I Married a Master by Melanie Marchande

Author:Melanie Marchande [Marchande, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 22594051
Published: 2014-09-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Ben

It didn't take as long as I'd feared to get her trundled into bed, with a bottle of water and ibuprofen waiting for her on the nightstand. She was sleepy and pliant by the time we got home. Her eyes shone with trust, which I hadn't earned, but would never dare betray.

Of course, I had my limits. I let her kiss me goodnight. Once. On the lips, but no tongue.

And once I was locked in my own bedroom, I didn't even bother to shuck off my jacket or loosen my tie before I sought the relief my body so desperately craved. My clothes had felt like a prison all night, chafing against my skin, my collar too tight, and my jacket might as well have been asylum-issue. But now, with my back against the door, all I did was unzip with shaking hands and bring myself off with a few vicious strokes.

It was embarrassingly quick, even considering the ordeal I'd just been through.

Ordeal. All I did was spend the evening in the company of an attractive woman. I was thinking about it like I'd been through a war. What the hell happened to me? When did I become such a pathetic sex fiend?

I couldn't let this happen again. Another night like this, and I'd actually lose my mind. It was like junior high all over again. I had no self-control, and no ability to think beyond the various ways in which my body craved to connect with hers.

As if that wasn't enough to make me feel like a waste of space, there was the way she reacted to me. And the fact that it just felt right. Of course she liked me. Of course she wanted me. That was the way it should be.

Look, it's not like I was some caveman, but I grew up watching the same movies everybody else did. Work hard, get smart, triumph over those who want to drag you down, and you win a girl.

Every. Damn. Time.

Her wants and needs, hell, her personality, didn't even seem to enter into the equation. She was always just sort of wandering around the sidelines with a vacant smile on her face, waiting for more poor schmuck to discover that the power was inside him all along. And then, boom, the bra and panties went flying off.

I knew the real world didn't work that way, but nobody ever bothered to explain how it did work. So I guess when I met Daria, and she seemed to already like me for some inexplicable reason, I figured my work was done. I didn't have to keep working to hold her interest; I'd won her already.

But you should know better, Chase! You're a God damn billionaire scientist - what's wrong with you?

Hell, how should I know? The smartest men in the world turn stupid when women are involved. It's a proven fact. What chance did I have?

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