Unchained by Roze Robyn

Author:Roze, Robyn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Once the jet descended below the thick band of clouds, Shayna recognized the famed landmarks and pulsing sprawl expanding in her view. A deep, familiar pang of unresolved emotions from the past crowded into the present.

At night, the twelve legendary avenues radiating from the triumphal arch below glimmered in red and golden ribbons of light from the stream of traffic. The slight lift of her lashes brought the Eiffel Tower into view, as she knew, all too well, it would.

Her mind wandered off script, turning back the frayed pages of her story. There, in those old, crumpled chapters, she could still hear their laughter. Still feel his caress. Still see a couple in love, as they had once been…

A luxurious, month-long honeymoon spent entwined in a private, beautiful Paris duplex, with a husband who had loved her, then. A man with whom she had explored not only the tangle of sheets, but the crisscross of streets and monuments now gliding by her cabin window. They made dozens of return trips during their marriage, many of them to celebrate wedding anniversaries.

Another life.

Another love.

She could never have imagined then that their story would end any other way than happy; together. It all seemed like someone else’s story now. A life she had only read about, not lived. The young woman in those stories felt as much a stranger to her as did the older handsome man in them, coaxing smiles and kisses from his young bride.

A series of taps at her knee scattered the conflicting memories and brought her full circle.

“You don’t feel sick, do you?”

She followed Scotty’s eyes to her stomach clutched in one hand, the armrest white knuckled in the other.

Shayna released her hands, clasping them in her lap. “No. I feel fine.” His worried expression shifted to a candid moment of understanding for the place where her mind had just traveled.

Then his features turned sly. “I guess the jig is up. You know why we’re here.”

“Yes, I do.”

Sean had sent her where he had intended all along, against her wishes. Even after she had confessed why it was so important to her to stay near him.

“Am I a surprise? Or will Dani be expecting me?”

“You’ll knock her socks off. She thinks her favorite uncle is paying a visit on a business stop. She doesn’t have a clue about you.”

“Great.” She smiled away his worried expression and patted his hand. “I’ll be fine. I am fine,” she clarified. “Seeing Dani is just what I need.”

“That’s what he said.”

He, who thought others were equivalent placeholders in his absence. He, who believed she could be shuttled like cargo and then claimed when he was ready.

Yes, he wanted her safe; yes, she loved him for that. And, yes, she was angry as hell that he had banished her, without the decency of even one phone call, one note, one bit of anything to give her the sense of connection to him she so desperately needed.

She caressed the strand of gems encircled at the base of her throat, remembering the secluded beach where he had presented them to her.

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