The Rebel Heir by Ember Leigh

Author:Ember Leigh [Whitley Cox && Ember Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ember Leigh
Published: 2024-01-27T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

COLTON

Tantric sex was beyond simply the physical connection. It was as much spiritual as energetic. Which made it extra hard to insert the distance that I needed to insert if I was going to fucking save myself.

I stared at myself in the mirror above my dresser, the rumpled sheets of my queen bed behind me in the reflection. Lily’s hair tie lay on the corner of the bed, forgotten that morning as she’d perched on the edge and made her braids, grinning up at me like we’d been fucking and in love for years.

In love.

I didn’t want to think about those words. They crossed my mind more often than I wanted to admit, and every time they showed up, I gave them a strong shove to send them back to where they’d come from.

I stared at the hair tie. A half hour ago, Lily had left to talk with some business owners. Which had left me alone in the bed, staring at the ceiling, inhaling the remnants of her sweet scent on my sheets until I’d forced myself to get up. Now I was stuck staring at my reflection, trying to figure out the path of least resistance.

Things with Lily felt natural and good. But the ugly claws of possession were beginning to sink in. Claws composed of jealousy. Of roots, which scared me on another level altogether.

Seeing how upset she’d gotten about Angela drove home a fact that felt more like a warning alarm: we were in too deep. And part of me had been outrageously pleased that she cared enough to get snippy about Angela.

But that was the problem right there. I didn’t want to care.

Maybe Dennis was right. Lily had been changing me without me even realizing. How much time was I pouring into her and this cause she’d brought to my doorstep? It was one I believed in, one that was important, but it didn’t mean I needed to devote my whole life to it or Lily.

Someone needed to keep reminding us that this had a time limit, like we’d agreed to in the beginning. That this was a means to an end, and our regularly scheduled lives would resume as soon as she won the mayoral race. And I guess I had to be the one to hold the line.

I raked a hand through my hair, flattening a wily spot that had formed throughout the night with Lily buried in my arms. On the one hand, I couldn’t stop myself from indulging when she was around. If she was begging for tantric sex, I had to give it to her. If there was an opportunity to drift off to sleep with her warmth against me, I was going to take it.

I wasn’t sure what the exit plan would be once the campaign ended.

What would we tell the town? My brothers? Her mom?

I scowled at my reflection in the mirror. I didn’t have the answers. I knew that my chest ached too much these days, and the quickest way to make it stop was to go back to how things used to be.

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