The whimper she made, from deep in the back of her throat, was a protest that thawed to helplessness the deep, gnawing need to have him close, to have him possess her this way, was all that mattered. And before she could protest, he took possession of her lips, covering her mouth with a desperation that thundered in his chest. When he caught her, it was to draw her into his inescapable hold, his arms spanned her waist, and wrapped tightly around her with his unyielding strength. But he quickly closed in on her, long legs eating up the head start she’d gained on him. Eden barely gave him time to stop the car before she jumped out, her shapely legs carrying her as fast and as far away from him as physically possible.
He said nothing after that until the car drove past the wrought iron gates and slid quietly into the circular driveway. “Your happiness…” he trailed off, voice weighed with emotion that he would not convey. But then again my happiness has never mattered to you, so why should it now?” In fact, before you came in and ruined what I had, I was happy working at the brokerage firm. “Because your place is at home with our son. You demean yourself by working there,” he quietly countered. d little boy and for the man who carried his scars, scars that were so deeply entrenched they were now permanently rooted in his core.“That place is not somewhere you should be working.
How could a mother treat her own child in such a way? In her turbulent state, Eden tried to imagine the horror he went through, the crippling fear, and the unmitigated cruelty he’d endured, and it made her heart burn. Sitting up, she drew her legs to her chest and rested her chin on her knees.
Even now, she shuddered, horrified by the tale he’d recounted in that bleak, detached voice that had seemed too far away for her to reach him. She’d had her suspicions about his childhood, especially after the little bit Lucas had revealed, but Eden could not have imagined the extent of the abuse he’d suffered. Her mind replayed Dominic’s confession on an endless loop. The culprit of her sleep deprivation was the chaotic state of her mind, and it was wreaking havoc on the rest of her body. But then it really wasn’t from a lumpy pillow or how she couldn’t stay cool despite the centralized air conditioning. “No matter how hard she tried, sleep wouldn’t come.
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