R Is for Rebel (34 page)

“You know, Max. I'm not sure I do.”

Max's eyes narrowed and Abigail stiffened in his arms. Eliot leaned in to kiss the warm exposed flesh of her neck then continued talking. “
Love
seems a small, mean little word sometimes, don't you think?”

Max shook the ice in his glass and thought of the woman in the bed upstairs who had just delivered his two children. “It is. Quite.”

“It's a meager syllable to embody the full satisfaction of a man's soul. The final arrival at an end that could never be considered because of its seeming impossibility. I think I'd survive, walk the earth, whatever, without Abigail, but I don't think I would
live
. Does that make sense? Does that mean I
love
her?”

Abigail was grateful she was already on the couch because the lower half of her body was weak and useless. She burrowed her face into Eliot's chest and wished she could crawl up the face of him.

Max smiled again. “Yes. I think that's a rough approximation. Add in a dollop of stomach-flipping terror and the occasional loss of sanity and I think you're well on your way to a perfectly apt definition of
love
.”

About the Author

Megan Mulry writes sexy, stylish, romantic fiction.
A
Royal
Pain
, Max and Bronte's story, was chosen as an NPR Best Book of 2012. She graduated from Northwestern University and then worked in publishing, including positions at
The
New
Yorker
and
Boston
Magazine
. After moving to London, Mulry worked in finance and attended London Business School. She has traveled extensively in Asia, India, Europe, and Africa and now lives with her husband and children in Florida. You can visit her website at www.meganmulry.com or find her procrastinating on Twitter.

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:

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