Total pages in book: 48
Estimated words: 43827 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 219(@200wpm)___ 175(@250wpm)___ 146(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 43827 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 219(@200wpm)___ 175(@250wpm)___ 146(@300wpm)
It was eye opening to realize that the same way I’d spent all these years trying to hide my true feelings from her and everyone else, she’d been doing the same. And I knew all this from just being inside her body. There’s no way that what I’d felt that day was new to her. No woman lit up for a man like that unless there were some serious feelings involved. Now she was giving me looks because she’d seen the little byplay between Marcy and I.
Come to think of it, Marcy has always had a strange fascination with my girl. I used to think it was some left over high school drama, but now I’m not so sure. Cami tends to bring out the worst in some people and I could see her being one of those females that all the other women despised. I let my eyes scan the room and wasn’t surprised to find Marcy off in the other corner keeping a watchful eye on Cami and her friends with a not so friendly look on her face. Well shit.
Chapter 10
CAMI
I think Mr. Colfax has bitten off more than he can chew. So what I liked his kisses and other things, he didn’t know that and I certainly wasn’t about to let on. And where in the Sam hill did he get the idea that he could tell me what I can and cannot do. I was a little thrown there for a minute what with him being all forceful and such. It’s easy to say that no one has ever taken that tone with me, and the fact that it had a not too unpleasant affect on me was neither here no there.
This evening sure wasn’t shaping up the way I’d expected it to. I had half expected to have to prove to him that I hadn’t been affected by his loving or the rejection that followed, I was more than prepared for that. What I wasn’t expecting and could never be prepared for was the way he looked at me as he spewed all of that stuff he’d said to me. I was almost convinced that had we not been in a room full of people he would’ve taken me down to the floor.
Now my whole program was messed up once again. I hadn’t given Joel or the librarian a second thought all evening, except when someone mentioned the broken engagement, and I felt kind of silly that I had been going to marry him now. What had I been thinking? I know what I’d been thinking alright and he was standing right across the room keeping his eye on me.
I was doing my best to keep up the charade, showing a nice balance of hurt but not too much because I’m strong. It was my first time in a public setting after all, and people were expecting something, how would they react if they knew I didn’t give a fig about that, and that my mind has been full of Grant for the past week? I’m pretty sure no one would understand; I barely understood it myself.
I can pretend all I want, even try to convince myself that it was nothing, but seeing him here tonight, having to be in the same room with no means of escape, I had no choice but to accept what was real. The things he’d said to me earlier were enough to wipe away the sting of his rejection. Now I was confused by this new turn of events, but there was nothing I could do about it now, I had to wait until we were alone. Leave it to him to switch things up and leave me floundering.
I was relieved to have the answers to why he’d disappeared and to know that I’d blown the whole thing out of proportion, but I wasn’t about to lay myself at his feet either. He was gonna have to work for this if he wanted me and I sure knew how to put him through his paces.
I was hiding the fact that he was getting to me very well, or that I even cared one lick about anything he’d said, and then she walked in. I all but forgot the conversation going on around me and for a minute there I forgot that Grant and I weren’t really a couple. All that talk about me flirting and there he was with her hand in his chest.
His eyes caught mine over her head for a split second and I gave him a scathing look before I turned my back on him and pretended a great interest in what was being said. Now I was back to being pissed. How could I have forgotten what started this whole mess in the first place? That it was rumors of him asking her to marry that had driven me to make the stupid mistake of becoming engaged myself? His woman indeed, we’ll just see about that.