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Every part of me wanted to mold myself to him.
But he couldn’t be here. He couldn’t make it back to the trailer with me.
Curling my lip, I twisted around to walk backward and said angrily, “You can go.”
“I’m fine where I am.”
I forced a huff from my chest. “If this is because of what you said last night, stop. I don’t need you making up for what’s true.”
He slanted a glare at me. “I’m not. I’m making sure you get home.”
“Ever the gentleman, Nightshade,” I said teasingly, then took a step toward him, planting myself directly in his path.
He stopped so suddenly and lithely, it both amazed and frustrated me.
“If you’re worried about me seeing your trailer. I’ve seen it,” he reminded me.
My jaw locked so tight to hide the trembling, it felt impossible to speak.
My chest ached and tears pricked the backs of my eyes.
Weak.
How could I forget?
“What if it all went wrong so you could find what’s been waiting for you?” I asked softly.
Leaning up on my toes, I brushed my mouth against his, my stomach swirling with heat when he responded with a kiss of his own after a moment. I allowed myself one more brush of my mouth against his. One more gentle, yet hungry kiss. And then I pulled back.
Need and anger raged in his eyes as he studied me, the conflict something I knew so well.
“Thanks for the offer.” I dropped to my heels and started walking backward. I forced a wicked smirk and lied, “But I’m not going home.”
His face fell before he was able to slip back into that mask of frustration.
“Nightshade,” I murmured as I turned, and finally let everything overwhelm me.
My wants and needs.
My pains.
Most of all my fears.
And the worry that I wouldn’t have the ability to handle any of it.
“What do you think it would be like not to come back here?” I asked Jentry a couple days later as we walked up the driveway from school.
“What’s the point wondering?” he asked with a frustrated look. “This is where we always come back to. No point dreaming about something better.”
Yes there was. Of course there was.
Everything was better than this.
Every kid at school had it better than we did.
They all made fun of us. The teachers gave us funny looks. They talked about Jentry and me like we were different. They singled Jentry out because he was angry like Daddy.
There had to be something better.
