Taking Her Down by Jordan Marie

Author:Jordan Marie [Marie, Jordan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 47489860
Published: 2019-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

29

Chains

“Chains, this is too much,” Kayden says, looking down at the pendant I just slid around her neck. She holds the delicate diamond in her hand and looks back at me.

“You were admiring it in the window,” I remind her.

We’re standing in the jewelry store downtown. We ate lunch and were walking on the street. I discovered something about Kayden. She’s not real big on going into shops, but she fucking loves looking in windows. It’s the craziest thing. It does suit me however, because I hate shopping. Still, when she admired the pendant through the glass, I couldn’t resist the urge to go in and buy it for her. I didn’t expect it would freak her out.

“Well, yeah. It’s pretty, but that doesn’t mean you are supposed to buy it for me.”

“I wanted to,” I tell her, enjoying watching the way her finger is moving back and forth against the diamond.

“It’s too much money,” she argues again.

“Babe,” I respond, shaking my head.

“I’m serious. It’s too much money.”

“It was just a couple hundred dollars, Kayden.”

“You act like that’s small change,” she argues.

“Damn, women are supposed to love getting diamonds, They’re not supposed to bust a man’s balls.”

“I’m not busting your balls. I’m just saying it’s a lot. Sorry if I’m not like your other women,” she mutters, looking down at the necklace and not at my face. She almost looks… embarrassed.

“Stop that,” I tell her.

“What?” she asks, stubbornly, defiance flashing in her eyes when she finally looks at me.

“I’ve never bought another woman a diamond, Kayden. Not even my ex-wife.”

Her face had started to go soft, and at the mention of my ex, I see shock. Christ, I haven’t cared about a woman really, not like this, but even I’m smart enough to know you don’t mention your ex around the woman you’re slipping your dick into.

Or at least I should have been smart enough.

“You were married?”

“Kayden, I’m thirty. Is it that hard to believe I’ve been married?”

“Well I don’t guess, I mean obviously it was a possibility. I just… I never really thought about it. What happened?”

“Came home early one day, found her sucking off someone I thought of as a friend, or at the very least someone I trusted enough to put my life in his hands.”

“She cheated on you?”

“Yeah.”

“With your friend?”

“Not sure I’d call him a friend now, Baby Girl.”

“What a bitch,” she huffs, clearly outraged, making me grin.

“That’s one word for her,” I respond, taking Kayden’s hand in mine and walking down the sidewalk. “It’s no big deal, Kayden. It’s not like I was in love with her. I liked her, but I didn’t shed a tear over her.”

“I can’t imagine you crying over any woman, Chains,” she says, her fingers still on the diamond.

“I cried buckets over my mom.”

“Your mom died?” she asks. She stops walking, turning to look at me, one hand still touching the diamond and one still joined with mine.

“A few years back. Cancer,” I respond, and the sorrow I see on her face isn’t make believe.

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