Liberating Mr. Gable - The Complete Collection: A Billionaire Romance by Tuesday Embers & Mary E. Twomey

Author:Tuesday Embers & Mary E. Twomey [Embers, Tuesday]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2014-05-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Hiding in Bed

Anson decided Etta had slept long enough, and went to her room to wake her. “Baby? It’s time to get up.”

Etta turned on his third attempt to gently wake her and shook her head. Her face was sullen and, despite her record sleeping time, she had bags under her eyes.

“You don’t have to get out of bed, but you have to eat something. At least sit up and talk to me for a minute. I have no idea what’s going on.”

Etta nodded when she realized she had to use the bathroom. When she made her way back to the bed, she avoided Anson’s concern and covered herself with the comforter again.

“Etta, please.”

Chloe appeared in the doorway and marched past a forlorn Anson. “What happened? Is it Cooper? What’d he do this time?”

Etta found her voice and spoke quietly. “Cooper’s not allowed in the house until I leave for LA.”

Anson postured. “What did he do?”

“Nothing. It’s just a new rule.”

Anson had many more questions, but Chloe had only one. “He kissed you again, didn’t he?”

When Etta nodded, Anson growled and stalked out of the room, barreling back in with his leather jacket and boots on. “Chloe, how do I get to his place?”

Chloe shook her head. “As much as I’d love to see you beat on Coop for this, you’ll get yourself killed before you even get there. You don’t know how to drive up here. Etta’s truck’s a beast that needs a competent lion tamer.”

This did not seem like reasonable logic for Anson. “Fine. I’ll walk there. Which way?”

Chloe rolled her eyes. “Oh, brother. You’ll do no such thing. You’ll stay here and do what she wants. If Coop shows up, don’t let him in. Can you handle that? I’ll deal with Cooper.”

“Chloe, I –”

“Leave him to me. It’s more complicated than giving him a black eye to settle things. Cooper’s been in love with Etta his whole life. That’s not gonna go away just because you beat it out of him.” Chloe turned to Etta. “He’s kissed you before. What’s got you so upset now?”

Etta’s calm left her, and her voice turned mournful. “I told him to stop, and he didn’t! I tried to push him away, but he just kept kissing me! Why would he do that? I couldn’t get out! He knows better than to corner me like that! I pushed him away so many times, but he backed me against the wall and just kept trying!”

Chloe asked her friend a few more prodding questions to extract the entire ordeal, ignoring Anson shifting back and forth from fuming to pallid.

Etta calmed a bit when Chloe sat on the bed and smoothed her hair back from her face. “So can I please just lie in bed for a while? I just lost one of my best friends. I can’t be normal right now.”

“That’s fine. You chill in here, and I’ll deal with Cooper. He won’t bother you, and you won’t see him before you leave.” She sighed, saddened by her cousin’s actions.

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