I was sore in so many places, but it was a pleasant kind of ache, a reminder of what had happened last night. West and I had had sex. Not only had he made me come twice, but I had also stayed in bed with him. Never in my twenty-five years of existence, had I stayed the nig...
All I knew in that moment was that I didn’t want to be alone. I didn’t even know what I was asking for, but when Luke started to take his clothes off, not one part of me wanted to stop him. I lifted my chin and held his gaze as he stood naked before me, his body as solid a...
They were violent at first, causing me to thrash and scream, but Henry had been there to wake me from it each time, to hold my head as I cried. Sometimes I climbed into bed with him in the middle of the night, a preemptive strike against the night terrors. Just the act of sleeping beside him, wit...
From the moment she’d woken up, everything had gone wrong. First she discovered a flat tire on her bike, then as soon as she stepped foot in the bakery, Padma informed her that a customer had cancelled a huge wedding cake order, one that they had already begun to prepare for. Then Jolene called i...