Secrets, Lies, and Online Dating: Three Generations Learn to Love Again (Women's Fiction) by Sylvia McDaniel

Author:Sylvia McDaniel [McDaniel, Sylvia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781942608158
Publisher: Virtual Bookseller
Published: 2016-05-31T06:00:00+00:00

Sunlight peaked into the room, just beginning its ascent in the sky. Marianne eased from the bed, trying not to wake Stuart. He lay curled on his side, sleeping. She just wanted to go home. They’d done the nasty several times during the night, and while the sex had been good, the sunlight had awakened her overactive brain. She needed some time to think.

She picked her clothes up and carried them into the living room with her, where she quickly dressed and called a taxi.

Ten minutes later, her cell phone rang, letting her know the taxi waited outside. She opened the door, and Stuart appeared in the hallway, a sheet wrapped around him.

“Hey, where are you going?”

She stopped, the situation awkward. “I need to get home. I have a paper due next week and chapters to read.”

He wrapped his arms around her and kissed her lips softly. “I had a great time last night.”

“Uh, me too,” she said, not really sure how she felt about last night. She liked Stuart. He was a nice guy and the sex had been good, but this morning her brain had overridden her heart and something wasn’t right.

The physical side seemed forced, not natural and easy. Something felt wrong.

“I’ll call you later,” he promised.

“Okay. I’ve got to go,” she said. He released her and she hurried out the door. Once she reached outside, she turned to wave at him as he watched her leave.

She opened the taxi door and climbed in the back. She gave the driver her address and leaned against the seat. Tears pricked the back of her eyelids.

Stuart was a great guy. He cared about his kids. He wanted a relationship with her, yet her heart wasn’t involved. Even after sex, she felt no emotional connection with him and that hurt. She wanted to love him. And yet there were no feelings, no stirring of passion, no can’t-live-without-him feelings. Only emptiness.

There had been no emotion. Only two bodies connecting and now she knew she couldn’t have sex just for the physical act itself. She craved the emotion, the bonding, and the intimacy of sharing her deepest emotions with another human being.

Sadness welled inside her and she realized she was going to break Stuart’s heart.

She wasn’t Paige and she knew she could never act like her friend. She decided right then that she would not have sex with another man until she was certain there was mutual emotion.

Body rubbing against body wasn’t enough. She needed more. With a sigh, she leaned back, knowing last night she’d learned something about herself that she could never lose sight of again.

She needed emotional intimacy with the physical act. She needed love, and even though she wanted to feel different, her heart wasn’t involved with Stuart.

The taxi stopped in front of Marianne’s house. Her car was sitting in the driveway, with the hood up. She frowned, paid the driver, and stepped out of the taxi.

She looked like hell. No make-up, the same clothes she had on yesterday, her hair a mess, and she had yet to brush her teeth.

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