Total pages in book: 71
Estimated words: 66099 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 330(@200wpm)___ 264(@250wpm)___ 220(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 66099 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 330(@200wpm)___ 264(@250wpm)___ 220(@300wpm)
I promised to take care of him, to be good to him. She’d asked questions that I didn’t know the answers to, like where we planned to live after the wedding. If we were going to stay in her home, which she said would be more than fine.
I had to tell her I didn’t know because I didn’t even know we were getting married that soon. She’d left after apologizing again and a few minutes later he’d shown up.
He was so cute in his nervousness that any lingering feelings of unease I had just disappeared. He’d stumbled all over his proposal which had made me cry nonetheless and once that ring was on my finger, I no longer felt like the awkward teenager who’d been ostracized her whole life, but like the most loved girl at Eden High.
It was still like being caught up in a dream when we stood in that half circle with the rest of our friends and exchanged vows. Now we’re married, married and constantly having sex.
It seems that ever since we left the altar I’ve been under him at least three times a day. I’d thought that with everyone else around it would be hard to find time alone, but I was wrong.
It seemed like every time I turned around there he was, ready to go, like now. We’d just had an amazing dinner on the beach and our emotions were still high from all the excitement.
We’d barely made it back into our room when he tackled me and dragged me off to bed. “You’re pretty.” He was laying on top of me, inside of me… again, and was brushing the hair back from my face as he smiled into my eyes. “You make me feel pretty.”
It’s true. It had taken me a while, but I’ve finally come to accept his words. I don’t know about the others, but I left all my fears behind in L.A. I’ve decided to treat the whole thing like an adventure. One long never-ending adventure.
21
Jace
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I’m going to kill Sian’s ass if she keeps this shit up. I pretended to be asleep when she woke early the next morning and groaned her way out of bed. I had to grit my teeth to keep myself from lashing out at her.
I slitted my eyes open when she walked out the door and closed it lightly behind her. I gave her a few seconds before following her footsteps and took off running when she did.
The whole lot of them were there looking guilty as hell when I broke through the door of the common area bathroom. “Get out!” They dragged their sleepy asses out of the room after apologizing to her.
She couldn’t say shit back because her head was stuck in the toilet and she was being sick. I had to put my mad on hold to take care of her. Holding her hair and then picking her up from the floor to clean her up when she was done.
“Let me just lay here for a while Jace.” She wanted to lay on the cold bathroom floor and it took everything in me not to object. I’m sure the floor was clean but that doesn’t mean I wanted her laying on it.
I laid down behind her and held her tummy while she drifted off to sleep. I couldn’t go back to sleep if you paid me. I was wired, worried and pissed the fuck off.
I wonder what fucked up excuse she’s going to give me this time and was waiting for her ass when she woke up. “What’s wrong with you? You sick?” I waited for the lie so I could rip her a new one, but she zinged me.
“Jace…don’t be upset, I didn’t do it on purpose I swear.” What the hell?
“Do what exactly?”
“I’m pregnant, but I was taking the birth control like I told you so I don’t know how it happened. The doctor thinks the medication…”
I turned her face to mine. “That’s what the fuck you were worried about? You thought I would be mad at you? Sian, do me a favor, from now on, don’t think. That shit will only gets you in trouble.”
“How could you think that I would blame you for something that was both our responsibility?” I was so happy that she’d finally told me I didn’t know what to do with myself.
“And that thing you asked me about lying to me, unless you want me to wring your neck you might wanna leave that shit alone. Don’t ever lie to me, about anything. And this kid had better be a boy.”
“I’m with you on that one.” Suspect as fuck!
“Why?”
“Are you serious? If we have a girl you’d make me and the poor child nuts.” Her annoying ass.
“More like if we have a girl she’ll make me nuts like her mother and I won’t ever get shit done because I’d spend every waking moment keeping both your asses out of shit.”