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But I can’t let them know I’ve fallen or they’ll give up college to stay with me. They’ll waste the best years of their life on a man past his prime. By the time they realize there are better men out there that can give them a life of adventure, they’ll have lost so much time. So many chances. As much as I want to keep the girls to myself and never let them go, I can’t be the reason they deprive themselves of experiences.
My deputy’s advice comes back to me, unbidden.
Just tell her you’re interested in someone else, sheriff.
That ought to help her take the hint.
My phone is ringing in my lap. It’s Bella. Probably calling to ask if I’m coming home.
The advice my deputy gave me might be terrible, but I’m desperate. Staying away from Bella and Charlie is only making them try harder to bring me under their spell. I need to make them realize a relationship with me isn’t in the cards. I need to snap this growing bond between us in half, before it can no longer be broken and they insist on giving up college.
Not giving myself time to second-guess my decision, even though it feels deceitful and wrong, I answer the phone.
“Bella.”
“Joe! You’re at that terrible accident, aren’t you? It’s on the news.”
“Yeah, I’m here. Getting ready to leave, though.”
“Oh, good.” Her voice drops to a purr. “Are you coming home now?”
Her sweet, eager voice in my ear alone is giving me an ungodly cockstand, even after the tragedy I’ve witnessed tonight. My hands ache to be on their skin or cradling their faces. If I had all the freedom in the world, I would lay them down, side by side on the bed, stripped bare and I would kneel between them, playing with their clits at the same time. Stroking those little things with my thumbs, watch their skin grow pinker and more flushed, their eyes unseeing as they gasp and whine up at the ceiling.
I’m sweating now.
I’m losing it.
The need to fuck them is so severe, I’m shaking.
I’ve got to put an end to this before my obsession becomes unmanageable.
If it hasn’t already.
“No, I’m not coming home,” I force out. “I’ve got a date.”
The silence from Bella is deafening. I hang up before I can take back the lie, throwing my car into drive and burning rubber toward a sports bar I know at the edge of town where I can kill some time. And nurse my injured heart.
Bella
I stare downat the phone in my hand, the world around me bubbling like hot lava.
That did not just happen. No way.
I’m being strangled by an invisible rope, hellish heat engulfing my body.
Jealousy like I’ve never experienced in my life boomerangs around my skull, leaving righteous anger in its path.
“What’s wrong?” Charlie yawns from her sprawl on the couch. “Is Joe coming home?”
“No,” I choke out.
Obviously sensing my distress, Charlie sits up, the strap of her frilly nightgown slipping down one shoulder. “What’s wrong?”
“He…he said…” A screech shoots upward from my belly, straight from the devil himself and I throw my phone a hundred miles an hour across the room, putting a hole in the drywall. “He has adate.”
Charlie goes eerily still, but even from a distance, I can see the pulse going wild at the bottom of her neck. “Um. Excuse me?”
“That’s what he said!”
