Know You by Heart by Marcelo Tif

Author:Marcelo, Tif
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Montlake
Published: 2022-04-05T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Perhaps Eden had been a tad rash. Maybe she should have had a little more compassion for Chris. After all, she’d known about Chris’s nonskills in the water. Her high school swim and lifeguarding experience had put her at an advantage. Also, she had been born in water (true story)—her mother had been a crunchy woman who’d believed in water births in the eighties—and she took to water like the air she breathed.

But she couldn’t help but stick it to him.

What was the statute of limitations for teaching someone a lesson? Was it the same day, the next week? Six months? Was it still valid four and a half years later? Because hearing her husband say that she’d always had her freedom—especially now on the eve of their divorce, when she was going to emerge from a marriage losing so much—just hurt.

Not to say that her writing career was nothing. But she’d staked her entire life on it. And now, she was going to face it without the Pusos, without Chris. All saddled with writer’s block and a book that refused to be written.

And this was why right now, hours after they’d returned from their escapade, Eden was hiding out in the loft. It was well after dinner, which they’d taken in under general silence until the cameras had been turned off. Chris was downstairs, which was dimly lit by lamps, sleeping on the couch, while she was starfished on the comfortable mattress.

It had been months since she’d shared a bed with Chris. Honestly, it was one of the best things about being married but not really married—the bed was all hers. She could choose the type of mattress, the bedding, her position; there were no complaints.

Except for tonight.

Chris was groaning. He’d been groaning. He then twisted and moaned.

Eden knew that the couch was uncomfortable; it was the equivalent of sitting on one foam pillow over a plank of wood. Sleeping on it couldn’t have been great.

But she shut her eyes to block him out, as if that would shut down her hearing too. She would not feel sorry for him. She would turn off that empathetic part of her that always seemed to rear its ugly head.

Remember that he left you behind.

He didn’t mean to, though.

How can he even sleep when things aren’t right between you two?

It’s called working his butt off trying to keep up with you.

Now it was her turn to groan.

This required an intervention, a distraction.

Eden slipped her hand between the mattress and frame; she felt for her escape hatch. Her fingers crawled until she touched a smooth surface and pulled it out. Her phone.

Okay, so it wasn’t really her phone but a new temporary phone she’d picked up last week. Because did they really think that she would be able to get away from her work or that she couldn’t watch her feed? Or at the very least have access to the notes app so she could jot down a few words?

There were two text messages waiting for her.

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