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“Yeah.Night.”
She rolled away from him.
*
She heard him breathing.Knew he was awake, lying silently beside her.Not touching.
But their separation came before this physical distance.
She didn’t regret what she’d said.Not any of it.
Pauline said he needed honesty, well, that’s what he got from her.
Not because Eric Larkin needed it, but because that was who she was.So, if that drove him away, so be it.
CHAPTER THIRTY
SUNDAY
K.D.hadn’t seen Eric since he got out of bed to go for an early run.
Melody had scheduled double-length individual sessions with each of them, with K.D.’s first.
Their preparation under Pauline’s tutelage gave K.D.everything she needed as Melody led her through details about her relationship with Eric — her supposed-relationship with Eric.
Then the counselor’s questions turned in a direction K.D.knew better and liked less.
“Tell me more about your mother.”
“What was it like when you were growing up?”
“How did you feel about her dating when you were younger?”
“What did you think when she married your stepfather— Okay, Mark?”
“How do you view their relationship?”
What if your mother loves him?What if their marriage gives them both what they want.Isn’t that what a marriage should be?
She shook her head at Eric’s voice in her head.
“He restricts everything she does.Her wardrobe, her makeup, her hair.”
“You say she wasn’t like that when you were growing up?”
“Not at all.She emphasized looking good.Worked hard at it.Saved whatever money she could to buy clothes, have her hair done, her nails, things like that.”
“You didn’t care for that sort of thing?Makeup and clothes?”
“I was never into the girly things.I wanted to be able to take care of myself.”
Melody tipped her head.“Didn’t your mother take care of herself and you?”
“Yes.But she never liked it.She’d say she couldn’t wait until she could…”
“What?What did she say, K.D.?”
She couldn’t wait until she became the wife of a man who loved her as she was, and then she could stop trying so hard.
