Breaking the Reins by Juliana Haygert

Author:Juliana Haygert [Haygert, Juliana]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-08-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

I woke up to a beautiful breakfast table, with a huge bouquet of pink roses and an I’m-sorry card. Eric did all he could to compensate for the previous evening. He pulled out my chair for me, he served my food, he cleaned the kitchen, and he even made coffee.

After breakfast, we stopped by the hospital to see my father. As expected, he was still unconscious, and my mother was still seated in the same armchair I had last seen her. Hilary came a lot, but didn’t stay every minute of every hour like my mother did.

Eric and I had lunch at a fancy restaurant downtown. This new loving Eric was kind of fun, but I had to hold my tongue several times. I wanted to talk to him about his problem, but I knew that he was focused on the tournament and I would ruin it if I brought up that subject now. I had to stay by his side and wait until the tournament was over.

Around two in the afternoon, Eric drove us to the club for his next game.

Again, I sat in the VIP area while Eric went to meet with his teammates. I struggled against my good sense and lost. I scanned the area, but didn’t see Leo anywhere. In fact, I didn’t see any of his family members yet.

That was … strange.

Megan showed up with Blaire and Andrea. They sat beside me and included me in their gossip about the newest divorce—a known couple in the club. I pretended to care, so as not to be rude, but I couldn’t look at Megan and not think of Leo. Crap, I would be sick if they were actually going out together.

In the first ten minutes of the game, Eric scored two goals, showing everyone this would be an easy match.

After the game, he took me to his house to celebrate. He opened a bottle of champagne and we had a nice dinner with his mother. As usual, she excused herself right after dessert and went to her bedroom.

And Eric took me to his.

He closed the door and turned to me, pulling me to him and kissing me.

Since my big revelation, I felt so bad for kissing him. I tried remembering I still loved him, because even if I wasn’t in love with him, I did love him. He was a big part of my life, always would be. And because of his problems, I could see he would be for a long time, because I couldn’t just drop him like that. It wasn’t right. I wouldn’t want someone I loved dropping me when I needed him the most.

But, as much as kissing was tolerable, I couldn’t go further.

He started working on my dress’s zipper, and I pushed him away.

“What’s wrong?”

I walked to the other side of the bed. “I can’t.”

He looked at me as if I were speaking Mandarin. “What?”

“I can’t, Eric.”

He put a knee over the bed. “I don’t understand.” I groaned. Please, I didn’t want to spell it out.

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