Broken by Faith by Eve L. Mitchell

Author:Eve L. Mitchell [Mitchell, Eve L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eve L. Mitchell
Published: 2023-11-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Faith

Holy shit.

By the time I exited the bathroom, I’d be legally married. Was I ready for that? Too bad if I wasn’t; he’d done it all. I had wedding pictures. Wedding pictures. He’d gone and made wedding pictures. With me in a wedding dress. A dress that I would have worn easily and a meal I would have chosen and… I sat down on the toilet when my knees began to shake.

Holy shit.

I was returning home married to the man my brother had hired to find me. Dropping my head into my hands, I stared at the tiled floor. This is what I had asked for.

No. That wasn’t right. This was what I had begged him for.

Hounded him for.

Why was I freaking out?

“Because you’re married,” I whispered into the silence. I’d never said “I do” and I probably never would now. “It’s two years,” I reminded myself, raising my head and sitting up straight, correcting my posture. “Two years is nothing.”

Well…it was twenty-four months. Not exactly nothing.

Slowly I stood, peeling off my clothes and blindly stepping into the shower. Letting the water beat down on me, I closed my eyes.

I knew nothing about him. He could be an abuser. A sex offender. A murderer.

“Get a grip, Pix,” I warned myself under the spray. “You’re a good judge of character,” I told myself, as my brain immediately displayed the faces of my exes like it was some desperate dating lineup. “Okay, you’re terrible at picking men to date, but you have a good feel for people.”

I did. Usually. But my brain and my body couldn’t quite figure out if Cooper was someone I wanted to date or a person I wanted in my life. When I first met him, although he pissed me off instantly, my body still wouldn’t have kicked him out of bed.

My body still didn’t want to kick him out of bed. My brain hadn’t yet decided what it wanted.

Which is why this was probably one of the worst decisions I’d ever made. I wasn’t thinking with my head; I was thinking with my lady parts, and I’d just reminded myself how bad her taste in men was, so I knew my lady parts were terrible judges of character.

“Shit.” Rinsing my hair of the shampoo, I finished my shower quickly. Wrapped once more in a towel, I went back to the bedroom. “We need to call it off.”

Cooper looked up at me, his face impassive, and then he glanced at his watch. “Took you five minutes longer than I thought.”

“You’re not surprised?” I asked, tightening the towel around me.

“No.” He returned his attention to his laptop.

“And you’re okay calling this off?”

“No.” He didn’t look up, just kept typing. “You signed a contract, the marriage license is through, and I have a ring to pick up from the jewelers.”

I gawked at him. “What are you saying? I can’t back out?”

“Too late.” He looked up, mockery dancing in his eyes. “Wife.”

“Then annul it.”

“The ink’s barely dry. You wound me.” The corner of his mouth curled upwards as he returned his attention to the screen.

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