Marked By The Kings: A Dark Motorcycle Club Romance (From Manhattan, With Love Book 6) by Kelsie Calloway

Author:Kelsie Calloway [Calloway, Kelsie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-11T16:00:00+00:00

18

DANIELLE

I stare at myself in the mirror as if my reflection has changed since last night. I am still svelte, despite wishing that my stomach would start expanding. My face is still made up with products. My hair is freshly washed. I look the same as I did a week ago before I lost my virginity.

Cameron swore that she looked different after she had sex for the first time last summer. She said she lit up any room that she walked in. She was sexually awakened, and everyone could tell.

Esther didn’t feel like she looked different, but she said she felt different. She felt like a woman.

I look and feel the same. I was achy for a day, but the feeling faded quickly. The world had been turned on its head, but somehow, it kept spinning, and no one noticed but me. Even in the classroom, Holy didn’t look at me any differently.

Rosemary is the only one of my friends that knows who I lost my virginity to. I told Cameron and Esther it was some guy from the country club, and they swooned with excitement thinking that I’d had sex with a rich man. But Rose knows the truth.

She urges me to talk to Holy. “You want more, right?” She asks on the drive to school.

I want everything. I want the man, the wedding, the white picket fence, and the handful of babies I know we’ll pop out like bunnies. But I also want to go to college and figure out what I want to do with my life. I want a career that fulfills me. I want to be happy as a person, not because I’m married and have a family, but because I do something I love. “I think so, yeah.”

“Why are you hesitant?” She asks. Rose curls her feet under her and makes herself small. “Was it not what you expected?”

Being with Holy was everything I expected and more. It was the perfect blend of pleasure and romance. If we had gone to his place, lit some candles, and put on soft music, there would have been the added pressure of expectations. What we had at the overlook was exactly what I needed. “There’s just a lot to think about.” I nibble on my bottom lip before asking the one question I’ve only asked myself since that night. “What if I wasn’t good, Rose? What if that’s the reason nothing’s changed?” Giving a voice to my fears makes me feel sick. My stomach flips over, and a nervous fluttering fills my belly.

Rosemary makes a sympathetic sound before running her hand up and down my arm. “You told him you were a virgin. He shouldn’t have expected you to do like, hardcore porn stuff the first time. And I hear guys really like to be with virgins.”

“Maybe,” I add quietly. But I’m still afraid that the reason nothing has happened between Holy and me since that fateful night is because he wasn’t impressed.

I drift through the morning in a haze.

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