The Price by Elisabeth Naughton

Author:Elisabeth Naughton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Elisabeth Naughton Publishing, LLC
Published: 2020-05-17T18:30:00+00:00

8

NATALIE

I managed to get Luc to eat. After he had his way with me right there on the kitchen floor.

He didn’t eat a lot—half the omelet I made him and a piece of toast—but I was pretty sure that was more than he’d eaten in a week, so I didn’t push him to eat more.

After we cleaned the dishes together, we stretched out on the couch and watched a movie. Some action flick that had recently moved to cable. I didn’t really pay attention to it and neither did Luc. I was too busy running my fingers through his hair, and he was too busy sleeping with his head on my chest and his big body wrapped around mine like a blanket.

He slept a lot over the next few days, and I had a sinking suspicion he was making up for lost time, that he hadn’t slept much at all without me. I realized rather quickly that he couldn’t sleep unless some part of his body was touching mine. If I tried to get up during the day when he was napping wrapped around me, or if I moved at all in the night, he’d startle, come full awake, even have a moment of panic that made my heart race because it was so unlike him.

He didn’t like for me to be out of his sight. He was near me constantly, which was a dramatic shift from the first days after we’d arrived here when he hadn’t wanted anything to do with me, and I wasn’t sure what to make of that. And every time I saw that brief moment of panic in his eyes, I was almost afraid to broach the topic for fear it would send him spiraling away from me once again.

“Where is he right now?” Felicity asked in my ear as I held the phone against my cheek.

“Jogging on the beach. He’s strung tight as a drum. I had to force him outside to expel some of that pent-up energy.”

“And he went without you? That’s a good sign.”

I huffed. “I’m sitting on the beach, wrapped in a blanket, talking to you. He keeps glancing back to make sure I’m still here. Luc has always been possessive, but this is different. This is like paranoia I’m going to up and disappear. It’s not like him.”

“Hm,” Felicity said. “No, it’s not. How’s the sex? You two are having sex again, aren’t you?”

My cheeks heated even out here in the cool October air. “Yes.”

“And?”

I bit my lip, unsure how to answer without giving away too much. Some things in our relationship were precious to me, and I knew Luc wouldn’t like me gossiping about this, especially.

When I didn’t answer, Felicity said, “I’m a doctor, Nat. Nothing you tell me is going to shock me. And a big part of the reason Marco and I left you two alone was so you could reconnect sexually. Regaining control of his sexuality is the first step in Luc’s healing.”

I believed that, which was why I’d willingly given myself to him every time he’d touched me over the last week.

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