
was meeting with Hunter in a few hours and planned on having a good time. At
least, she hoped she could do it, because now all she could think about was
Abe, but then again, how was that different from her norm?
    ****
    One week later
    Abe
nursed his beer and watched Sophia laugh and smile with Hunter-fucking-Bronson.
Seven whole damn days had gone by with only a few texts and phone calls between
him and Kid. Ever since he brought her breakfast and then left after she got
the call from Hunter, they really hadn’t seen each other. It was hard as hell
on him. He felt like he was missing a piece of his life. It didn’t matter how
many times he made the effort to see her. She was either not home or on her way
out to see that fuckwad.
      Yeah, he was sour over all of it.
    There
hadn’t even been a good time for him to talk to her and tell her what he had
wanted to say a week ago. He refused to pour his heart out to her at Tiny’s.
When he told her he loved her, it would be just the two of them.
    Tipping
back his bottle, he felt his dick start to harden. Sophia wore a jean skirt,
one that wasn’t obscenely short but that showed her long, tanned thighs. God,
what he wouldn’t give to feel those thighs wrapped around his waist. An image
sliced through his mind, another one of his mystery girl. Her legs had been
wrapped around his hips as he pushed inside of her and pulled out. He imagined
Sophia’s face on his mystery girl’s body and had to shift in his seat to ease
his raging erection.
    The
sound of Kid laughing had his cock jerking in his jeans. She’d always had a
beautiful laugh, soft and sweet and the kind of sound that made a man fall to
his knees and do whatever she asked. As if she sensed his brutal stare, she
turned around and looked at him. Their gazes held for several long moments, and
then something Hunter said had her smiling and turning back to him. Sophia
placed her hand on his arm and leaned into him. Damn, all he could think about
was whether she was letting Hunter fuck her, which had all kinds of rage
coursing through him. They were awfully friendly for only dating a week, but
then again she had known him for years. Abe gripped the beer bottle so hard he
wouldn’t have been surprised if it shattered in his hand.
    Hunter
reached up and put a piece of her hair that had fallen from her ponytail behind
her ear. He disappeared back into his office, and Abe straightened when he saw
Kid walking toward him. She held a glass of beer and she smiled at him. When
she stopped at the edge of the table and set the beer in front of him, he
caught a whiff of the perfume she wore, the perfume he bought for her. A surge of possessiveness slammed into him and
he had to force himself to stay in his seat and not make a claim to her in
Tiny’s like some kind of maniac.
    “Hi.”
Her tone was light and friendly. “Thought you could use another beer.”
    “Thanks,
Kid.” He was glad as hell they were talking, but he didn’t know what to say.
One week seemed like so much longer than seven days. She looked down at her
shoes and took a deep breath. His fingers itched to drag her to him, but he
held back. He wanted to take her somewhere nice where it was just them and he
could open his heart to her.
    “Listen,
about last week.” She lifted her gaze and he was struck speechless at how
beautiful she was, at how green her eyes were, like cut emeralds. “I want to
apologize for putting you on the backburner. I haven’t come by for breakfast
and I feel really bad.”