Destined to Change by Harley, M. (top android ebook reader TXT) 📕

unless you count when I have the radio blaring and dance around my house, and I don’t think you count that. “I don’t really know how to dance.”

“Just follow me, honey, and you’ll be a pro in no time.”

He grabbed my hand and pulled me out to the makeshift dance floor, pressing me against his strong muscular chest. I couldn’t tell if the room was spinning, or if it was just my head. Just being that close to him was making me crazy. And then I did the one thing I shouldn’t have done - I looked up. Big, gorgeous brown eyes were staring down at me. I gulped and my heart literally skipped a beat.

We danced through several slow country songs, never taking our eyes off of each other. I had never felt that connected to any other man besides Declan. Declan. He was never far from my thoughts, but I had to admit, I hadn’t been thinking about him much while Jaxon and I danced.

When he started to lean down toward me, it just seemed natural. He brushed his lips along my neck right below my ear. I shuddered from my head to my toes and everywhere in between. He looked down at me through those long brown eyelashes and gently pressed his lips to mine. The kiss was soft and sweet.

But when he tried to slide his tongue into my mouth, I pulled away and found myself screaming, “What the hell?”  I ran to the bathroom and as soon as I slammed the door behind me, he was knocking on it.

“I’m so sorry, Loralei. I didn’t mean anything by it.” He was quiet for a moment. “Oh, shit I did, I needed to kiss you. I still do. But if you don’t want to, I won’t push you, I promise. Please just open the door and let me in.”

I leaned against the bathroom door. “I can’t believe you did that. I didn’t ask you to kiss me. I didn’t want you to kiss me. Why would you do that?”

Utter silence. Jaxon didn’t say a word. I slowly opened the door and he was gone. I couldn't believe he just left me there. I ran to the table and noticed my purse was gone.

I headed outside and found Jaxon sitting in the truck, holding his head in his hands. If I didn’t know better I would’ve thought he was crying. But he was definitely not the kind of guy you would find crying with his head in his hands, right? I opened the door, and he never moved. I climbed into the truck and shut the door.

Finally, he looked over at me. “Loralei, I’m so sorry I did that. Something is wrong with me, I fuck up everything.  I was having such a great time with you, and I just couldn’t help myself. I wanted to kiss you so bad. I’ve been dreaming about what you would taste like since the first time I saw you on the farm. But you’re scared. I get that. I won’t let it happen again. You can trust me.”

I kept my eyes glued to the floorboard, unable to look at him. “It’s okay, let’s just forget this ever happened, alright?”

When I finally looked at him, he nodded, and we drove all the way home in silence; not even any classic rock on the radio this time.

Jaxon

 

I was right, I was in trouble with this damn woman.  When she explained what had happened to the twin’s dad, my heart hurt for her.  I could tell by the look in her eyes that her heart broke that night.   I just wanted to hold her.  I wanted to take all of her pain away.  I hadn’t known this woman long enough to feel this way about her.  I have too much baggage.  I can’t add that shit to her life.  It’s bad enough that I have to deal with it, she shouldn’t have to deal with it too.

When the waitress brought our beers, she was staring me down.  Did she not fucking see that I was with someone?  It wasn’t like Loralei and I were together, together, but still.  This skank needed to back the hell off.

I explained to Loralei, “I needed to get away from the big city for a while. There was some shit going on, that, well, it was just better for me to get away.”

She asked, “Are you running from the law, mister?”

I wasn’t running from the law, but I had had some run-ins with the law.  So I just shrugged my shoulders and smirked at her.

I was so happy when she asked me about my work.  I had always loved to talk about my passion for cars. “I work on cars.  Old cars are my specialty.  I’ve always been kind of fascinated with them.  My mom said when I was little, I took everything in the house apart, just so I could see how it worked and then put it back together.  I kinda feel that way about cars.  I like to take a look under the hood and see what I can do to make her purr.”

I would love to make Loralei purr.  There was that blush again.  I was really starting to love that blush.  I took a swig of my beer and grinned at her.

We were having such a good time.  I didn’t want it to end, so when the skanky waitress came over I ordered us a couple more beers.  Boy that pissed Loralei off.  She shot me a look

“I know, pinky- swear and all, but I’m really having a good time getting to know you. And it’ll take more than a couple of beers to get me drunk.”

She finally agreed and I asked her, “Wanna dance?”

I could tell by the way she tried to slide down under the table and hide, that she didn’t want to dance.

She finally answered, “I don’t really know how to dance.”

This was gonna be fun.  “Just follow me, honey, and