Frayed by Christa Wick & Christa Wick

Author:Christa Wick & Christa Wick [Wick, C.M. & Wick, Christa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Christa Wick

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Trent

Trent sat and watched the slideshow playing on the monitors directly in front of him, the images fading in and out of view on the screen hitting him differently now for some reason.

The picture-perfect memories were ones he had rescued right after Reed received his divorce decree. His mouth shrugged in a fast ebbing smile as he remembered his first attempt to save those photos from being lost forever.

Reed had punched him. No warning, no regret.

Hell, it wasn’t the first, nor the last, nor the hardest punch the man would ever throw at Trent. But the force and Reed’s expression as Trent tried to dig the photo boxes out of the garbage on trash day had been enough for Trent to beat a temporary retreat, find the garbage truck and bribe the driver to stop at Reed’s house last and not run the compactor.

Their wedding photo appeared onscreen, Reed stiff in his tuxedo while Katherine was resplendent in the designer gown her parents had paid for. A bossy princess, Katherine was accustomed to getting what she wanted.

Reed had somehow fallen madly in love with her despite the conflict between his working class roots and the woman’s overbearing sense of entitlement.

Trent’s finger hovered over the ESCAPE key, ready to exit out of the slideshow of another man’s memories—another man’s life.

He still had nightmares about the day that, ultimately, was the beginning of the end of Reed’s marriage.

The damage to her body, the wait for emergency medical care and the infection that had followed left Katherine infertile.

She placed the blame on Reed, not on herself for insisting on coming when he had told her over and over it wasn’t safe, not on her rich daddy for pressuring a friend who worked for a senator on the Armed Services Committee, not that family friend who was willing to trade her safety and the life of her unborn child for the chance to keep a campaign donor happy.

No, she blamed her husband because he couldn’t bear the weight of a crumbling building on his back.

Even with the bitter accusations Katherine flung, Reed had loved her.

The idiot probably still loved her.

With a rough swallow, Trent hit the ESCAPE key.

The images disappeared from the monitor but lingered in his mind.

The experience had changed him, just as it had changed Stark and Reed. All three men came to view that moment as their biggest failure. As far as Trent knew, Reed hadn’t been with another woman since.

Collin had turned toward complete subordination of his occasional partners. He might as well have had “you can’t protect what you can’t control” tattooed on his dick.

Trent, the youngest of the three, had twisted Stark’s mantra into “you can’t love what you can control.”

The women he had sex with weren’t allowed to touch him, weren’t allowed to gaze into his eyes. Their mouths might wrap around his cock, he might press his lips to their pussies, but he never kissed them. And he never, ever, ever, put his cock where it might make a baby.

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