Ride With Me (Paige and Jace) novel Chapter 12

CHAPTER 10-1

Stared at the apartment door for several seconds. Jace hadn’t knocked loudly asnd he hadn’t called my phone.

He hadn’t tried forcing his way into a conversation I wasn’t ready to have.

He’d simply knocked once, quietly spoken my name and waited.

That alone told me more about him than anything we’d discussed over the past week.

I wiped my face with the sleeve of my shirt before unlocking the door and Jace stood in the

hallway holding two takeaway coffee cups.

“I guess.” He said as I looked from him to the cups.

“You guessed what?” I asked.

“That coffee might be safer than flowers.” He said and a laugh escaped before I could stop it.

“You remember Tyler.” I said.

“It’s hard not to.” He said and I stepped aside.

“You’d better come in before the coffee gets cold.” I said.

He walked inside taking a slow look around the apartment without making it obvious. It wasn’t

much to see. A small lounge room, a worn sofa, a second hand dining table, an old bookshelf and a

kitchen barely large enough for one person.

Everything was clean and everything had a purpose and Jace handed me one of the coffees.

“I wasn’t sure how you take it.” He said.

“Black.” I said and he smiled faintly.

“I guessed right.” He said.

“You gamble often?” I asked.

“Only when the odds look good.” He said.

I sat on the sofa while he chose the old armchair opposite me.

For several minutes neither of us spoke and surprisingly, the silence wasn’t awkward.

It was…comfortable. So I wrapped both hands around the warm cup.

“I suppose you came to make sure I hadn’t thrown myself dramatically off the balcony.” I said.

“I figured you’d land on the workshop roof.” He said and I nodded thoughtfully.

That would ruin the gutters.” I said.

“I was think more about you.” He said.

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