Blissfully Undone by Red Phoenix Read Free Book Online Page B

It’s been hell waiting out the storm.” He brushed Jenny’s midnight hair away from her face. “All I could think of was you freezing up here in the cabin, but I should have known better with that Cherokee blood running in your veins. You’re a survivor through and through.” Ryan kissed her on the lips, but Jenny couldn’t return the kiss. He cocked his head, his emerald eyes filled with renewed concern. “What’s wrong, Jen?”
    She looked back over at Dan, unsure if she should say something.
    Dan cleared his throat. “Kelly. Ryan. There is something you should know.”
    Kelly stared at him, then turned and glared. Her look of hatred burned into Jenny’s soul. “How… could… you!” she howled.
    Ryan was still clueless, his worry overshadowing his normally sharp deductive skills. “How could she what?”
    Dan spoke up. “Ryan, we’re in love. It wasn’t planned, it just happened.”
    Ryan shook his head. “What the…”
    “You fucking bitch!” Kelly screeched, lunging at her. Dan stood in the way to prevent any contact from being made.
    Jenny cringed and backed away from her now ex-best friend. She understood this was the price she had to pay for loving Dan and she found it hurt too much. “Kelly, I didn’t mean to. I’m sorry!”
    “Don’t give me that shit. You are my best friend, Jenny. No. You were my best friend!” Kelly turned back on Dan and started hitting him viciously on the chest. “You motherfucker! How could you do this to me?” Dan stood there and took her blows without defending himself. It appeared he was taking her punishment gratefully, as if he wanted Kelly to hit him.
    Ryan did not react the same way. He looked at Jenny with tears in his eyes. “It was a stupid fling. This was all a mistake. I don’t believe for a second that you love him. Let me take you home and we can work this out.” Jenny had expected him to fly off the handle; instead, he was trying to fix it. It was one of Ryan’s most endearing qualities.
    “Oh, Rye,” she whimpered. She looked at the love reflected in his eyes and felt a wave of regret. He took her hand and led her out of the cabin towards his car. Jenny resisted at first, but part of her wanted to run away from the painful encounter.
    “Don’t,” Dan called out. She looked back, drawn to him like a magnet. His blond hair covered his eyes, but he didn’t sweep it back as he waited for her decision. “Don’t leave me, Jenny.” Her heart contracted. Although her love for him was new, it was intense—unlike anything she’d felt before. Jenny stopped in her tracks, ready to fight for him… until she looked into the eyes of her best friend.
    The hate radiating from Kelly was palpable. “Get out of here, bitch!” she snarled. Jenny could see the severe pain her actions had caused etched in Kelly’s face and it shattered her resolve to stay.
    Ryan pulled on her arm. She looked one last time at Dan, tears welling up in her eyes. She couldn’t do it. She couldn’t hurt them any more than she already had. Jenny reluctantly followed Ryan out of the cabin and out of Dan’s life.
    This love was doomed from the start… Jenny thought, as she stared out the window of the car while they drove away. Smoke drifted up out of the chimney, beckoning her to come back—to revel in the warmth she had enjoyed alone in the snowbound cabin with Dan.
    Ryan pulled Jenny out of her daze with a pointed question. “I have to know. Did you really fuck Dan?”
    As bad as it was, she was determined not to make it worse by lying. “We did everything but traditional fucking.”
    Ryan turned his head towards her with a raised eyebrow. “You kept your pussy away from him?”
    She blushed. How much was too much information? She added softly, “He took me anally, Rye.”
    Jenny didn’t miss the shudder when he replied, “Dan did you that way? I guess when you’re desperate…”
    She ignored the feeling of rejection his shudder wrought. Ryan was grossed-out