Smolder: A Navy SEAL Fake Marriage Romance by Melinda Minx

Author:Melinda Minx [Minx, Melinda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-12-08T18:30:00+00:00

14

Coal

“I got cider, IPA, some darker beer, and vodka. Hopefully that will cover everyone.”

“Sounds good,” Andrea says, not looking me in the eyes.

“Is something wrong?”

“I’m just stressed with packing.”

“It’s less than an hour drive, if you forget something, you can just swing back here and grab it.”

“Just the whole act and process of packing stresses me out, alright?”

“Yeah, fine, alright.”

She’s lying about something. My guess is that her parents didn’t take the ‘Hey guys, I’m married,’ news as well as she’s claiming they did. Probably when she told them what I was like, they weren’t thrilled. I’ll just have to win them over.

“What are your parents like?”

“Uh, how do you mean?”

“How did they react when you told them I was an ex-SEAL who lived in the woods?”

“Oh,” Andrea says. “I, uh, I told them I’d surprise them. Again. I didn’t tell them what you were like, just your name. But I guess since a name can define who you are, they will have a good idea what you’re like just from your name, right?”

I narrow my eyes at her. Something is really off with her. Ever since she called her parents, she hasn’t been insulting me or making fun of me at all. Ever since we were married, she’d been on my case the whole time, right up until she made that phone call.

I give up trying to figure out what’s wrong. I learned a long time ago that when a woman is bullshitting you, you usually just have to wait for her to unravel herself.

Whatever is bothering her, it’s probably going to become clear once we reach her parents’ place tomorrow morning.

When it’s time to go to sleep, I start getting the couch ready.

“You don’t want to sleep in the bed?” she asks me.

“With you?”

“I mean…”

“Didn’t you say we weren’t going to do that again?” I ask, shoving the pillow down onto the couch.

“You can just sleep in the bed with me. We don’t have to…do that.”

“Nah,” I say. “I’m good on the couch.”

“Are...are you mad at me, Coal?”

“Not yet.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“I’m not mad at you right now, but I might be in the near future, depending on what you’re hiding from me.”

“Who said I’m hiding anything?”

“I can hear it in your voice. It’s painted all over your face, and—”

“Okay,” she says. “Fine! Sleep on the couch then.”

“Yeah, I said I would. So I’m doing that!”

She stomps up the stairs. That woman sure loves to stomp, she must have gotten a townhouse just so she could angrily stomp up the stairs. I shake my head in disbelief.

Whatever she’s hiding, if she’d just tell me now, I wouldn’t even be mad. Shit, I probably won’t even be mad for too long once I find out what it is. Maybe she’s even making some misguided effort to protect me from something? Maybe her parents don’t want me there, and she’s too afraid to tell me?

No real reason to get angry unless there’s something actually worth being angry about, so I’ll just go to sleep and wait to see what happens tomorrow.

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