Page 49 of Anywhere With You

CHAPTERTEN

Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick.

Della awakened to a splitting headache. The throbbing in her head beat in rhythm with her heart.

She tried to roll onto her back but a dead weight across her chest pinned her down.

What the hell?Alarm rang through her body, but her eyes were glued shut, so she couldn’t open them to see where she was.

Wait, what’s wrong with my eyes?The moment she forced her mascara-caked lashes open, she shrunk back from the brilliant light framing the closed curtains.

Curtains?Her bunk didn’t have windows.

She sat bolt upright, dislodging the weight.

I’m not on the bus.

When she turned to take in the room, liquid sloshed in her brain.

Oh, God. Her stomach roiled and bile shot to the back of her throat. Snatching her phone, she raced into the bathroom and shut the door.

When she caught her reflection in the massive mirror, she wanted to die. Crazy hair sticking out in chunks at all angles, mascara smeared, and…was her skin green?

What happened last night?She forced herself to think, to remember, but it was all a big blank.

Okay, get a hold of yourself and think.

Think. Come on.

Nothing. Just the ticking in her head, roiling nausea, and the kind of foggy mind that only comes from blacking out.

Okay, first things first. Who’s in that bed?

Well, a man, obviously. Because she could recall the hair on that muscular arm slung across her chest. But…which man?

The memory of crouching on the stairs and listening to Bex and Mary-Therese’s conversation rocketed through her.

I yearn for her every second I’m not with her.

She closed her eyes and let it sink in.

Bex yearns for me.

She almost melted into a green-tinged puddle, but then she remembered what he’d said next. I won’t let her be my rebound.

For the second time, loss crashed over her.

She’d finally found her soulmate…and she couldn’t have him.

So, who did I have last night?

Did I have sex?She glanced down at her naked body.

She wasn’t sore anywhere. It had been long enough since she’d been with a man that she’d definitely feel it if she had.

In her entire life, she’d never drunk so much she’d blacked out.

Reaching for the robe hanging on a hook on the back of the door, she noticed a sparkle on her finger.

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