Chapter 11

LEAH

I’m not going to lie, I feel a little happy.

Please don’t judge. I get it. I’m THAT girl.

The dumb one. The oh-you-got-your-heart-broke-again one.

The one who sits home waiting for him to call.

But what most people don’t know is that Aaron was the one to

sit up with me when I had nightmares. He was the one to insist

I learn to trade and to obtain my Series 7 license so I’d have a

career. Aaron is the one to stare me in the eyes everytime he

joins his body to mine.

And, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it’s just sex.

But it’s not.

It’s more than that.

I know it. I believe it.

And deep down, I love him.

As rough and cold as he can be, I know there’s more to him

than he lets the world see.

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the kitchen and grab an apple

the prep table. It’s ripe

hell are you smiling

It’s Jessica.

is down today and it

behind her like some goddamn shampoo commercial. Ugh. This

dance on my

saddens

be mean, Jessica. I didn’t ask to be Aaron’s wife. But I am. And I have been for a long time now. You

snatches the apple from

it into the compost

trash. And if I had my way, we wouldn’t just bleed you once a month, it’d be

is no world in which your

sins.”

reason with her. “I was

committed, Jessica.”

parents are dead. And

cousins and kin too. War is awful

that way.”

She huffs.

do you know of it? You’re a human. For

know why he even bothers to keep

pack. No use

That hurts.

isn’t ashamed or apologetic for her

he was

to be some sanctity for our relationship.

mated. We

has to count for something.

Jessica… it isn’t good for either

her head at me. “I don’t care

does. And if you think that

finished with being nice to

it’s the only warning I get.

my arms as she grabs me and hurls

the

into the pantry door and stay there on the

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