Page 65 of Catch Me When I Fall

He moved once more, heading straight for me and leaning down, his hand planted beside my pillow, studying me. Then, without a word, he touched his lips to mine and then he was gone, heading for the door.

I sat up, panic taking over. “Are you coming back?” I asked, my voice shaking.

He looked over his shoulder. “Yeah, Sunshine. I’ll always come back to you.”

Then, he was gone.

Chapter 16

Carrie

One month later. Astoria, OR.

I paced back and forth in my bedroom, waiting.

All month, I’d been waiting, but now, anxiety was filling me.

He hadn’t come back, and I was holding on to the foolish dream that he would tonight. Between his last visit and his first, it had been almost a month. Now, I was hoping it was the start of a beautiful pattern.

I stayed in the living room until the moon was high in the sky. Then, I took a long shower, hoping he’d be where I found him last by the time I got out.

He wasn’t there.

Tear stung my eyes as I climbed into bed, and I stayed up as long as I could.

My bounty hunter never showed.

Chapter 17

Carrie

Five months later. Astoria, OR.

He never came back.

Chapter 18

Grayson

Six months ago. Astoria, OR.

I shut her bedroom door behind me, ignoring the heavy feeling in my chest and the raging hard-on in my pants while trying to wrap my head around what I just did. Her cum was still on my fingers, her scent on my jeans, and I could still feel her lips against mine.

Fuck, but I liked it. Too much.

I wanted more.

I never wanted to stop.

Carrie was my beginning and ending now.

After weeks of trying to convince myself that coming back to Astoria was a bad idea, I did anyways. For the last few weeks, Red Snake Investigations had been working on something for one of our larger clients, and I dove into it headfirst, hoping it would get my mind off the woman who consumed my thoughts day and night.

Now, I was standing outside her bedroom, fighting the primal urges inside me, fighting every ounce of desire I had to go back in there and fuck her senseless, fill her with me, claim her as mine.

I couldn’t do that.

Not yet.

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