AllFreeNovel
Share Us
Her shoulders sagged. “Oh Dest. What am I going to do with you?”
“Get me a one-way ticket to Australia?”
“Not sure that would solve anything, love.” She smirked at me. “I have a feeling that he might just follow you there if you went.”
“As if.” Something swooped inside my stomach. The idea that Joey might feel like that about me was not only scary but invigorating. And more than anything, it was weird that I felt like that. The last man who’d given me butterflies like that had also given me a broken arm, cracked ribs, numerous black eyes, and a bald patch at the back of my head where the hair had never grown back.
“What are you going to do then?” Laura asked. “Got to Australia or tell him how you feel?”
“Christ no to telling him, and Australia will have to wait. I’ve got a tour to finish first.”
“Then you’ll tell him?”
My eyes widened. “No!”
Laura rolled her eyes. “You need to grow a bloody backbone; you do not want to spend the rest of your life alone.”
“I might.”
“Bullshit. Besides,” she said, playfully punching me in the shoulder, “you’ve got too much sexiness to not share it around.”
“Being alone doesn’t mean I can’t have sex,” I stressed. “I can still share my sexy.”
Laura screwed up her nose. “But why would you bother with anyone else when Joey Farrow gives you everything you need and more?”
It was true, the idea that any other man could give me the same level of orgasms that he did was unthinkable. I’d never had a man know exactly what I needed, what I wanted, what I liked in the way that Joey did. Then again, I had been the one who’d schooled him all those years ago. He wasn’t a virgin, but he was a twenty-year old who’d basically shagged a load of girls on instinct. I showed him what a woman needed and the best way to do it.
I was under no illusion that lots of women had benefitted from my teaching, and he’d learned a lot more since. He was supreme in bed, no two ways about it. It certainly would be a shame to lose out on all of that.
“He’d never hurt you. You know that don’t you?” Laura said, patting my leg. “With blows.”
“I know that. And the other kind of hurt doesn’t exist for me.” I’d always vowed that no one would break my heart ever again. Yet then there was Joey. I knew that if I let him in even a tiny bit he had the ability to obliterate it, never mind break it. The way that Laura was looking at me, she knew it too.
“Please don’t let something that could be amazing go because you don’t want to have to deal with heartache, Destiny.”
“Told you, it won’t be a problem for me. You have to put your heart into someone’s hands before they can break it.”
With a slight shake of her head, Laura pushed up from the bed. “Well, for what it’s worth, I don’t think he’d hurt you in that way either. Now, I’m going to make some bacon butties if you want one?”
I was hungry and was gasping for a cup of tea, so threw the duvet back and dropped my feet to the floor. “Sounds good to me.”
As Laura left, I picked my phone up from the bedside table and noticed a text had come in while it had been on silent. He’d sent it just after midnight when I was already in bed. An early dinner and two bottles of wine meant Laura and I were home and in a drunken sleep by eleven.
Joey
Are you awake? I can come and get you if you want to come back here but have had a drink. It’s lonely here without you.
My heart leapt when I read it. The smile on my face was instant. The butterflies in my stomach were swooping. Everything made it perfectly clear to me that I was falling into something that I wasn’t sure I could get out of.
CHAPTER 21
JOEY
Glancing over at Destiny in the seat next to me, I flashed her a smile. She didn’t acknowledge me in any way but just turned to look out of the window at the passing scenery. We were on the way to the airfield to get the plane to Italy.
“Joe, I can be there in half an hour,” Beau said on the other end of the line, regaining my attention. “You’ve just got to say the word.”
I didn’t know how many times I had to tell him I didn’t need any of them to hold my hand. Maybe I was being a twat by denying my best friends’ help, but I had to go to my dad’s funeral alone—well, except for Destiny.
