Sugar Ain't So Sweet by Naleighna Kai & La Ammitai

Author:Naleighna Kai & La Ammitai [Kai, Naleighna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781952871504
Publisher: Macro Publishing Group

CHAPTER 12

Zach enlisted Jackie’s help and sent the children to be with her and become acquainted with their grandfather. Shannan accepted the invitation to visit the house so they could talk. Well, it started as a wonderful discussion on finding balance, rekindling the love lost between them, until …

Shannan burst into tears with her naked body clinging to his. She was trembling within the throes of a release so vicious she almost spoke in three separate languages.

Zach pulled away, instantly concerned. “Wait. Wait. Did you … Did I hurt you?”

“No,” she whispered, trying to recover. “It’s just …” She shook her head. “It’s the first in a long while that I’ve had an orgasm.”

He frowned and peered at her as though she’d grown an extra head. “You always have an orgasm when we make love.”

Shannan quickly averted her gaze to the freshly shampooed carpet, then forced herself to look up at him. His expression shifted through three separate emotions in succession—perplexed, shocked, then angry. Finally, his face registered an emotion that nearly stopped her heart. Crestfallen. She should never have told him that. This new “honesty in communication” thing was going to be an issue.

“Even that was for my sake?” he growled before storming from the room.

Shannan snatched the sheet from the bed, rushed to the closet and slipped into a thin robe. She found him in the den, staring out at the garden that somehow managed to thrive in her absence. She waited on the chaise, not too far from him, letting her presence be known without intruding his personal space. He needed a minute to absorb the hard truth of their former sex life.

“I’m sorry. Truly sorry.” His features were a mask of pain. “If you still want a divorce. I’ll sign the papers and … I’ll keep custody of the kids if that’s what you want, I—”

“I want my husband,” she confessed, moving forward to place a hand on his chest. “I want the man I fell in love with. I want the man who will see he’s being used and manipulated by people who only love him when it suits them or because he’s an open checkbook.” She tilted his chin, lowering his sight to match her eye-level. “I want you to stand up for you; stand up for us. To remember that you love me. Before the children, before anyone else came along, you loved … me.”

Zach lifted her hand to press a kiss to her open palm. “Did you know about them? Our parents?”

“Of course I did,” she whispered. “They’ve been married for five years. Your father is a good man who tried to be there for all of you, despite Monique’s ugly ways. He didn’t hide behind excuses,he got out while the getting was good and now he has a chance at happiness with my mother. The woman he loved before Monique did some underhanded mess to separate them.”

Zach’s mouth parted, but no words came out.

“Zip your lips, hon. That’s not a sexy look.

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