Unbounded by C. Tyler

Author:C. Tyler [Tyler, C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance Fiction
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group
Published: 2022-11-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

At six a.m., my alarm went off, rousing me from a shallow sleep. I hadn’t been able to get comfortable, though not for the same reason as before. The welts had faded substantially, possibly from Michele’s oil, so the unease had nothing to do with the physical.

Kennia emerged from the bathroom, running her hand along her hair to press it back into place after sleeping. I sidestepped her and got ready, too.

We moved with ease, gliding around one another and hardly speaking a word until something inside me snapped. There’d been no build-up, nothing that had led to it, but the statement flowed out of my mouth before she had the chance to reach for the doorknob.

“I had sex with Michele last night.”

She froze, mid-reach. I was horrified at what’d I’d done, my eyes wide in shock.

Stupid, stupid, stupid!

She faced me, her head cocked to the side while a strange expression twisted her features.

“You plan on seein’ him? For real, I mean.”

That had been the consequence of blurting out something that should’ve been calmly stated.

Swallowing hard and chewing on the inside of my cheek, I shook my head.

“I…” She paused. “I’m…a little disappointed.”

A phantom fist slammed into my stomach.

I trusted Kennia’s opinion when it came to relationships. She possessed an incredible talent for reading people, something I hadn’t come across in anyone else. It came down to how she’d been wired, and if she chose, she could’ve made millions as a shrink, undoubtedly being able to pinpoint and root out problems.

There’d never been judgment from Kennia. Disappointment, perhaps, but never judgment, and that disappointment hadn’t been for my lifestyle. Kennia had always been vocal about my lack of personal connection. Sex could come from anywhere, anyone, but a true connection was hard to find. In a lot of ways, she was the only person I could talk to about sex, because it was inconsequential to her.

Until I’d met Kennia, I, to the best of my knowledge, had never met anyone who identified as asexual and didn’t have any idea what it meant. I’d initially thought that asexuals were, for the most part, nun-like or priest-like individuals who considered sex an unsavory part of life, so they chose to ignore it. She set me straight by saying that, in spite of most depictions in media, asexual people weren’t virginal idiots who knew nothing about sex and freaked out or vomited at the mere mention of it. They just didn’t care about it. It wasn’t a factor that played into their relationships. Kennia’s only concern was the connection she felt toward her partner. It was deeper than sex and in a lot of ways purer, without the added complication. Whether she’d chosen to date a man or a woman at the time, her relationships came down to how their personalities and interests fit together. That wasn’t to say she’d never had sex with her partners, but it remained far from her motivation or care.

So when she told me that she was

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