You Drive Me Crazy novel · Chapter 6 of 24

Chapter 6: Wet Concrete

Cade drove me back to Mooresville without saying a word.

I stared out the window at the pines and the gray rain starting on the glass.

"You owe me nothing," I said at the gate.

"I'll decide that."

"You don't get to."

"Mara." He parked and killed the engine. "I'm not going to argue in a truck."

"Then don't."

I got out into the rain and walked into the garage.

I took the cold chisel off the bench and attacked a rusted floor-pan seam.

Amos had taken Eli to town for a movie and then a sleepover on the pull-out couch.

Amos had been very firm about it and very red in the face.

So the whole garage was ours, and the rain drummed on the roof.

I worked until my arms burned.

I heard the side door roll down.

I heard his boots on the concrete.

He stopped behind me and did not touch me.

"You can hit something else," Cade said. "I won't mind."

"I'm not angry at you."

"You're a terrible liar."

I threw the chisel down, and it rang off the floor.

I spun around.

He stood close with his wet shirt stuck to his chest and rain in his hair.

His gray eyes were steady, and he looked at me the way he had looked at the finish line.

"I'm angry at everything," I said. "I'm angry that she bought my father's shop. I'm angry that you said it in front of those men."

"Said what?"

"That you owed me."

"I do."

"For what?"

"For the call I didn't make that morning. For letting you walk out of that motorhome thinking you were the one who'd done something wrong."

My breath caught.

"I haven't forgiven you."

"I know."

"I'm not going to."

"Okay."

"This isn't forgiveness."

"Okay," Cade said. "What is it?"

I grabbed his collar and pulled his mouth down to mine.

He met me with a sound from deep in his chest, and his hands closed on my hips and lifted me onto the fender of the Mustang.

The cold metal bit through my coverall, and I did not care.

I yanked his shirt over his head.

He was harder than I remembered, with a new scar across his ribs and the same warm skin underneath.

I put my mouth on his shoulder and bit down.

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