Break Me Down by M. Mabie

Author:M. Mabie [Mabie, M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: marriage of convenience, arranged marriage, cult, breaking trilogy, mabie, wake series, dark romance, dual pov, virgin bri, alpha male, taboo, cult survivors, virgin, friends to lovers
ISBN: 9781724717405
Publisher: M. Mabie
Published: 2018-10-23T04:00:00+00:00

18

Myra

I couldn’t say for sure or not if the wine had any hand in what I’d said at the stop sign. I assumed so, but I wouldn’t take it back.

Not when it was true.

Not when—after weeks of wondering if I’d ever seen it again, weeks where I thought maybe I’d imagined it—the purest affection I’d ever been shown was back in his eyes.

His breath fell out and he guffawed. “You do?” Abraham righted himself and faced the road again as we drove through the intersection.

“It’s all I can think about.”

How could I expect people be to honest with me if I wasn’t honest with myself? Honest with them?

Back and forth, his focus darted to me and then forward again all the way to the Griers’ house. It wasn’t late, but the lights were off, and Ted and Dori were probably in bed watching television like usual.

He didn’t say anything until the truck was parked and turned off in the drive.

Maybe men truly didn’t appreciate when women spoke up, like I’d done. He knew I didn’t have any experience with dating and that I didn’t know how to do it, going into the night.

“You have a way of catching me off guard,” he admitted. “I just need to know something.” His hands flexed around the steering wheel, and his head slightly bobbed as he wrestled with his words.

I waited, hoping I’d have an answer he’d like.

“Why do want to be alone? Trust me. There’s nothing else I’d rather be doing right now than touching you, kissing you. Know that. But...” he paused and swiveled to face me in the bench seat. His large hand raking through his hair while he tipped his head to the ceiling of the cab. “Why do you want that?”

“I just do.” My neck felt weak from the pressure to explain. It barely made sense to me sometimes. “It feels good when we touch. It’s like a hot bath. When I’m around you, I want to dip my toes and see if I can take it, and then I want more.” I zoned out on the teal numbers of the digital clock on the dashboard. “You always look good to me, always attractive. The way you look at me. How you had your arm across the back of my chair tonight. How I feel your smiles in my chest.” My ears were hot, and my face was flushed, but I was being myself like Ashley suggested. I swallowed and added, “I guess I don’t know why I like being close to you. I just do.”

His face was somber, hard to read. A pair of green eyes, only inches away, looked black in the twilight, and there were no other sounds in the truck, aside from our breathing.

I bet there weren’t many first dates between married couples, or whatever we were. But he was my husband, for all the state and Lancaster knew. And if for some wild reason I couldn’t even conjure up at the moment, everything we’d ever learned in that town was true, being with him was what I should be doing anyway.

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