Taylor Jenkins Reid Boxed Set by Reid Taylor Jenkins

Author:Reid, Taylor Jenkins [Reid, Taylor Jenkins]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781668034262
Amazon: 1668034263
Goodreads: 101146099
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2023-06-13T07:00:00+00:00

MARCH

You’re a goddess,” he said to me, as he lay down on his back, sweaty in all the right places, his hair a tangled mess, his breathing still staccato.

“Stop it,” I said. I was light-headed and my body felt hollow. I could feel sweat on my hairline and upper lip. I tried to wipe it away, but it kept coming back. I turned toward him, my body naked next to his. My nerves were overly sensitive. I could feel every place his body was touching mine, no matter how subtle or irrelevant.

It was quiet for a moment, and he grabbed my hand. He pulled our clasped hands onto his bare stomach and we rested them there. I closed my eyes and drifted off. I was awakened by his snoring and realized that we should not be napping in the middle of the day. We had movies to see and plans to get dinner. I got up and cracked a window. A chill quickly took over what was a muggy room.

“Ugh, why did you do that?” Ben groaned. I stood next to him and told him we had been sleeping long enough. He pulled me back down to the bed. He put his head on my chest as he tried to wake up.

“I have to say, I am really glad you went on that NuvaRing thing,” he said, once he was alert. “I don’t have to worry about anything. I can just fall asleep after.”

I laughed. So much of Ben’s happiness was based on his love for sleep. “It’s not in the way or anything?” I asked.

He shook his head. “No, not at all. It’s like it’s not there, honestly.”

“Right,” I said. “But it is there.”

“Right.”

“You saying that just made me paranoid.”

“About what?”

“You can’t feel it at all? What if it fell out or something?”

Ben moved his body upright. “How would it fall out? That’s absurd.”

He was right. That was absurd. But I wanted to check just in case.

“Hold on.”

I walked to the bathroom and shut the door. I sat down and braced myself but… it wasn’t there.

My heart started beating rapidly and my face began to turn hot. The whole room felt hot. My hands were shaking. I didn’t say anything. I couldn’t. And soon enough, Ben knocked on the bathroom door.

“You okay?”

“Uh…”

“Can I come in?”

I opened the door, and he saw my face. He knew.

He nodded. “It’s gone, right? It’s not there?”

I shook my head. “I don’t know how! I don’t understand how.” I felt like I had ruined both of our lives. I started crying.

“I’m so sorry, Ben! I’m so sorry! I don’t understand how this could have happened! It’s not… I did exactly what I was supposed to! I don’t know how it would have just fallen out! I don’t! I don’t!”

Ben grabbed me. By this time he had put his underwear back on. I was still naked as he clutched me.

“It’s going to be okay,” he said. “We have plenty of options.”

To me, when a man tells you that you have options, he means you can get an abortion.

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