The Marriage Solution by Stephanie Rose

Author:Stephanie Rose [Rose, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: That's What She Said Publishing
Published: 2023-06-01T16:00:00+00:00

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JULIE

When I told Landon to stay here as long as he wanted, I knew that having him two walls away from me would have me on edge, but I was confident that I could handle it.

That was, until I heard him jerk off in my shower and everything went to a higher and even more unbearable level.

The groan echoing from my bathroom reminded me of our kiss, only this time deeper, almost guttural. I wasn’t sure if a fantasy brought on by wishful thinking made it sound like he called out my name, or if he was really coming to thoughts of me.

I didn’t know what to do about either.

My house wasn’t tiny, but small enough to be cozy—though, cozy wasn’t necessarily a good thing for us right now. Upping the ante on the stifling sexual tension only made the crossroads we’d come to even worse.

When I’d watched Landon unpack the suitcases out of his truck, it finally hit me that he was staying—and how much I’d always wanted him to stay. Our goodbyes were always sad whenever he’d have to go back to Charlotte, and Nate had called me out a few times for moping a bit for a day or two after he left. I’d tell Nate I was just missing my best friend and nothing more, but I’d been questioning every piece of our history lately, trying to pinpoint the moment when everything had changed.

If I looked back with an honest perspective, Nate wasn’t that wrong. It would be Landon, not Nate or anyone I was involved with at the time, whom I’d run to with good news first. When I was sick and kept it from Landon, it made the fear and anguish that much worse because—even though it was all my doing—I didn’t have my best friend to lean on when I needed him the most.

The lack of shock from Landon’s father that his son had married me, as if it was an inevitability, shook me into consciousness. My feelings for Landon ran so deep, I’d somehow managed to keep them a secret from even myself for years, yet others could clearly see.

I’d leaped into Landon’s arms on instinct and clutched on to him like the lifeline he always was to me. Not because of the bad turns my life had taken as of late, but because I always needed him, plain and simple—and so fucking complicated.

I’d asked him to put me down, even though it was the opposite of what I wanted. I couldn’t think with his body pressed so close, or the mix of wonder and lust in his gaze as his eyes had locked on mine. The flutters in my belly had become a zing of desire that shot straight to my core.

In the long minute he’d taken to set me down on the floor, my body had grazed his, sparking all kinds of fantasies. Landon pinning me against the wall as he plundered my mouth—and other places. I wanted to make

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