Page 34 of Happenstance
I tried to shy away from his breath warming my skin, but there was nowhere to go. “Or?”
“Or, you could give me a reason to believe you.”
“What?”
Seriously, ‘give me a reason to believe you?’ What kind of crap was that? How do you make someone believe you? It’s not like they have a cream for that. How cool would that be though?Excuse me sir, just let me pull out my instant trust cream.That definitely would’ve come in handy a couple times with Nan. I’d package it in pinky sparkly containers so no guys would dare use it. Well, except for Logan. I don’t think the sparkles would detour him any. Not that that prick needed miracle trust cream. He already had a miracle trust smile.
Parker’s voice pulled me out of my daydream. “So, what’s it going to be, Angel?”
“Huh?”
“Are you going to give me a reason to believe you?”
Oh, right, that.
There had to be a way to make him believe me. I just had to figure out what it was. Preston was the obvious choice. Telling Parker about his brother’s visit would probably do it, but something told me Preston wouldn’t be too happy if I said anything. And I’d take an unsure Parker, over a pissed off Preston any day.
“What do you want me to do, Parker?” I blew out a frustrated sigh and slapped my hands down on my thighs. “It’s not like I have miracle trust cream.”
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“Oh, for fuck sakes,” he grumbled, “Were you always this naive?”
“Well,excuse me,Mr. High and Mighty.” I didn’t ask to be here, that was all him. And now he wanted to play games. Screw him. “Maybe if you didn’t beat around the bush, the rest of us peasants wouldn’t have to–”
His mouth crashed down on mine, swallowing the rest of my words. I was too stunned to pull away. At least, that’s what I told myself. It was easier than facing the truth, which my body was more than happy to portray for me.
Parker’s mouth moved against mine, easily coaxing my lips to part. The instant his tongue touched mine, the lies I told myself fell away. I couldn’t stop myself from melting into his arms, as I rose up on my toes, seeking more. He growled and slammed me back against the bar. The wood digging into my tailbone didn’t even bother me. As long as he kept kissing me, I didn’t care what he did.
And then, he was gone.
I blinked my eyes open, clearing the hazy fog that was clouding my mind, and found myself staring up into Parker’s sparkling gaze. A very satisfied, pleased with himself, look was written across his stupid face.
“That wasn’t so hard now, was it?”
Son of a bitch. I just fell for his shit again, didn’t I?
“Screw you, Parker! You can’t just toy with people’s emotions.”
Tears started to drip down my face at an uncontrollable rate. I tried to suck them back in, but I couldn’t. They kept coming in waves of crushing despair.
“Great, now I’m crying. See what you did.” I cried out, slapping him in the chest. “You made me cry!”
Honestly, I didn’t know why I was crying. I just was. Big, fat, ugly tears of I don’t know what kept rolling down my skin. I was definitely losing my mind. First, thinking Sean would ever do something like that, and now I was balling my eyes out because Parker had kissed me. They should lock me up. That was kind of what I expected Parker to say. After all, what kind of girl loses her shit because a guy kissed her?
A crazy one, that’s who.
Parker didn’t say a single thing. He simply wrapped his arms around me and held me close while I sobbed into his chest. Instead of calling me crazy, or telling me to stop my incessant crying, he kissed the top of my head and stroked my hair until whatever insane fit I was going through had passed.
“I’m sorry,” I muttered, wiping the tears off my face while shrugging out of his embrace. “I don’t know what’s wrong with me.”
I was so embarrassed, I couldn’t even look at him.
“You’re pregnant,” Parker said, pulling me back into his arms. “Emotional outbursts are normal. Your hormones are going crazy.”
“How would you know?” Did I miss the part where he had a uterus?
“Research, baby,” he explained. “If I’m gonna take care of you, I have to know what I’m doing.”
