Another excerpt for Wednesday. Happy Hump Day!
She
couldn’t stand it. “Say something.”
“Huh?
What’s wrong?” Daniel bolted upright. “What do you want me to say?”
“Shit.”
Ali crouched down at the end of the bedding, hung her head. What a spectacular
mess. “Never mind. God, I’m such a head case.”
The man
made a noise somewhere between disbelief and grand impatience. “Light of my
life, come here, talk to me. What the hell have you been telling yourself for
the past two hours, huh?”
She waved
off the beckoning hand, settled her butt back onto her heels. Her own stupidity
knocked her on her ass. “I’m sorry. Really, it doesn’t matter.”
The hand
fell and he lay down, hands tucked back behind his head. “If it didn’t matter
we wouldn’t be having this deeply confusing conversation. Now, tell me what I’m
supposed to say.”
She
didn’t answer. The words were a tangled festering knot inside her. Hanging her
insecurities out to air would not help.
“I like
you cranky,” he said. “I like you cuddly.”
“Are you
trying to be Dr Seuss?”
“Only if
you find his works sexually arousing.”
“No. Not really.”
“Probably for the best.”
Seuss is definitely sexy. ;)
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