Page 2 of His Burning Addiction
She closed her eyes for a moment before she looked him square in the eyes.“Blake, I endured your humiliation, abuse, and torment through our senior year of high school.I don’t have to any longer.We’re adults now.I’m sure you can find another weak, pathetic person to push around.Now, I have to go.”
“Wait,” he said as he followed her.
She shook her head, unlocked her door, and got in.She closed and locked the door before he got to it.
“We can’t even have a conversation?”he asked through the glass.
She rolled her window down a bit.“I don’t think so.I don’t have the energy to block your jabs and insults.”
He sighed.“I’m not here to torment you.”
She put the vehicle in gear.“I don’t think you know any other way with me.Please move.”
He stepped back when she started to back up.Most of her wanted to run from him, but that small part that never disappeared made her want to jump into his arms.
She glanced back to see him watching her drive away with an angry scowl on his face.She had to remind herself he couldn’t hurt her any longer.She was there to help her mother in her last stage of cancer, and then she would leave again and never come back.
Chapter Two
Blake couldn’t believehe’d actually seen Hanna walk into the grocery store as he drove through town.He’d waited for so long to see her again, and now that she was there, a sliver of anger grew that she’d made him wait as long as he had.He knew it was unreasonable, but he’d dreamed of her for years.
Once again, he’d let his exasperation show, and it pushed her away again.When was he going to learn?
He watched her drive away and wanted to howl out his frustration.He was mostly pissed at himself for yanking her chain and her for running from him.
But what did he expect her to do?
He’d spent many nights kicking himself for tormenting her.He knew precisely why he’d done it, but it didn’t make it better.He’d wanted her with a passion that had scared him the first time he laid eyes on her.
She was such a meek little mouse, but she was hands down the most beautiful girl around, and he wanted her.It wasn’t just her beauty that did it for him.He’d seen how gentle she was, and she didn’t seem to have a mean bone in her body.When he realized how smart she was, he decided she was the whole package—everything he wanted in a woman.
Yes, he was young.Some people would say that he was too young to think about forever.But the fact that his mother left him when he was a toddler, and he’d never seen her again, made him want a woman of his own.One that would never leave him.
Although he had Dottie, their lifelong housekeeper who pretty much raised him, there had never been a woman around the ranch.After his mother left, his father turned all his attention to the property.Unless his father was good at hiding, Blake surmised he never dated either.
He didn’t want to end up like his father, sitting in his office alone night after night for decades, and then going to bed without a warm body next to him and someone to hold him.
