What Really Matters by M A Innes

Author:M A Innes [Innes, M A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: M.A. Innes
Published: 2018-08-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Zac

Waking up didn’t sound like a good idea, but when I realized I couldn’t remember going to sleep, I figured I needed to function. Rolling over, I pushed the blanket down that had been covering me, and it all came rushing back.

Hunter knew.

Hunter also hadn’t seemed horrified, and he’d made love to me. So I told myself it couldn’t be that bad of a reaction. Looking around the quiet room, I wasn’t sure where he was. We’d made love...he’d cleaned me up...I remembered a blanket going over me and...oh, something about going to get dinner.

Chinese, probably.

Even though they were just down the street, if we called for delivery it was always cold. Hunter had decided pretty quickly that he wasn’t going to pay delivery fees for Chinese food that had to be put in the microwave, so he always went to pick it up. Glancing around, I tried to remember where my phone was because I had no idea what time it was.

Grumbling over stiff muscles and feeling slightly sticky, I climbed out of bed and headed for the bathroom. Shower first, then I’d figure everything else out. I turned on the water and caught my reflection out of the corner of my eye.

What did Hunter see when he looked at me now?

Was I still the same person to him?

Would it be a bad thing if I wasn’t?

His parents had given both of us a good example of how change wasn’t always bad. His mother went from being a homemaker when the kids were little to going back to work once they were all in college.

She’d gone from baking cakes and helping with homework to working long hours at a law firm. Hunter’s dad had just laughed as he’d described it, saying she’d gone from bossing them around to bossing lawyers around for a big paycheck.

When we’d gotten engaged, his dad had made it clear to both of us that yeah, they’d changed over the years, but the core of who a person was is what counted and not the little things like jobs and hobbies.

I just wasn’t sure if this was the same thing.

Climbing into the shower, I pushed the worries out of my head and held on to the good parts. Hunter knew and he hadn’t lost his marbles—or told me I was nuts. He’d helped me frost the cake and then cleaned me up. It wasn’t technically some kind of huge scene, but for us, it was a big step.

It wasn’t just him acknowledging that theoretically, he was okay with it all...it was him showing me he was trying to understand.

Big difference.

I heard a noise from the bedroom so I grabbed the soap and started to wash faster. When I was clean and feeling more awake, I turned off the water and started drying. Hunter wasn’t in the bedroom as I found some sweats and a T-shirt, so after I dressed, I headed downstairs.

I found him in the kitchen surrounded by too much Chinese food and wearing an I-have-a-secret grin that he didn’t seem to be trying to hide.

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