Reluctant Muse by Ann Vremont

Author:Ann Vremont [Vremont, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2006-10-17T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

They rested quietly on the floor after their climax, the coffee table pushed far from the couch so that Diaz could lay on his side next to Bryce, one arm cradling her head while the other arm lay gently across her chest as he stroked her shoulder. He wanted to talk, she knew that, but every time he opened his mouth, she tensed on purpose.

It wasn’t his fault he’d said it, and she didn’t have any intention of holding him to it—or any other promise he had made. That wouldn’t be fair, knowing what she knew. And she wouldn’t get pregnant, at least not without divine intervention—the cocktail of birth control pills her doctor prescribed suddenly accomplishing more than just controlling her monthly cycle down to a non-event.

“I know what you’re thinking,” Diaz blurted out at last. “That I want to take what I said back, or brush it off like I didn’t say it.”

Bryce turned to him and placed her palm softly against his chest. “No, that isn’t what I’m thinking,” she answered. “I think you meant to say it—all of it. I think you still mean it.”

“Then why do I get the feeling you were trying to shut me up?”

He rolled, forcing Bryce onto her back again and positioning himself over her. He cupped her cheek, his gaze studying her with an intensity that almost frightened her.

“Because I was,” she answered.

Diaz pulled back. Before he sat up and turned his back to her, she saw a stone mask settle over his face. “You mean, it’s because you didn’t want to hear it?”

“No.” She answered slowly, trying to choose her words very carefully and cursing Erato for putting her in a situation where she couldn’t even acknowledge what she most wanted. “It felt wonderful hearing you say it.”

She rolled onto one elbow and reached up, her fingertips brushing his shoulder blade. The muscle beneath twitched with his anger and she dropped her hand. “I just think the weekend’s novelty will wear off for you, and so it hurts to hear you say it even knowing you mean it right now.”

That was close enough to the truth, she thought, waiting tensely for him to respond. She didn’t have to tell him she knew without a doubt that it would wear off. She could sense he was growing angrier, her answer only making things worse. This time, when she placed her hand against his back, he jerked entirely away from her.

“So you think I’m a shallow fuck, is that it?” he asked. He kept his back to her, his whole body wound tight.

Bryce sat up, placed her back to the couch and pulled her legs in close to her body. Damn, if Erato was going to give her words for the story, why couldn’t she have given her words for this? “I think what I’m saying is that you have a little over a day and a half to change my world view.”

Well, that shocked him, she thought as he turned to look at her, his gaze clouded with confusion.

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