A Reason to Sing by Michelle Lindo-Rice

Author:Michelle Lindo-Rice
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction, friendship, women, multicultural, family, faith, black, christian, africanamerican
Publisher: Michelle Lindo-Rice

Ch. 19

She shared his bed. Every night. Ryan insisted on it. He didn’t touch her and slept with his back turned, but he was there. Megan stared up at the ceiling with tears in her eyes. How was this her life? She couldn’t go another three hundred plus days with this man.

She had nixed the lingerie idea on their wedding night. Instead, Megan had gone to sleep dressed in her wedding gown with Cooper tucked in her arms. She hadn’t trusted Ryan to help her but had called Karlie to assist her out of her dress the next morning. Fortunately, Karlie hadn’t asked any questions. The younger woman had hugged her and left as quickly as she had come to Megan’s rescue.

The first few days of their marriage, Megan had protested the whole sharing of the bed thing by changing rooms, but Ryan had a key to every door in the house. She had awakened the next morning to find him in the bed. She then slept on the couch. How that man fit his six-foot-one frame on the couch was beyond her. He lay there, close to falling and gripping the edge, fast asleep. Their silent war continued. Megan next tried the master tub. She knew she would be sore, but she wanted nothing to do with Ryan, but Ryan had slept in a sitting position in the tub. Megan had never met a more determined man. Megan would have left and gone to a shelter if she didn’t have Cooper.

“I don’t want you in my bed!” she had raged, shaking her fists.

He folded his arms. “I won’t sleep alone.”

“I don’t want you here.”

“I won’t sleep alone.”

Megan had brought Cooper into the mix. His little body contorted between them. Ryan would awaken with a little foot in his face. Megan’s back was sore from Cooper’s butt pressed against her. Still, she hadn’t chased Ryan from her bed. In the end, Megan had relented. Cooper slept in his own bed. Her son was an acrobat in his sleep and she needed her rest.

It irritated her how well she slept next to the dragon. Every night she waged war with her eyelids, but lost every time. Megan had awakened twice to Ryan’s arms around her midriff. Now she slept with her back straight, less than an inch from falling off the bed.

Their breakfasts were tense affairs. Ryan would attempt to engage her in small talk, and she would provide one-word answers. Her stomach relaxed only when he walked out the door and she heard the Lincoln’s door slam. Megan would then hum a tune and get Cooper ready for the day. She had four hours to herself until Ryan stopped in for lunch.

He made a point to come home and play with Cooper. Megan gritted her teeth because she knew Ryan did this to annoy her. He knew she didn’t want him building a relationship with her son, but he showered Cooper with attention anyway. Cooper had wailed, kicked, and screamed until Megan’s ears rang the first day she snatched him out of Ryan’s arms.

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