Bent by Heinzer HB

Author:Heinzer, HB [Heinzer, HB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-01-20T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

If there was one good thing that came from everything that happened over the weekend, it was waking up in Micah's arms on Monday morning. It would have been even better if it hadn't been a ridiculous hour when the alarm on his cell phone started chirping. Julia rubbed her eyes and saw that, for the first time in the past two years, she was waking up at an hour that was so indecent that the sun wasn't even up.

"I swear, I might be forced to kick you out of my house," she grumbled as she curled into Micah's warmth.

A smile cracked on his face, "You'd kick me out?" he laughed, remembering the first morning he'd shown up to the house and had been torn apart for waking her up before nine.

"If you're going to get up this early every day, yes, I might." She wouldn't, of course, but she wondered if she should. She was far too comfortable feeling him occupy the other half of the bed. Once the alarm system was installed, Micah and Caleb would go home and she would once again feel the cold when she reached out in the middle of the night. The emptiness hadn't bothered her for the past few years, since her marriage had started to crumble. After only two nights spent sleeping next to Micah, the thought of waking up alone was crushing. This couldn't possibly be healthy.

"Hey, what's going on in there?" Micah asked, brushing the hair away from her face.

Julia huffed, "Nothing." She wasn't about to tell him everything that was going through her head.

"You're lying." He didn't push but she could tell he wanted to.

Why had she told him that they had to be one-hundred percent honest with each other at all times? That's right, because when she said that, she thought she was having the last conversation with him that she'd ever have. Now, she wished there was a way to tell him that there were times when not being ready to say something was okay. That not saying what was on her mind wasn't the same as lying.

She rolled onto her side, she felt every muscle of his glorious chest pressing against her through the thin cotton t-shirt she'd worn to bed. She giggled at the fact that he smelled like a combination of his natural smell and her mandarin mango bodywash.

He looked down at her through his droopy eyelids. "You confuse me, you know that?" His words were playful but she could hear that he was serious.

"What?" she asked trying to pull back from his strong embrace so she could better see his face.

His arms stayed tense, not allowing her to move. "One minute, you look like someone shot your puppy and the next minute you're laughing at me. What's that about?"

"You smell like a girl," she laughed. She was hoping the statement would deflect his attention from her sullen mood.

Strong fingers started sweetly stroking her back seconds before breaking into an assault on her ticklish sides, "So, you think I'm a girl now?" he joked.

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