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“The underwear.” I nod toward her left hand, and Avery’s smile grows.
She straddles my body, and I feel her warmth against my stomach, needing it to be lower. But I’m patient, at least for the minute. “You’re naughty, aren’t you?” She pushes my head back against the pillows until I lie flat, then lays her underwear against my eyes.
I don’t move a muscle, needing more. Avery kisses me, then moves down my body, rubbing against every single inch of me before settling between my legs.
“I’m going to love this,” she whispers throatily.
I wait for her touch, for her breath on my body, anything. At that exact moment in time, I’ll take anything Avery gives me, willingly. Then I’ll ask her for more and more. Until I can’t take it.
Seconds pass with my heart beating so loud it drowns everything else out. I keep my eyes closed, not wanting to ruin the mood.
When I can’t take it any longer, I feel around, but she is gone. “Avery?”
She doesn’t answer.
“Avery?”
I open my eyes and pull down the makeshift blindfold, only to see her gone.
Refusing to believe she’d leave, I scramble off the bed and reach for my pants, where the keys to Casey’s truck are.
Gone. But she left my gun, thankfully.
The bedroom door is open, too.
Looking down, I see that she has taken my shirt along with her dress and bra. She’d left silently, too. I hadn’t even heard the front door open or close, and that thing always creaks.
By the time I make it downstairs with a pair of sweats on, I know I screwed up. She’s left, and I don’t have a single person to blame.
I sit on the front porch and hang my head in my hands, doing my best to get control of my emotions. Anger, frustration, and regret all war for control. None of that compares to the memory of her in my arms, though. Nor does it touch the smell of her on my skin or the way she tasted.
“Shit.” I groan.
Not only did Avery steal the truck, but she left me with blue balls on top of it.
10
AVERY
When I drop Casey’s truck off at his parents’ house at seven the next morning, Mrs. Matthews is sitting on her front porch looking for all the world like she is ready to vanish into thin air.
I’d meant to walk away, really I did. To go home and get back to my bed, which I’ve only gotten a few hours of sleep in after leaving Carter in bed. I can’t help it though. He insulted me, called me a fuck-up, and then accused me of pretending. He doesn’t know anything about me. I don’t owe him shit.
Seriously, I start walking away, and then I hear her sniffling, and my heart breaks right there in my chest. Resigning myself to the fact that I have to do something, I turn around and head onto the porch. They live in a large old Colonial style house with a wraparound porch, and Mrs. Matthews is sitting on the side of the house staring out toward an empty field that would have more of the yellow Bellwort that I love in the spring. Her bench doesn’t rock or move in the slightest, and if I hadn’t seen her right off the bat, I wouldn’t have noticed her.
She doesn’t acknowledge me as I step onto their porch, and my heart continues to ache for her and everything she’s lost. “Mrs. Matthews?” My voice barely rises above a whisper, and even I can barely hear it. But she turns her head and a pair of dark-brown eyes lock on mine.
At least now I know where Carter got his eyes. With that thought, I immediately flush while the memory of what I’d just done to him a few hours before comes flashing back.
“I’m sorry, Avery. None of the boys are here, if you’re looking for them.” Her voice hitches, and she sniffles some more.
“Oh,” I hedge while putting a bright smile on my face. “I’m not here for one of them. I’m here for you. Plus.” I point at Casey’s truck, which I’d left a few hundred feet away. “Casey left his truck somewhere easily accessible, so I thought I’d return it.”
Her eyes are still listless, empty shells reflecting back at me without any substance.
“You know,” I go on. “I don’t have to work today. Why don’t I keep you company? At least for a little while, okay?”
She doesn’t nod, but she does scoot a little bit to the left so that I’ll have space.
