Poison by Davis Leanne

Author:Davis, Leanne [Davis, Leanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense, Contemporary
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2013-03-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

John entered the kitchen. Cassie pretended to fidget with the pan she had eggs cooking in. She wouldn’t raise her eyes to meet his. She suddenly seemed intensely interested in her breakfast. The room was lit up with morning sun, bright and cheery, but Cassie didn’t seem to notice. She looked weary, and tense, and intent on giving him the cold shoulder.

“Cassie?” he said, coming to stand directly behind her.

She didn’t move or turn around. He put an arm casually around her waist and pulled her back against him. “How long are you going to ignore me?” he asked into her ear.

Last night she’d stayed on him a long while, limp and spent until he’d thought she’d fallen asleep. Then abruptly, she’d pulled herself off him and made her way to the bathroom. She’d come out fully dressed again in the flannel, baggy pajamas she’d worn to bed. Her hair had been brushed, and she looked as wholesome as a girl at a slumber party, not the satisfied, sexy woman she’d been ten minutes before, totally open and draped over him.

He had rolled up on his elbow and rested his head on his hand for support, watching her, letting her know he was wide awake, curious to see what she’d say. She avoided looking at him. She primly tucked herself back into bed and pulled the covers over herself, still not looking his way.

Who was she? The promiscuous teen and woman who’d managed to screw more men then he’d probably like to contemplate, or this girl here, prim and wholesome, awkward and unsure of herself. Come to think of it that’s how she’d been when they’d had sex way back when. John would bet Cassie could have sex just fine, it was intimacy that she had no idea what to do with. Add that to her celibacy the last six years, and he was left with her being like this.

He’d let her get away with not looking at him, or speaking to him. But as soon as she re-settled into bed he’d put an arm around her to bring her closer. He tucked her butt against his naked crotch, enjoying the sensation.

“Are you sore?”

“Yes,” she’d whispered adamantly. “And I want to go to sleep.”

“Sure,” he’d answered amicably, wondering just what she’d have to say when they did finally talk about this.

Now it was the next morning, and he was ready to talk.

“I’m not ignoring you.” She shrugged out of his embrace and walked to get a plate down, her back still to him.

“Are you just going to ignore that we—”

“Had sex? Yes. I am.”

“What the hell is your problem?”

“My problem is you have despised me for ten years, and nearly gritted your teeth every time you’ve had to see or talk to me for the last month. Then just because we’re in bed suddenly you can find it in you to be—” she paused faltering for what to say. “You’re friendly to me for one day and succeed into turning me back into everything I hate about myself.

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