Chapter 19
“I thought you left already.” I stuttered out.
“Nope.. just figured you would like some food after last night.” He said with no emotion on his face and his eyes bored into mine. “Did you want me to be gone?”
“no.. no, I was just surprised is all. Thank you for making breakfast it smells really good.”
He nodded his head at me and turned back around. He started putting the eggs, bacon and hashbrowns on plates and placed mine in front of me on the kitchen island. I felt bad, the way he asked if I wanted him to have already left, made me feel like a total bitch. I rubbed my hand down my face and took in a deep breath. Next thing I know he is handing me a mug full of coffee.
“I know you like coffee first thing in the morning, so I made a pot.” He then sat right next to me at the island and started to dig in.
“thank you.. how did you know how I like my coffee?”
He put his fork down and turned to look at me, “because I remember when you would stay over with Hattie, that was the first thing you would do in the mornings, was grab a cup of coffee.”
I was in udder shock. I thought he completely ignored me when I stayed over at Hattie’s during the summer. He turned back to his plate and kept eating.
I took a drink of the coffee and then started to dig into breakfast. I was really glad that I just went grocery shopping and had food stocked in the house, because it would have looked really bad if all he was able to find was coffee and creamer.
“what are your planes for today?” I nonchalantly asked.
“I am going to head back to my place, get ready for the day and then head out to go check fence.” He said as he eyed me over his cup of coffee as he took a drink.
I gulped down the food that was in in my mouth and picked up my coffee.
“Sounds like tons of fun.” I sarcastically said
“o it is tons of fun.” He said with a chuckle.
“well ummm I appreciate you making breakfast you didn’t have to do that.” I said as I took a drink of my coffee.
“Well I figured that we would be hungry after last night.” After he said that I started to choke on my coffee. “Umm ya well we were up late. Umm can we just not tell Hattie what happened right now and keep this to ourselves??”
I slowly looked over to him. By the look on his face, I couldn’t tell what he was thinking and I started to get worried that I said the wrong thing.
“ya its probably best if we keep this on the down low for now.” He said
“good I am glad that you agree.”
All of a sudden my phone started to buzz next to me on the counter. I grabbed it and looked who could be messaging me this early in the morning. I saw that name on the screen and my stomach dropped. Preston. What in the world. I totally forgot about him after last night with Wes. My heart started to pound hard in my chest and I slowly opened up the text message.
Preston: I'm back in town, want to grab lunch today?
I didn’t know what to say so I just put my phone back down on the counter.
“is everything okay?” Wes asked
I whipped my head towards his voice, and I had no idea when he had gotten up and was starting to pick up the kitchen.
“umm ya everything’s good!”
He eyed me up and down and grabbed my plate that was sitting in front of me.
“O I will do the dishes since you cooked since you probably need to get going.” After I said that I felt so bad. I didn’t want him to leave but I needed some space to figure out what in the world was going on.
I could tell that he wasn’t convinced that I was fine but he didn’t push it. He put the dishes in the sink and headed for the chair in the living room. He grabbed his button-down shirt and slowly started to put it on. Watching him button up his shirt was memorizing and the thought of me unbuttoning and taking it off of him again, started to turn me back on. Once it was buttoned up and tucked into his jeans. He grabbed his hat off the coffee table and put it on. He turned around and looked at me. we both didn’t say anything right away.
I stood up and walked slowly over to him. I don’t know what came over me but I stood up on my tippy toes and kissed him without even thinking. He grabbed the back of my neck and pulled me in closer. His lips were so soft against mine and he was starting to get more aggressive. We both broke away to catch our breaths.
As he pulled away he started to rub his thumb against my jawline and stared at me.
“I will text you later this evening when I get back inside.” He said in a low gruff voice
“okay, please be safe out there today.”
He smiled at me and leaned down and placed a kiss on my forehead. He turned around and walked out the door.