Merger: A Just Business Mafia Romance by Kiera Silver

Author:Kiera Silver [Silver, Kiera]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Calamity Jane Publishing
Published: 2017-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

He slipped in her bed that first night, seeming not to believe what she had told him. Grace refused to look at him, though she didn’t resist his physical advances. In fact, she responded with her own. She just did her best to maintain an emotional distance, so it was easier to just avoid eye contact. At one point, as he was entering her, he put his hands on her face, and their eyes locked. She saw his head start to bend, and he was clearly intent on kissing her.

She closed her eyes and turned her head away with a painful wrench, forcing his lips to land in her hair instead. “No kissing,” she said again, the only words she uttered throughout the entire event. Afterward, she rolled away and turned her back to him, and he soon left her room. She tried to embrace the hollowness inside, wanting to eliminate any emotion she might have been feeling, good or bad, at least when it came to Larenz. She didn’t want to turn into a cold, numb zombie with everyone. Just with him.

That night set the tone, and though Larenz came to her bed frequently over the next week, she didn’t speak, and she didn’t make eye contact. The sex was physically satisfying, but emotionally bereft. She suspected that he was feeling it too, because he started coming less frequently in the middle of the night. She was happy with that turn of events, or at least tried to convince herself she was. Having the kind of sex they’d been having was almost worse than having none at all, and there certainly was no lovemaking involved. Not that she wanted there to be with him, because loving Larenz was the last thing she wanted to do.

Almost a month after this new development in their relationship had began; Grace met her father for lunch. She was concerned about him the moment she saw him. He looked pale, and he had lost some weight. His normally dark hair seemed to have gone mostly gray in the weeks since she had seen him, and the bags under his eyes spoke for themselves.

As she approached the table to meet him, she bent down to give him a hug, wincing at how frail he felt. She pressed a kiss to his cheek before sliding into the seat across from him. “You look awful, Dad.”

He summoned the ghost of a smile. “You look pretty bad yourself, kiddo.”

She sighed, but didn’t deny it. Like him, she had lost weight, and she had trouble sleeping, both on the nights Larenz chose to come to her bed, and the nights he didn’t. Trying to distance herself from him and maintain an emotional wall was taking its toll on her. She shrugged. “Gotta do what you gotta do, right, Dad?”

His lips compressed, and he looked like he might argue for a minute before his shoulders slumped. “Yeah. Tell Larenz,” he practically spat out the other man’s name in disgust, “That everything has been handled.

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