Too Distracting by Bethany Lopez

Author:Bethany Lopez [Lopez, Bethany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-22T18:00:00+00:00

24

Laurel

It had been a wonderful day, followed by an amazing night, and topped off with fabulous sex.

Honestly, I couldn’t have stopped smiling if someone paid me.

I was lying in bed with Dillon, again, snuggled up against him, again, and I was the happiest I’d ever been.

I closed my eyes, savoring the feel of his fingers caressing my back, and his bare skin against my cheek. Dinner had been delicious and I’d actually really liked the ballet, even though I had to nudge Dillon a few times when he started to nod off.

“Did you have fun tonight?” I asked him softly, not a hundred percent sure he hadn’t drifted off.

“Yeah,” he replied, his tone somewhat drowsy. “Doris and Roger were a hoot. Could’ve done without the ballet though.”

I chuckled and lifted my head to look at him.

“It wasn’t so bad,” I said, but he just made a face, so I laughed and put my head back down.

Because we were in this new place, no longer fighting, and Dillon obviously no longer thought of me as a younger sister, I felt safe and wanted to share. So, I said, “The last time I went to the ballet, it didn’t go so well…”

“What happened?”

My stomach began to tighten at the memory, but I took a cleansing breath, then replied, “Well, first, after I’d spent an hour getting ready, Travis told me I looked fat in my dress and needed to change, but the next dress was too slutty, so I ended up wearing slacks and a long-sleeved shirt. Then, while we were at the ballet, Travis complained the whole time about how boring it was … I mean, not just voicing his displeasure, but saying repeatedly, and loudly, how stupid it was. For the entire show. Afterwards, he told me I was never picking what we did on date night again, because obviously I was too stupid to do it right.”

I felt Dillon stiffen beneath me.

“Jesus,” he said, then added, “Laurel…”

But I cut him off and said, “You asked me before what happened in Houston, and why I came back home. Well, I’d gotten pretty used to Travis and his comments. If someone tells you often enough that you’re worthless and can’t do anything right, you start to believe them. It got so bad that I wouldn’t even listen to Jazzy when she tried to tell me he was an asshole and I should leave him. My parents loved him, and he said he loved me … I thought I loved him too, for a while. Then one day I checked my savings to see if I could afford a down payment on a cute space that had just opened up downtown, and it was gone. All of it … all the money I’d saved for years to open my business.”

“He took it,” Dillon guessed, and I nodded against his chest.

“Gambled it all,” I stated, trying to tamp down the rage I felt just thinking about it. “All that hard work, gone, and for what? Absolutely nothing.

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