Hot Summer Nights by Marie Jordan

Author:Marie, Jordan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-01T16:00:00+00:00

22

Maggie

“This is nice,” I murmur, snuggling my head against Bryant’s chest and holding him close. He has his arm around me, his fingers pressing against my back lovingly. The bedroom is dark, the ceiling fan above us the only sound. Its soft whirring noise is somehow relaxing. We have the window beside the bed open and we can hear the crickets singing outside. Bryant’s fingers are gently sifting through my hair and I can hear his steady heartbeat in his chest underneath my ear, and I feel safe…

“It is,” he agrees.

“What are you thinking?” I prompt him when he doesn’t say anything else.

Actually, if I think about it, Bryant has been quiet since my small blow up earlier. I worry I was too honest, that I said too much. He doesn’t seem mad, though. I don’t think he’s upset, either, because he’s still holding me close. I probably should have tried to keep control of myself. I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that it felt good to finally tell Bryant everything I’ve been holding in—well, part of what I was holding in.

It’s starting to occur to me that I have a tendency to hold myself away from the people I love and not tell them anything. I know that’s exactly what I’m doing when it comes to the lump they found in my breast. I’ve wanted to tell Bryant a million times, but I didn’t want to say anything out loud until I knew everything. I didn’t want to confide my fear and cry on his shoulder. But, then again, even that’s only part of it.

I’m afraid.

“I’ve been trying to figure out how that porn tape got in there,” he says, surprising me. I move so that I can perch my head under my hands on his chest—which makes it so I can see his face easier.

“I thought you didn’t want me to think about Titan and his weird tastes in porn,” I tease.

“I don’t. In fact, maybe it’d be better if you never said his name out loud again,” he grumps, making me giggle. “I’m being serious!”

“I know. That’s why it’s so cute.”

“You’re working up for a spanking, Maggie May,” Bryant warns—or promises. A shiver of pleasure moves through me, and from the sparkle in Bryant’s eyes, I know he doesn’t miss it. “Anyway, I had your mother drop that DVD here when she stocked the place.”

All signs of pleasure leave me as my body tenses and my eyes go wide.

“You did what?” I gasp.

“Yeah, so I’m thinking your mother is the reason porn-a-palooza is here,” he confesses.

I try to talk, but for a minute, I’m not able to form words. “You really are insane!” I finally squeak. “So hairy beaver movie was probably another one of my mother’s Easter egg surprises! Oh God, I’m scared at what else we’ll find.”

“It could be fun,” he says, with a half shrug, and now I know he is insane.

“If you, Bryant Beauregard Matthews, think for one minute that we will have fun with anything my mother brought into this house, you best think again.

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