Broken Creek (The Creek #1) (12 page)
When he was in his early teens, his father was on a drug and alcohol binge late one night and drove their car into a bridge. Stephan and his sister were in the backseat and not hurt, but his mother was killed and his father went to prison. Their family was living in Little Rock at the time, and he moved to Hatman to be raised by his grandmother, who had since passed.
“Is that right?” he asked, toweling off.
“What? Oh, I’m sorry. I was admiring your body and got lost in my fantasies.” I played with him.
“I love role play. Care to share.”
“You are a dirty boy. Go get dressed.”
“What’s on the agenda for today? Do you have plans with your mom?”
“No, she said she wanted to spend the day resting.”
He left me to myself, not saying what he was doing. I didn’t have an overnight bag, so once again I had to go to the box for clothes.
I found him in the kitchen, making a list. Something we both did all the time. At the top of the list was
smoking patches
. Aha, I remembered the last few days and didn’t recall that he had smoked, not even once.
“You’re quitting smoking?”
“Don’t get too excited. I’m trying. It’s hard as hell, but the patches are helping.”
“I’m proud of you. Hey, I saw the photo of Analina and Eric. How are they?”
“Great. They’re in Germany now, and he’s done well with his rank. Says he’s going five more years until he gets his twenty in for retirement.”
“Do they have kids?”
“Been tryin’ but the doctor told her years on the pill could be the problem. They’re thinking of adopting.” He was writing stuff down as he spoke.
“I’ve been taking them for seven years now. Hmmm.” I took a seat at the bar across from him.
He looked up at me. “I wondered if you were still on them. I used condoms because I wanted us to be safe, but Dr. Palmer ran tests last week, and I’m clear.”
“You went to see Dr. P? You were sure we would…”
“Hoping and preparing. I knew you would trust him for the results and would go check for yourself if you had any doubt, but I always used condoms, except for you.”
“There’s been no one but you for me, Stephan.”
He smiled a big smile and gave me a great view of his beautiful white teeth surrounded by full and naturally rosy lips. For a second, my thoughts drifted to the talents he had with those lips and what he had done to me the night before. As if he was reading my mind, he stretched his torso over the counter, place a hand sweetly on each side of my face and ravaged my flesh with his. My mouth parted and made way for his tongue to enter—the dance delightful.
He was the first to pull away. “This is going to be the best year ever.”
To be continued…
Secrets and lies of the creek...
When escaping isn't enough...
Starting over means saying goodbye…
Closure seems impossible…
A chance meeting brings a fresh start in an unforeseen world, until tragedy strikes…
Fate deals Wrenn an unexpected hand. With a shattered heart, she must find the courage to forgive and move forward because the life of another is now counting on her. Happiness seems out of reach until the day it was staring her down and daring her to empower herself.
Meeting Mr. Lawrence at the Cancer Center turned sadness into sunshine. She never anticipated that the ailing billionaire would come to mean the world to her in so many ways.
All is well until Dane Lawrence, the billionaire’s grandson gets Wrenn caught up in a deadly game of corporate espionage, where once again Wrenn is involved in a tragic event in the same barn that changed her life when she was just 17 years old.
This time, the nightmares consume her.
Does Wrenn find the love she’s looking for and the forgiveness she needs to leave the past behind? Or perhaps life continues to send her down the black hole, an oblivion of hell that she struggles to fight her way out of, until the realization comes that it’s now life or death of her and her unborn child if she doesn’t fight the monsters holding her hostage…
Forgiveness Creek, Part Two of The Creek Series
, a novel, available November 11
th
, 2014
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