to show him the dress finally. It had been hard to keep it from him as long as I had.
I quickly folded the clothes I stripped out of and placed them into my suitcase before changing into a pair of sexy blue panties and discarding my bra—the dress’ back was so low that a bra just didn’t work. I grabbed my body lotion and moisturized before pulling the dress on. The satin was smooth against my skin as I positioned it and zipped the back up. Standing on my tiptoes, I did one rotation in front of the full-length mirror outside the bathroom and beamed as I took in the color against my golden skin tone.
After I was done gawking at myself, I found the shoes I wore the night before.Jensen was going to lose it.
It wasn’t long before I heard the lock disengage and the door creak open. “Madi?” Jensen’s smooth voice called out from just around the corner from where I stood. Turning in the direction he would inevitably pass by to head to our bed, I cleared my throat to get his attention.
The look on his face when he saw me was priceless.
Chapter 6. My Past
“ S o, Madi seems great,” Kyle said as he handed me a beer from the large fridge his penthouse suite had. His parents and ours went together to get him and Lilah the penthouse for their wedding. And it was spectacular.
I had just left the hotel room Madison and I shared to come and do the last-minute bachelor thing that grooms did while they got ready. I didn’t want to leave her; she had made a very tempting offer before I left, and I so desperately wanted to accept after our failed attempt last night. But I couldn’t. Well, I guess I could have in that respect, but I wanted our first time to really mean something because she meant something.
Even if I tried to tell myself she didn’t.
Over the last few weeks, I’d like to think that Madison and I had grown closer. Even though, we may have started off on the wrong foot, there was something about her that intrigued me. She was different than other women I had dated. Clearly, in a good way; along with being beautiful, she was smart, funny and she didn’t seem to take shit from anyone. Not anymore, anyway.
The energy between us was immediate; I felt it when I helped her up after she fell off her mount that first day. Even though my good deed was met with contempt from her, there was something in her eyes that told me differently.
Days of treading carefully around her followed. There were moments where she would let her guard down, and I would catch a very brief glimpse of who she really was, but just as quickly, that wall slammed back into place. Normally, I had no trouble reading people, so it was frustrating to not have any insight into what had happened to make her so jaded.
The day she told me about her ex’s violent outbursts and infidelity, I felt an immediate bond between us. It wasn’t that I would wish the betrayal of a significant other on anyone, but there was something strangely cathartic about knowing I wasn’t alone. That neither of us was. Things changed between us after that. While Madison still put her guard up every time I started to take a new brick down, we were quickly becoming friends.
The sting of what Kaylie did behind my back would always be with me. How could it not? She destroyed a part of me the day she told me she had “taken care” of the pregnancy—our child—I’d also just learned of. As if I wasn’t going through enough, serving a three-year sentence for aggravated assault after giving Robert exactly what he deserved. I never thought I’d be whole again, to be honest.
At least, not until I met Madison.
I looked up at Kyle as he stared at me expectantly before nodding and taking a swig of my beer. “She is.”
Great was an understatement. She was actually the best thing to ever happen to me.
“You guys have a good night last night?” Kyle asked, waggling his eyebrows. It was ridiculous of him to even ask, because I wasn’t a
I quickly folded the clothes I stripped out of and placed them into my suitcase before changing into a pair of sexy blue panties and discarding my bra—the dress’ back was so low that a bra just didn’t work. I grabbed my body lotion and moisturized before pulling the dress on. The satin was smooth against my skin as I positioned it and zipped the back up. Standing on my tiptoes, I did one rotation in front of the full-length mirror outside the bathroom and beamed as I took in the color against my golden skin tone.
After I was done gawking at myself, I found the shoes I wore the night before.Jensen was going to lose it.
It wasn’t long before I heard the lock disengage and the door creak open. “Madi?” Jensen’s smooth voice called out from just around the corner from where I stood. Turning in the direction he would inevitably pass by to head to our bed, I cleared my throat to get his attention.
The look on his face when he saw me was priceless.
Chapter 6. My Past
“ S o, Madi seems great,” Kyle said as he handed me a beer from the large fridge his penthouse suite had. His parents and ours went together to get him and Lilah the penthouse for their wedding. And it was spectacular.
I had just left the hotel room Madison and I shared to come and do the last-minute bachelor thing that grooms did while they got ready. I didn’t want to leave her; she had made a very tempting offer before I left, and I so desperately wanted to accept after our failed attempt last night. But I couldn’t. Well, I guess I could have in that respect, but I wanted our first time to really mean something because she meant something.
Even if I tried to tell myself she didn’t.
Over the last few weeks, I’d like to think that Madison and I had grown closer. Even though, we may have started off on the wrong foot, there was something about her that intrigued me. She was different than other women I had dated. Clearly, in a good way; along with being beautiful, she was smart, funny and she didn’t seem to take shit from anyone. Not anymore, anyway.
The energy between us was immediate; I felt it when I helped her up after she fell off her mount that first day. Even though my good deed was met with contempt from her, there was something in her eyes that told me differently.
Days of treading carefully around her followed. There were moments where she would let her guard down, and I would catch a very brief glimpse of who she really was, but just as quickly, that wall slammed back into place. Normally, I had no trouble reading people, so it was frustrating to not have any insight into what had happened to make her so jaded.
The day she told me about her ex’s violent outbursts and infidelity, I felt an immediate bond between us. It wasn’t that I would wish the betrayal of a significant other on anyone, but there was something strangely cathartic about knowing I wasn’t alone. That neither of us was. Things changed between us after that. While Madison still put her guard up every time I started to take a new brick down, we were quickly becoming friends.
The sting of what Kaylie did behind my back would always be with me. How could it not? She destroyed a part of me the day she told me she had “taken care” of the pregnancy—our child—I’d also just learned of. As if I wasn’t going through enough, serving a three-year sentence for aggravated assault after giving Robert exactly what he deserved. I never thought I’d be whole again, to be honest.
At least, not until I met Madison.
I looked up at Kyle as he stared at me expectantly before nodding and taking a swig of my beer. “She is.”
Great was an understatement. She was actually the best thing to ever happen to me.
“You guys have a good night last night?” Kyle asked, waggling his eyebrows. It was ridiculous of him to even ask, because I wasn’t a
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