Skipping Midnight (Desperately Ever After Book 3) by Laura Kenyon

Author:Laura Kenyon [Kenyon, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Laura Kenyon
Published: 2016-11-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

DAWN

Sugar Showers sat between a shuttered computer repair shop and a laundromat in Hobbs Hill, a decidedly unhip neighborhood halfway between the Regian Woods and the northern coast of the kingdom, after the East River bent horizontal and before it officially dumped into the sea. It was squat, drab, and downright desolate. And on this drizzly, dreary morning, Dawn wondered why she’d once told Hunter not to let Tirion Enterprises barge in and “mess with it.”

“Right here,” she said, scooting to the edge of her seat and pointing to a narrow storefront with a black awning bearing bubbly gold letters.

“Got it,” Christophe sang, flipping on his blinker despite the empty street and pulling into a spot a few doors up. “Strange place for a latte. Who are you meeting again?”

“Just a friend,” Dawn said while unbuckling her seatbelt. Then she smiled. Christophe was a Selladórean native and had worked for her father once upon a time. He was the only royal driver she trusted to keep her excursion a secret—not that Hunter seemed to care how she spent her time anyway.

For going on five days now, she’d seen her husband more on the news than in real life. He was always there: posing, smiling, shaking hands. No one would ever suspect that his heart was in pieces and his marriage threatened to follow. Were it not for a few miniscule signs—a drawer left slightly ajar, a whiskey tumbler in the sink, the toilet paper torn outside of the perforation—she would have feared he’d already gone.

She’d contemplated telling him about Elmina, and the triad, and all the things she’d intended to tell him when she returned from the hospital early Saturday morning—floating on air because she’d heaved the weight of the past off her shoulders. But the full story would have included Davin’s connection to Angus Kane and the ramifications that had on her “awakening” via Hunter’s lips. It would have included her suspicion that Hunter wasn’t one in a million so much as he was one in the right place at the right time. Or even worse, that he was handpicked to be there not by fate or the universe, but by Angus.

So she didn’t tell him. She couldn’t bear to watch any more affection drain from the eyes that once held so much. It was hard enough watching his smile fall over and over again, every time he walked through the door and saw her there. She knew she deserved to be punished. She’d betrayed his trust on a monumental scale. But she was finding it harder and harder to continue pasting on a positive attitude with no signs that it mattered at all. She knew the kids needed it. She knew doing otherwise would give Hunter even less incentive to take her back. But everyone had their breaking point, and lately, she’d found herself wishing he’d just toss her to the street and be done with it. Then she could have told Christophe to just keep driving—north,

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