Page 40 of Fall For Me
“Jesus Christ. Focus!”
“I heard you. Don’t make myself available. You’re absolutely right. I’ll back off,” I tell Cam and add, “Okay, now back to you. You have twenty minutes until I come over and blow your mind. When I get there, I need you to do me a favor.”
“What’s that?” she asks as the light turns green.
Shifting into gear, I take a left. “Keep your onion-loving mouth away from me.”
“Okay, so no blowjobs. Got it.”
“Wait! I didn’t mean?—”
Beep-Beep-Beep.
That little shit hung up on me.
When I finally pull into Cam’s garage thirty minutes later, it’s with a renewed sense of determination. I don’t care what crazy shit I have to do to make this girl come, she’s going to. Mark my words, Aiden Brodie is a fucking sex machine, and Cameron Graham is about to be taken to new heights.
Thirteen
Sean
A storm is brewing, and not outside this house, but inside ofme. The cool night air drifts in through the open window, whipping my curtains around. I sit in the dark with my head resting back on the couch, watching their shadows dance across the ceiling.
“I don’t know what else to do, Doc. Every move I make seems to be the wrong one,” I rant, taking a sip of my whiskey. “That woman has me so fucked up. I’ve never been a sappy mother fucker, but now I’m doing things I wouldn’t normally do, saying shit I never thought I’d say.”
Carter laughs on the other end of the line. “Welcome to being in love, brother.”
“Fuck. It hurts like a bitch.” Ice clinks against the side of my glass as I lean forward and set my drink down on the coffee table. “We take one step forward and two steps back.”
“Hannah’s guarded. You messed with her head, man.”
“And now she’s fucking with mine.”
“What a tangled web you weaved.”
“Not helping. You know what else isn’t helping? Aiden running tosave her every goddamn time she needs something. I’m trying here. I’m fucking trying, but dammit, she keeps calling him for everything. Like tonight. He was at the dealership, pretending to be her husband and negotiating a deal on her behalf. Tell me that’s not some fucked up shit, Carter? The more I fucking think about the situation, the more pissed off I get.” I drag a hand down my face. “She gives him emotional access to her that I’m not getting, and it fucking wears on me.”
“She formed a codependency after her diagnosis. It doesn't matter?—”
“You know about the gene mutation?”
“Yeah. She came over and told us yesterday. It’s a hard concept to grasp that she’s been hiding this from our entire family.”
“She thought she was protecting her dad,” I tell him.
“I know. Now, back to what I was saying. It doesn’t matter how much you want to be with her, the fact still remains that you two are not together yet, so you can’t hold her to a standard?—”
“Carter!” River shouts on the other end of the call, cutting him off. “Either I peed all over myself?—”
“Fuck, baby, that’s a lot of piss!”
“Or my water just broke!”
Oh, shit.I sit up straighter.
“Fuck, baby . . . I . . . fuck!”
“Don’t act all surprised when you’re the one who did this to me?—”
