Page 54 of Anything but Mine

“Did it suck? He doesn’t seem the type. Kinda the overachiever if I had to guess.”

“No, it didn’t suck. It was…It was.” Mind-blowing. Earth-shattering. Soul-destroying. “Yeah, it was good.”

“Good? Is that all you have to say about sex with Mr. Rock God himself?”

“Shh. Say it a little louder.”

Nic turned to the room. “My best friend just had wild monkey sex with a certain—”

Bella clamped her hand over Nic’s mouth. “Seriously!” Nic stabbed her palm with her tongue and Bella whipped her hand away and scrubbed it down her denim-clad thigh. “Eww.”

Nic returned her hands to her hips. “There’s no one here except Adam.”

“Well, he doesn’t need the details either.”

“Oh, honey. We’re so beyond that. We shared an apartment when you were trying to fuck your way through Chelsea.”

Bella stalked away from her. “See! See, right there. That’s what I’m afraid of. This man is fling material. He’s barely more than a one night stand.”

She laughed. “Yeah, right. If he was one night stand material you would have done it the first night you guys met and been over it already.”

Bella didn’t stomp her foot, but she came damn close. “I came here to start over. To not do those stupid things I did in my early twenties. For God’s sake, Logan moves past dumb into epic stupidity.”

“Why?”

Bella’s brows snapped down. “What?”

“Why is it stupid to be with him? He’s not an ax murderer, right?”

“I hope not.”

Nick grabbed her by the jaw and squished her lips together. “Repeat after me.”

“No.”

Nic nodded, her huge brown eyes imploring. “Repeat: I’m going to have a good time. I’m not going to overthink things.”

Bella tried to pull free, but Nic and her freakishly strong fingers held her still “I’m not going to over think things,” she mumbled.

“And?” Nic shook her head a little.

“I’m going to have a good time.” Bella slapped her hand away. “Having fun isn’t the hard part. It’s the fact that when one person figures out we’re…whatever this is, then the whole town will know.”

“So?”

Bella tipped her head to the side. “So? Then there’s no going back.”

“Ahh, there we go. That’s the problem. You don’t want to even take him out for a test drive. What? You think you’re going to like him too much?”

Bella whipped off her apron and pushed the ladder back into the corner where it belonged. Yes. That was exactly the problem. The more time she spent with Logan, the more she liked him. His humor, the way he listened, making her feel like everything coming out of her mouth was ultra-important, the sadness in his eyes, the music that was his oxygen.

The way he kissed her. And oh, God, the way he touched her.

She pressed her forehead to the ladder step. “Dammit.”

The bell over the door jangled. She didn’t even have to look up to know it was him. The air in the room became charged and her skin buzzed. She was a mess, and he was there. And the only part she seemed to care about was that he was there with her. She’d told him she would find him. Instead, she’d been hiding here in her shop.

Nic sauntered over to him, taking special care to throw an exaggerated sway in her hips. “Well, hello there, Mr. King.”

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