Picky Viscount: A Modern Aristocracy Billionaire Romance (Endowed Book 3) by Sara Forbes

Author:Sara Forbes [Forbes, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sara Forbes
Published: 2017-04-30T05:00:00+00:00

15

KEN

THIS SHOULD BE THE best morning of my life. Why then can’t I relax?

My mind is tainted—not with sexual desire, although there’s a plenty of that, but with this craving for justice, and this utter neediness.

Like an alien being inside of me, it comes bursting out at the breakfast table, angry and relentless. And I just let it happen. Something about the demure tablecloth, the silverware, the tinkling Muzak, and the delicate sunlight grates on my nerves. It’s all so pretty that I have an urge to destroy it.

“So, out of curiosity, why did you marry Peter?” I stir my milk into my tea as if it’s the most reasonable question in the world. I study the changes in her face, observing as she grapples to answer the one question I’ve asked myself every day for two years solid.

There’s a flicker between her eyebrows, a tightening of her mouth to one side. She sets down her plate of fruit pieces and stares at me balefully. “I’m not sure we want to talk about that, Ken.”

“You’re right, I don’t. But damn it, Liv, I have to. Give me anything. Doesn’t have to be a big long spiel. But…” I spread my hands wide. “Why?”

I’m sounding like the world’s neediest bastard, and maybe that’s what I am when it comes to Liv Mackenzie.

“He was there for me… when Daddy was diagnosed,” she says in a small voice.

“I was there for you. Waiting at home.” Like a moron.

She stretches her hand towards me. I let her drape her fingers around my arm but I hold still, refusing to reciprocate. Am I being as bad as her ex when I’m like this? I don’t know. Maybe she’s the one to blame, bewitching all men in her life, turning them into monsters?

“You seemed far away,” she says. “When my father got ill. My world of endless possibility just seemed to close in like quicksand. I can’t explain the choking feeling of not having options anymore. I was desperate for my parents, Daddy especially, to be happy with my choices. I thought it would turn everything around. I thought… Peter would call in his experts and Daddy would be miraculously cured.”

Her pain is so clear. I want to stop this inquisition now and take her in my arms. But I still don’t feel the satisfaction. It’s clear she wasn’t thinking clearly. It’s clear she wasn’t thinking about what she felt at all.

But did she stop, even once, to think about me? I clench my teeth, telling myself not to argue. I know how close she is to her father, how every day must feel like a ticking time bomb for her. Hanging around here with me must make her yearn to get home again.

“I was waiting,” I say.

“While Peter bombarded me with love,” she says. “I felt overwhelmed by all the attention, by all the things he promised… the best specialists in the world. It was exactly what I wanted to hear. And… I wasn’t good at fending for myself back then.

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