Meet the New Dawn by Rosanne Bittner

Author:Rosanne Bittner [Bittner, Rosanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Published: 2015-01-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Charles Garvey paced in his study as LeeAnn nervously brought him his coffee. He’d been gloomy all evening, and she hoped he would not take it out on her later. Often when he was angry, the emotion was expressed in the brutal way he made love to her, as though wanting to hurt her, and she suspected that if she did not cooperate, he would truly beat her. She wondered at how he could have been so charming before marriage, and so cruel afterward. He often bragged that she bored him at times, and that he preferred the whores he often visited to his own wife, unable to understand why she was not more responsive.

LeeAnn didn’t care anymore how often he visited the whores. It only meant he would leave her alone, and that was just fine. She had paid a dear price for luxuries and elegance and social importance, and she well knew it. But she had no way out now. She would not disgrace herself and cause a scandal by asking for a divorce, and she told herself that when Charles Garvey was a little older and more settled, when he accomplished all his plans in life, he would mellow. But an inner instinct told her this man would go from bad to worse. There was something maniacal about him, a deep evil that did not often surface but was there nonetheless—something that bordered on insanity.

She handed him the coffee, and he abruptly slammed a hand against the cup, sending it flying. LeeAnn jumped and backed away.

“Bring me some bourbon!” he growled. “I don’t want that useless black brew tonight!”

She walked on shaking legs to a table where various liquors were kept. She sniffed at a few, finding the bourbon. Liquor was something she was learning more about. Charles kept much more around than the common whiskey her father drank occasionally. Her husband drank everything—and often. And to soothe her own nerves and shattered romance, LeeAnn had done her own share of drinking lately. She poured his bourbon, then set up a second glass, pouring her own drink.

“What’s wrong, Charles?” she asked, handing him his drink. She decided she had best be extra nice to him. Maybe she could calm him down and he would at least not hit her or be cruel to her in bed.

He took the drink, studying her as he swallowed it quickly. “I’ll tell you what’s wrong!” he growled, tossing the glass into a fireplace. “Somehow the goddamned Army got its nose into West Enterprises and closed the place down!”

She frowned. “What is West Enterprises?”

He walked over to the table, picking up the bourbon and drinking it straight out of the bottle. He lowered the bottle, pacing again, his face dark with rage. “West Enterprises was one of my best sources of income,” he fumed. “It’s in St. Louis. I owned it, but it’s set up so that I am not even directly connected. The government won’t get me for this one!” He took another swallow.

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