Redemption: a BWWM romance by Stephanie James

Author:Stephanie James [James, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jessica Watkins Presents
Published: 2015-11-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7: Makenna

“MAKENNA!! WHAT has gotten into you?!” he called after me as I marched up the stairs in a full rage. We had just gotten back from our wedding party brunch and I was beyond livid. Not only didn’t he fire the little Ms. Wedding Planner, but he had given her free control to make any changes to our wedding that she felt necessary. The way she had been staring at him all morning looked as if she used a bit of her own persuasion methods to keep her little job. I was sick of sitting back and pretending to be blind to a man that I was rapidly losing feelings over.

He chased after me and found me packing my things as quickly as I could. Snatching up the suitcase, he looked at me with pleading eyes. The confident business man was replaced with a frightened little boy; I was almost tempted to stay. Almost. I reached for the suitcase causing him to pull it further out of reach. We stood there staring at each other; both pleading different cases. His, one of forgiveness and mine, one of solitude. I needed time alone to consider everything. The past few months between us had been anything, but pleasant and I was simply tired of it. I didn’t want to give up, but something had to give between us. The unexplained marks of passion, the late nights, and sudden irritability was more than pre-wedding jitters. Something was going on with him and I wanted to know. I needed to know.

“You’ve changed,” I mumbled through a shaky breath, breaking our eye contact.

He placed the suitcase on the floor and took a seat on the bed, motioning for me to join him. I declined his offer with a simple shake of the head and crossed my arms. I wasn’t about to break just yet.

“You have to talk to me, Richard. Your behavior lately can’t be blamed on this wedding. What is it that’s making you into a man that I can no longer respect?”

He looked up as if he was searching for the right words before sighing deeply. “Do really love me, Makenna?”

“Uh uh. You will not make me the villain in all of this. All I have done is shown you that I want and need you, so don’t try to make it seem as if I don’t love you.”

He looked at me through sincere eyes causing me to close mine. “I know you care about me, but do you truly love me as more than a friend?”

“I do. But your actions as of late makes it really hard to love you when I’m not even 100% sure if you’ve been honest with me. You work all kinds of hours now, you’re almost never home, you’ve been distant, coming home with various unexplained marks that I can’t help but believe has come from sexual acts, and you don’t even look at me the same,” I admitted, while beginning to pace the room. “Even before we’d gotten together you used to look at me like I held the key to your heart.

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