The Bridal Squad by Samantha Chase

Author:Samantha Chase [Chase, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chasing Romance, Inc.
Published: 2017-05-09T18:30:00+00:00

Nine

Natalie rolled over, looked at the bedside clock and quietly sighed.

Two a.m.

A lone tear rolled down her cheek as she thought about the current state of her marriage, her life.

For some reason, she thought that after their night of angry sex, things would get better with Jayce – that he’d realize how he needed to help more around the house and not take her for granted. She brought the topic up often enough in the last two weeks and instead of him listening to her, they had sex.

Wild, angry sex.

It was almost as if he came home every night and did things specifically to piss her off so they could fight and then…do it.

It was no longer sexy.

It was no longer fun.

It was sad and empty and…humiliating.

Who was this man she was married to? Where did her sweet, mild-mannered husband go? Was this something he had always enjoyed and just…kept it hidden away? Thought she wouldn’t enjoy it? Or worse – was he doing stuff like this with someone else? She’d never had any reason to believe Jayce was unfaithful to her, but she also didn’t think it was possible for him to morph into this kind of man after just one fight.

Although…hadn’t she morphed into the kind of woman who liked it after just one fight?

All she wanted to do was talk to him – just talk! – and he somehow managed to turn everything into a fight. They barely had one civil conversation in weeks and it didn’t matter how much she begged and pleaded and cried, her own body betrayed her and she would cave to him with little more than a look or a touch.

This wasn’t who she wanted to be and it certainly wasn’t the kind of marriage she wanted.

And it was killing her.

She glanced toward her closet and thought of the bags she packed and hid in there earlier. She promised herself that if things didn’t change tonight, she was leaving. And sure enough, after dinner, she had asked Jayce about going to her parents’ house this weekend for her father’s birthday and he argued about how weekends were his time to be home and relax and how he hated how she made plans for them without talking to him first.

And here they were.

The thought of leaving her bed, her home, and her husband was terrifying, and it meant the end of the dream she’d convinced herself she was living. If she had the guts to talk to anyone about this, they’d tell her to seek marriage counseling before simply giving up. But she was too embarrassed to talk to anyone. There was no way she was going to be able to talk to her mother about this – even at twenty-six she didn’t want to have any kind of sex talk with her. Julianne was dealing with her own issues and planning her wedding. There was no way Natalie wanted to be the one to shatter the illusion of how hard and disappointing marriage could be.

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