Dana by Elizabeth SaFleur

Author:Elizabeth SaFleur [SaFleur, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elizabeth SaFleur LLC
Published: 2018-06-18T04:00:00+00:00

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The muted light of dawn rose behind the shades in Jackson’s bedroom. She’d slept like the dead, but then who wouldn’t after being taken countless times in the night by a man whose libido and endurance rivaled a porn star. Like an addict, however, she awoke needing more.

Her thigh muscles twitched, igniting the soreness between her legs. She glanced at the still-sleeping man responsible for her state, his arm thrown over his head like a king and breathing deeply. Slipping out of bed, she tried not to pull on the sheet, more not to wake him than from shyness. Modesty left the building sometime in the middle of the night between fucking number one and fucking number three. She thought the crude language without a flinch and rolled her eyes in hilarity at herself.

His bathroom was cold. Shivering a little, she did her business as quickly as possible, wanting to get back to a warm Jackson waiting for her in bed. After padding back to the bedroom, she grasped his shirt lying on the floor. Was there a thermostat somewhere? Maybe in the hallway? She peeked out the door leading to the hall.

“Leaving?”

She jumped nearly a foot at his bark. He sat up against the headboard, arms crossed over his chest as if annoyed.

“No, I just had to go to the bathroom, and …” She lifted his shirt. “You’ve got the temperature set to man mode. I was looking for the thermostat.” She snuggled back into bed with him. Her cheek met his hard bicep, his arms still crossed. The lines around his eyes were too deep, his shoulders too rigid. “What’s wrong, Jackson? Was I supposed to ask permission?” If so, asking to go pee was going to be a hard limit.

His eyes softened at her teasing and he brushed the hair off her forehead. “Don’t ever leave without saying goodbye in person.”

“Okay. Sir.” She gave him a half-smile.

He stared at her, then leaned back against the pillows and sighed.

“My fiancé walked out on me in the middle of the night.” His arm rose and encircled her.

“Oh, I’m sorry.”

“I heard the front door close. I thought maybe she was ill and running to the drug store. She’d complained earlier of a stomach ache. I wasn’t going to let her go alone. Followed her straight to a parking garage in Georgetown. She was meeting up with her ex-boyfriend who wasn’t an ex at all.” He shrugged. “Deep down I knew I was being played.”

She chewed on the impossible thought of Jackson being played, yet there he sat, face not so blank or devoid of emotion as he’d been yesterday when talking about his failed engagement. So, he wasn’t the impervious man she’d thought. If he’d wrestled with feeling unwanted and used to the level she had felt, she’d track down that cheating ex-fiancé and … do what? The worst punishment she could imagine would be to lose the man who now rubbed her shoulder with his broad palm.

“I won’t ever leave without saying goodbye,” she promised.

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