Bound & Barbed by Samantha R. Goode

Author:Samantha R. Goode [Goode, Samantha R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Samantha R. Goode, LLC
Published: 2022-11-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Five

Evaline

After Wyott and Maddox left, I spent most of the day in my bedroom. I wasn’t sure why I’d wandered into the library to begin with. I was supposed to meet my aunt in there before dinner, but that wasn’t for hours. But after I’d woken up, I felt something pulling me to the room, urging me to go see what was in there. On some level I knew he’d be there. When he was, I couldn’t ignore the uptick in my heart.

After we’d had our fun with Maddox, I realized I desperately craved those interactions. I loved joking with the two of them, especially when it was at Maddox’s expense, because the way he always became so embarrassed was adorable. And after finding out what his preferred genre to read was, I couldn’t help but start seeing him in a different light.

Maybe he wasn’t just a ruthless Kova who loved a good fight and some witty banter. Maybe he had more to him than I really knew. And the more I thought about it, the more I realized that he’d been showing that side of him to me the entire time I’d known him, but my own preconceived notions about what Kova were, what men were, clouded that.

Maybe the problem wasn’t that he was a Kova, or that he was a stranger, maybe the problem was that once again I had walls up, as I had my entire life, which only became thicker when my father died. Maybe I needed to give him more of a chance. He was being a friend to me, I should do the same for him.

I fell asleep to those thoughts and awoke just in time to run downstairs to the library, once again, to meet my aunt.

She didn’t comment on my lazy day of sleeping when I turned the corner of the door to see her sitting in the same spot Wyott had been only hours earlier. Hopefully she chalked it up to my residual exhaustion from clearing the wreckage in the courtyard.

I moved around the table to join her, sitting down and seeing that the table was littered with swatches of fabric and a few dishes among other things I couldn’t see.

I couldn’t stop the groan that emitted from me in time.

Her eyes narrowed. “Shut it, Evaline.”

I did fight the eye roll that almost swept through me and begrudgingly sat beside her.

She spread her arms over the table. “Time to plan a wedding!”

“Aunt Therese, surely, you’re talented enough to plan the wedding without me?” I said sweetly and shrugged. “I’ll only slow you down.”

She just stared at me, calling my manipulation. “You’re the bride.” I winced at the word. “And part of that title means helping to plan the wedding.”

I just sighed in response.

We started with the swatches of fabric, of which she had countless. Different types, different colors. She asked for my opinions, as if she didn’t already have her mind made up. She asked what color scheme I wanted, but when I said pink and blue her mouth tightened and she countered.

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