Page 33 of Opposites (Never) Attract
“I haven’t agreed to anything,” Sunshine said. “Go shove that in the gossip mill.”
“Now, Sunshine, there’s no call to be ornery.”
“Oh, I’ll show you ornery.” she growled low in her throat, and I realized Mayor Gallup was a dead man walking.
“We gotta get going, Sheriff, thanks for saying hello.” I put the truck in gear and left Mayor Gallup standing there with his mouth open.
“The name is Kaitlyn!” she yelled out her open window. “I can’t believe no one has challenged him after all this time.”
“Don’t look now, but the rumor is, your sister is thinking about running for mayor on the heels of her success with managing the Feud Day Festival.”
“Harmony?” she asked, and then nodded. “Good. He could at least have someone challenging him.”
She looked out the window as we drove past the school and the clinic.
“This town,” she said. “Maybe it should vanish.”
“There’s a lot of good people who call this place home,” I said.
“I never knew them.”
“Maybe this is your chance,” I said.
She looked so mad. Belligerent, even. In fact, she looked exactly how she used to in class when the bullies were tormenting her for knowing all the answers.
“Hey,” I said, reaching over to squeeze her shoulder. “Breathe.”
“I’m just so…” she shook her head and I knew what she was.
Frustrated. Tangled up in her own head. She was moving a million miles an hour in her brain and getting nowhere. She needed to take it out on someone, and if I wanted to ensure she didn’t have another run in with someone local, it was best to take her out of town.
“You want something to eat?” I asked. I’d say what she needed was some exercise, but those fancy sandals weren’t going to hold up on the trails around here.
“No. I don’t want to eat,” she said, and then she pinned me with her brown eyes. That amber color that made me want to drink. “You know what I want?” she asked.
I’d never known what was in a woman’s head. And, least of all, Sunshine’s. But my dick twitched like it knew what she was about to say.
“I want to play.”
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I knew what this was.Her mother had just dropped a life changing bomb on her head, and she was feeling out of control. The man she thought was her father, wasn’t. The man who’d been her mother’s nemesis her whole life, was. And she now had five half-brothers.
Her head was spinning, her entire existence had been called into question, and she wanted something to focus her. Someone to focus her.
“You said what happened at the spa couldn’t happen again,” I reminded her.
“You heard the mayor, all sorts of pigs are flying.”
I laughed, but shook my head.
“Don’t say no,” she said, and I couldn’t help but look at her.
That look in her eye was what got me. Belligerent and pleading all at the same time. I could do this. I could sort her out and keep my dick in my pants. It wasn’t crossing a line, she wasn’t drunk.
She just needed someone to clear out the garbage in her brain, and I happened to know what she liked.
