3 Seconds (Time for Love Book 6) Read Free Page B

go here,” I
said, stating the obvious. “I’m on my last semester.”
    “I thought you
were a musician,” she stated, confusion and shock apparent on her
face.
    “I am, but I’m
also a chef … or at least, I’m going to be. Music and food are my
two passions.”
    She nodded, as
if that made sense. For the first time I wondered if I’d found
someone who would get me . Brendan the musician and cook, not
just the lead singer of Whiskey Heat. Someone who would help fuel
my passions and understand my need for both creative outlets.
    I took a few
steps toward her, holding my hand out as if I were approaching a
frightened animal. I brought my palm to her cheek, and smiled when
she instinctively leaned into it and closed her eyes.
    “I was hoping
I’d see you again,” I said softly, my lips a breath away from hers.
But before I could touch her sweetness, her eyes flew open and she
used both hands to push me back.
    “We can’t do
this,” she said hurriedly, her voice low so no one would overhear.
“I didn’t know … I had no idea that you were one of my students …
How could I?” I wasn’t sure if she was really talking to me, or
thinking out loud, so I remained silent. “You were just supposed to
be a fling,” Ouch . “A younger, very hot guy, who would
release the tension that’s been building for the last two years,
three months, and twenty-one days … We weren’t supposed to see each
other again, and you sure as hell weren’t supposed to show up in my
class.”
    I tried to
process everything she’d said, but, being a guy, one thing stayed
at the forefront of my mind.
    “You hadn’t had
sex in over two years?”
    The look she
shot me told me I was missing the point, so I focused on the other
things she said. She never wanted to see me again. My chest
hurt.
    I was the king
of love ‘em and leave ‘em , so why did her statement cause me
pain?
    I moved in
closer, crowding her, and when she looked at up at me warily I
said, “I hope I relieved that tension. I’d be happy to do it again anytime , Freckles. All you have to do is call.”
    I picked up her
phone from the desk and programed my number.
    “Brendan,” she
called when I turned to leave. “It’s against school policy. No one
can know what we did, even if it was by accident … and it can never
happen again.”
    Her flash of
regret was so quick, I’m not sure if she even realized it happened.
I did. I shot her my most confident grin and a wink.
    “No one has to
know, Bronagh … I’m good at keeping secrets.” I nodded to the phone
she now held in her hand. “Call me.”

 

    Chapter Four ~
Bronagh
     
    After the day
I’d had, I couldn’t wait for the weekend and Bellini’s, I needed my
girls and some gin … stat!
    “Okay, Bronagh,
what’s the big emergency?” my friend Ming asked when we were all
settled in the corner booth of mine and my da’s pub. “Not that I’m
not always up for drinks, but you made it sound like you’d just
found out that Henry Cavill is gay, and all hope for your future
together was lost.”
    I smiled
half-heartedly at her joke, but my mind was too boggled to fully
appreciate her quick wit.
    I figured it
was best to just rip the Band-Aide off quickly and get straight to
the part where they agreed that I was right, and needed to forget
that I’d ever seen Brendan naked.
    As if that could ever happen…
    “I went home
with that lead singer the other night, had fan-freaking-tastic sex,
and it turns out he’s one of my students at the culinary school.”
That said, I let out a long breath, then picked up my dirty martini
and took a swift drink.
    “Yay!” Cass,
the third member of our trio, shrieked, startling me with her
exuberance.
    I gave her the
stink eye over my glass.
    “What part of
what I just said made you think, ‘Yay!’ was an appropriate
response?” I asked.
    Cass looked at
me like I was a moron.
    “Um, the part
where you went home with that stud from the bar, and finally
used your