Deny Me by Ella Sheridan

Author:Ella Sheridan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic suspense, military romance, contemporary romance
Publisher: Ella Sheridan
Published: 2020-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Charlotte slid the champagne silk from its padded hanger and draped it carefully over her bed. The intensity of her mother’s stare from the opposite side of the bed made her even more jittery than she already was, but there was nothing she could do about it. She had a charity event to get ready for.

“I don’t think this is safe,” her mom repeated for maybe the tenth time since their meeting last night with Dain and his team.

“I know, Mom.” Charlotte wasn’t sure how she felt about the plan either—except scared, definitely—but Dain was the expert. If he thought this was the best chance they had of catching West and the person feeding him information, she had no choice but to go with it.

Or maybe you just want the chance to be alone with King again. Anything for an excuse.

Yes, her conscience was as bad as her mother right now. Was there anyone not giving her a hard time at this point?

Becky. Elliot. Saint, if she didn’t count his teasing as a hard time. That was about it.

“I don’t trust King to keep you safe,” Mom said.

“I know.” She pulled the edges of her robe tighter, refusing to give in to the urge to retreat to the nearby bathroom and never come out again. If only fixing what was wrong between her family and King—or heck, even her and King—was that simple. “Mom…”

“You know I’m right.”

“No, I don’t know any such thing.”

“Well, I do!” Her mother seemed to surprise herself with the force of her words. Lips that had once been full with youth now pressed hard together, trying to keep her argument inside. Charlotte prayed she’d succeed, but the hope of that felt slim. There was too much going on, too much pressing at them from all sides; her parents could only be expected to put up with so much before they let their true feelings loose.

“Mom.” Charlotte cleared her throat. If she didn’t put her foot down now, they would never work their way past this, and they had to, no matter how much easier it would be to ignore it. “Mom, you know I love you and Dad, and I would never want to disappoint you.”

“But?”

“But…” She tried in vain to ease her death grip on the robe’s lapel. “What I choose to believe about King or do with him is my business. I need the two of you to understand that.”

“So you are getting back with him?”

“I—” How to answer that? It wasn’t her decision alone, but if it was? “There is too much going on to decide something like that, but pressure from you and Dad is not going to make things go your way. I have to make that call when the time comes. But now is not that time.”

Her mom opened her mouth, probably to argue, but a knock at the door forestalled her.

“Charlotte, about ready?”

Elliot. Charlotte moved back to the bed and dropped her robe. “Just a minute!”

Five minutes later

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