Broken by Teona Bell

Author:Teona Bell [Bell, Teona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, United States, African American, Romance, Contemporary, Multicultural, Two Hours or More (65-100 Pages), Multicultural & Interracial
Amazon: B00OTWAAJQ
Published: 2014-10-22T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

“Ciera, wake up.”

She moaned.

“Come on, baby, open those beautiful eyes for me.”

She kept them closed. “I don’t know what time it is, Nathan, but I’m going to crack you if you don’t back off and let me rest.”

“You can rest at my house.”

“What?” Now she did open her eyes. He was sitting on the side of her bed pulling his shoes on. “You’re going? What time is it?”

He glanced at her bedside table, and she turned to look too. “Eleven. I’ve got to get back to let Sadie go home.”

“Oh crap. I’m sorry.” She shot up to a sitting position. “We fell asleep.”

“Yeah, we did. Now I want you to get dressed so you can come to my place.”

“And spend the night?”

“Of course.”

“I don’t think that’s such a good idea.”

He finished with his shoes and leaned over to kiss her. “I do. I want to wake up tomorrow and make love to you again. Or maybe I’ll just sleep inside you.”

She shivered, liking the sound of that too much. “Don’t be crazy, Nathan. I can’t sleep over. What about Melly?”

“What about her? She likes you.”

“It doesn’t look right.”

“It looks fine. Get dressed.”

She scrambled for excuses to keep her mind from accepting his offer. “We didn’t eat and left the dining room a mess. I have to clean up.”

“I already did it.”

“You’re kidding?”

He grinned. “I had a sneaking suspicion you would make excuses not to come. So what else do you have?”

She grumbled.

“Get dressed, beautiful. I’m waking up on top of you.”

“You’re getting carried away.”

“I’ll make you pancakes and sausage.”

Her stomach growled since neither of them had eaten dinner. She glared at him for tempting her and then threw her feet over the side of the bed. In all honesty, she did want to go to his house, even if it might be too soon. She even wanted to see Melly again, more than she should. Over the last couple of months of them seeing each other, she had kept her visits with the three-year-old to a bare minimum. Melly was so sweet, Ciera could love her, and if she and Nathan broke up, it would kill her not seeing the little girl. Better to keep her distance. Now here he was asking her to spend the night and get to see him and Melly for breakfast. Nathan didn’t play fair at all. She knew that, but she sure as hell was going along with it.

Half hour later, they pulled up into the driveway of his small rancher in Plano. Ciera had been there briefly, but she still got that sense of regret seeing it like the first time. Melly had pasted sun-reflective butterfly stickers in the front windows, and of course her daddy had let her. Their layout had no rhyme or reason. Some were jumbled too close together, and one window was overrun to the point that she figured that room must look like it was under attack from the inside. When Ciera had seen the stickers during

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