Page 21 of Wild Rush Of Love
Except that argument hadn’t stopped him from packing a bag and driving five hundred miles to Baltimore.
No matter how much of a bastard being with her made him, he wouldn’t—couldn’t—walk away.
Chapter Ten
Reena’s handshook as she attempted to get the key in her front door.
Rush was here.
God, he washere.
In Baltimore.
At her house.
He was going tostayat her house.
The key slipped along her damp palm and elephants stampeded in her chest. It was a miracle she managed to unlock the door and step inside without dropping the keys or tripping over the threshold.
“You have a choice of two rooms. One faces the street, the other overlooks the backyard.” Her words quivered and in an effort to mask her nervousness, Reena rambled as she led the way into the house. “The street view isn’t as nice as the yard one in my opinion, but the front room is bigger and has its own bathroom. The back room has a shared bathroom, I’m afraid. Not good if you want privacy.”
“Oh. You have other guests?”
“What?” Glancing over her shoulder, she saw Rush grinning at her from the doorway, and frowned. “No, it’s just me.”
“And me.”
Reena’s skin prickled. “Y-yes. And you.”
“You and me.”
Reena nodded. “Yep. Just us. No one else.” Oh god, they were going to be alone in her house for days. Heat washed over her. Muscles clenched and her body trembled with an unmistakable shudder of lust. Her breath stuttered and her voice wobbled when she said, “Which room—”
“Why don’t we go out?”
“Out?” Reena stood in the foyer, a little confused by Rush’s question and his failure to move more than a foot inside her house. “But we just got here.”
His mouth tipped up on one side in that lopsided smirk she loved, making her tummy dip.
Was it bad that all she could think about was kissing that mouth?
“I know but I’m hungry.”
Hadn’t he just eaten at Mary’s?
“Mary’s delicious scones reminded me how empty my stomach is. I’ve spent hours on the road and other than a pack of gum, a bag of chips, and a gallon of soda, I haven’t had anything substantial in my belly since last night.”
Unable to pull her gaze away from his mouth, Reena watched his lips move with each word and shivered with the flash of memory of that sexy mouth on hers. She licked her own lips while heat zipped through her, tightened her core, and filled her face.
Great, she probably looked like a human beetroot. Not a good look when you planned to seduce a man.
Wait. His words finally penetrated her scandalous thoughts.
“Last night?” She hadn’t bothered to ask how he’d gotten here. It never occurred to her that he would drive hundreds of miles.
When she’d visited the lodge nestled deep in the Adirondack Mountains, she’d flown to Albany then rented a car to travel the final distance. That road trip had taken three hours. The lodge to Baltimore had to be half a day’s drive at least.
“You drove all night?”
