A French Kiss in London by De Ross Melinda

Author:De Ross, Melinda [De Ross, Melinda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DeRoss Ink
Published: 2015-09-04T07:00:00+00:00

On the way home, none of them spoke a single word. Linda was only grateful because nobody else had been present during the scene that had taken place at the gallery’s entrance. It was late and dark, so Tony hadn’t managed to ruin her evening in front of the guests. But the words he’d said in front of Gerard burned into her soul. Shame and insecurity had erased all her newly found self-confidence.

When they reached her house, Gerard climbed out of the car and punched in the alarm code. The gate opened, then closed automatically once they drove past. He parked in front of the house. After a few moments he turned to her, while she sat with her head bent, nervously twisting the ring on her finger.

“That asshole was your ex, right?”

She nodded, without looking at him.

“And you really believed what the son of a bitch said? Or do you imagine I believed a single word of it?”

She moistened her lips and took a deep breath.

“The fact that all men follow me like…like he said, is not true. I’ve never even looked at another man while I was married to him. I’ve never sought nor wanted anyone’s attention. In spite of that, he always had bouts of jealousy with no real reasons. He made me all kinds of reproaches, among them being…What he said about my…my performances in bed,” she finished, fighting hard the tears of humiliation, her heart pierced by an almost unbearable pain.

He gazed at her for a long while in silence, in a strange way she couldn’t interpret. She found out later that he was simply marveling at her sweet naiveté, which made him feel proud, in the strange way only men can experience. He cupped her cheek gently and turned her head toward him, his eyes riveted on hers.

“Linda, I’m far from perfect. Before I met you, I’ve had many women of all kinds, from innocents to those far more experienced than I. But none of them was capable of making me love her. None of them was like you—so beautiful, so sweet, so attractive, so sensual…None of them managed to satisfy me, in bed or outside of it, the way you do.”

She looked away.

“You don’t have to try to restore my ego. Please, just drop it.”

“I’m not trying to do that. I’m only trying to make you see the truth. My opinion aside, if that imbecile was unhappy with you, do you think he would have still come after you? Do you think he would’ve been jealous, or cared if you attracted other men’s attention? He took advantage of your innocence to shatter your self-confidence, so you’d stay with him. So you would think you’re worth less, that he was doing you a favor by being beside you. This is the tactic used by these caricatures of so-called men,” he went on disgusted, and the fury threatening to be unleashed radiated from him. “I should have killed that fucking worm!”

She saw his fists and

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