Bouncing Betty by Liliana Hart
Author:Liliana Hart [Hart, Liliana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 7th Press
Chapter 5
I didnât sleep that night.
Partly because of Graham. He continued to come to me during the night, and it felt like heâd always been in my life and in my bed. Iâd heard sayings about relationships that burned hot and fast and that they eventually fizzled, but Iâd never known anything else. It was the hot and fast that made life interesting. But with Graham, there was part of me that could imagine feeling his weight on the other side of the bed night after night. But I was hesitant to let myself get too hopeful.
I knew my relationship with James Walker had been wrong, but heâd made me feelâ¦special. He gave me attention and doted on me and showered me with gifts. He hung on to my every word like it was the best thing heâd ever heard. And our flame had burned so hot and fast I hadnât stopped to think what we might be lighting on fire along the way.
Iâd had interest from men from the time Iâd grown breasts, and Iâd learned to flirt and pretend I was interested and impressed by what I saw in the opposite sex. My mother had been an excellent teacher in that regard. Iâd perfected my techniques until Iâd found a man who caught my fancyâa man who knew a thing or twoânot a boy whoâd be fumbling around like a fool. Iâd enjoyed feeling specialâeven as short-lived as it had beenâbecause Iâd realized up to that point that Iâd never felt special. And worse, Iâd never believed I was special.
Growing up in Whiskey Bayou had been hard. Everything was lackingâfrom supplies to educationâand I guessed Iâd been lucky that I had a natural aptitude for numbers, otherwise I wouldnât have spent a lick of time in a schoolroom or with tutors like most of the other girls my age. That had been the only thing I could think of that my father had done right. And even that, heâd done for his own benefit. I made him money, so I was worth something to him.
When James Walker had come along, heâd made the other men Iâd let catch my eye seem like amateurs. But heâd ultimately been my destruction, and he hadnât even bothered to say goodbye when Iâd been so hastily put on the first ship to France.
I wasnât sure Iâd ever be able to feel anything for a man after James. Heâd broken my heart, and Iâd vowed to never give that much of myself to another man again. But where James had been smooth talk and cool sophistication, Henry Graham was rough and tumble and unpolished. His brain worked at a speed I felt matched my own and he was quick-witted and sharp-tongued. While James had fawned over me and treated me as something delicate, Graham treated me as an equal. It was an entirely different feeling. And my feelings for him were entirely different than theyâd been for James.
We hadnât known each other but for days, yet I felt as if Iâd known him forever.
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