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One brow arched “You don’t remember?”
“I re, but after that, it’s a blur”
He nodded, like he expected that answer “I got you into my cruiser, and you passed out cold I tried to wake you up, but that wasn’t happening So, it was either stay here at my place or the drunk tank at the station What would you have preferred?”
“Here, so much here,” she said, aware that she had to look like shit, and so for her “Seriously, thank you soelse too “And thanks for not calling my cousins I wouldn’t have heard the end of that if I showed up at home in a cruiser”
“I suspected so” Hisclass”
Yeah, she figured Darryl probably knew her cousins even better than she did She spent her childhood summers there in Colorado, for “fresh air” her parents said But for the past ten years, she’d only talked over text and phone calls to her cousins
Darryl wasn’t th of his eyes, feeling that same flutter tickle in her belly that she felt when she’d met him at summer camp An odd flutter, really One she couldn’t exactly understand, considering he also had that whole authoritative figure thing going on, which typically was a red flag for her
Why was she even thinking about this?
She came to River Rock to be on her best behavior, and not to be the “wild child” Ready to get the hell out of Darryl’s house and to fix her wrongs of last night with her cousins, she slid out of bed “So…it’s been a while, huh?”
“Ten years,” he said
“Wow, that long,” she countered Da obvious that he rattled her a little “Well, the ten years have been good to you” She quicklyback to him
Heat flared in his eyes “I’m not the only one”
Sweet Jesus That voice Those eyes Darryl held a power that no man she’d met since hiions south warht “Thanks again for saving et an Uber before my cousins kill me” She turned around and spotted her purse on the floor next to bed
“Running away just like you did after I kissed you?”
She snatched her purse then slowly looked back at hi his hard stare on her “I never stay in one place long,” she told hiht after their hot kiss at summer cain