Suzie’s House 352 : Don’t Ever Go Away Again

“Wait. Drew. Where are you going?”

Drew paused with one foot already in the hall and the other still in Suzie’s room. The light from the hall spiked the darkness around him. She hadn’t bothered to turn the light on in the room when she’d gone into the hall to confront Gene, and Drew hadn’t bothered with it when he tucked her in.

He glanced over his shoulder, knowing it was a dangerous thing to do. The slice of light from the hall would make her disheveled look even more waif like. The effort to refrain from seducing her grabbed him in the gut and twisted.

“I’m…” He paused, scrambling for self control. “I’m trying to do what’s right. I know I have to start from scratch with you after the way I messed everything up. I know there is no way around it. So… please don’t make this any harder than it already is.”

He’d been lying on the floor of the den, listening to Trent snore, and trying not to remember a sweet past with Suzie. What would his life be like now if the FBI hadn’t sent him to New Mexico? The sound of Gene sneaking into the house wouldn’t normally have registered, but Drew was too keyed up to miss it. His body still sang with imagined sensation as he went upstairs to break up the building argument between Gene and Suzie.

Forcing his feet to take him even an inch away from Suzie left him listless and moody. He noticed that she didn’t respond to his comment. What had he expected? That Suzie would throw off the covers and launch herself into his arms? Wishful thinking. A horrible man like him didn’t deserve to be loved.

He forced himself into the light in the hallway. A dark, hard floor awaited him in the den. He had to go. Maybe all the way back to Montana.

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