AllFreeNovel
Share Us
Shaking my head, I laughed. “This could be so much simpler if you just… let yourself do you what you felt.”
“If I did that, I would’ve run you over weeks ago.”
“Damn, it’s like that?!”
“It was,” she admitted with a shrug. “Now…”
“Now what?”
“Now I only want to run you over about half the time.”
I grinned. “Okay. I’ll take what I can get.”
I turned to head to the shower, but before I could get all the way through the door, she spoke up again.
“Orion,” she called.
“What’s up?”
“Thank you for today,” she said. “For everything.”
I shook my head. “I’ve already told you; you don’t have to thank me for any of that. And I’ve already told you why.”
Instead of saying anything else, she simply nodded, and I moved on to take my shower. Through the time I was in there, I reflected a bit on the conversation just then, one of the first that was just… Cool.
Casual.
It was… kind of nice.
And when I left the bathroom, to find her still in my bed, peacefully sleeping again…that was even nicer.
TWENTY
NALANI
“You’re wearing the earrings.”
Instead of giving him the satisfaction of a response, I flaked another bite of honey-glazed salmon off with my fork, stabbing the piece to lift it to my mouth.ThenI met Orion’s gaze, my expression neutral as I chewed.
It wasn’t until his eyes narrowed a bit, indicating I’d gotten just the tiniest shred of a rise out of him, that I smiled.
The win was small, infinitesimal, to be honest.
But every victory counted when I was fighting a losing battle.
Hell, at this point… I was sufficiently trounced.
I wasn’t conceding though.
Never.
More than a month had passed since the wedding now, and I was—grudgingly—settling into myMrs. Sterlingtitle. The house he’d moved me into was home, I never spent a dime of my own money, and many ofNectar’sbig vendors were suddenly much more generous with their wholesale discounts.
Those were the easy things to accept.
The surface level stuff.
Changes I could happily take advantage of.
