Needing Her by Annabelle Love

Author:Annabelle Love [Love, Annabelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Love Lust Publishing
Published: 2018-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Hailey

Stepping silently down the hallway, I held my breath for fear of making even the slightest sound. My heart thundered in my ears, and I slowly emerged into the kitchen to be enveloped in soft, yellow light that radiated from above the stove. Rolling my bottom lip between my teeth, goosebumps washed my skin from the cold tiles beneath my feet, and I crossed my arms over my midsection.

Anthony snored lightly just beyond the threshold to the living room, and I passed under the archway to peek over the back of the sofa. The sight squeezed my heart, and my eyes locked onto his face as he frowned in his sleep. One arm propped up his head, and his ankles crossed over the armrest, but he didn’t look at all comfortable.

Softly poking his cheek, I tensed when Anthony jerked immediately into consciousness, and my breath caught in my throat as he sat up stiffly.

“What… Hailey… babe… what’s wrong? You? Antonya?” Raspy from sleep, Anthony’s tone gyrated against my eardrums. Shaking my head in surprised silence once his bleary gaze landed on me, I held my finger to my lips before gesturing him to follow.

Sweat slicked my palms and trickled down between my shoulder blades while Anthony pushed himself up with a grunt. Grabbing his hand, I led him through the kitchen and down the hallway, and my heart beat harder, more erratically, the closer we came to my bedroom. Ambling heavily behind me, he didn’t resist even as he let go of my hand to rub his eyes with his fists, and nervousness tickled my abdomen.

“What is it, Hailey? You slept until the asscrack of dawn.” Anthony’s tired question bounced around my bedroom, and I didn’t answer; I couldn’t think of anything to say that wouldn’t destroy the courage I’d spent the past 10 minutes building. Seating him at the end of my bed, I inhaled a slow, deep breath before forcing my anxiety-riddled muscles to move.

Big, familiar hands held my waist as I straddled his lap, and Anthony tensed while my fingers threaded through his hair. Blood beat against my eardrums, and I held his face to my chest to press my cheek to his crown of messy, black hair. Only our breathing filled the room, and his palms reached around me to slide up my back and hold tight.

“… I’m sorry, Anthony.” My soft, bare whisper was loud in the otherwise silent space, and Anthony’s lips grazed just above my breasts as he exhaled. “I’m sorry that you’ve been working so hard, and I didn’t appreciate it.”

“I don’t expect you to drop everything you’ve done just because I’m around, Hailey.” Hot breath flowed down between my breasts, and Anthony squeezed my torso as my eyelids fluttered shut to block out the gloom of early morning struggling to seep through my curtains. “I never meant to come across as not wanting you.”

“I thought… but—” My halting words were cut off by chapped, thin lips, and I automatically tightened my grip on Anthony’s scalp.

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