Quarantales: The Complete Contemporary Romance Box Set by Taylor Theodora

Author:Taylor, Theodora
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rom Tell That
Published: 2020-12-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

On that command, all three men leave, closing the door behind them.

And I’m left there in the nice one’s big red coat, shivering even though it’s warm.

What if they don’t take my offer?

Or even worse—what if they report me to the police?

Tommy’s a cop and a police sergeant at that. If I show up on some station’s arrest report, he’ll track me down and then….

I flinch, remembering the closed fist he slammed into my chest after he found the birth control pills I’d kept hidden in my tampon box.

Tommy had hit me for no real reason before, but this time he had the right to be mad. We’d been living together for almost two years, and I’d never gone off birth control like I said I would when he proposed.

I hadn’t meant to lie to him for so long. I guess I’d been waiting to feel more certain about our relationship. Waiting, as if that warm, secure feeling I’d always dreamed of was a train, due any day now into my station.

But that train had never arrived. And when Tommy found out I had only been pretending to be off birth control, he completely lost it.

He always made sure not to touch my face when he hit me, but he must have done something to knock me unconscious this time. Or maybe I’d just passed out from the pain. Whatever the reason, I’d woken up the next morning battered and bruised. And though nothing was broken, I found it hard to breathe.

Bruised ribs, I figured out later via the internet.

Tommy had come home from his shift that night, his eyes full of tears and apologies. He’d tended to me and ordered us Chinese food, even though he didn’t like it. After dinner, he put me in a bath and helped me get dressed in one of the lacy camisoles he’d brought me.

Then he kissed me gently and…I guess you could call what happened after that, making love. It had been so long since we had sex, it was hard to tell what was love and what was apology.

Tommy was too stressed out a lot of times to make love. Unlike me, he had a job. He was usually drained by the end of the worked day, and on weekends, he just wanted to veg and watch sports. If I pressed him too much for sex, he’d turned me down. Or say things like, “That’s what I get for proposing to such a slut.”

I hated it when he called me that.

Sometimes Tommy acted like I was the greatest thing that ever happened to him. He loved taking me to parties and dinners and pretty much anywhere he could show me off to his friends. In public, he kept an arm around my waist, made sure my drink cup was always full and played the part of the devoted boyfriend. In public, he said and did all the right things.

That was why I’d been so excited when he dropped down to

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