Page 49 of The Bad Husband

Done with what he was doing, he shifts his focus to me, and tilts his head to the side, waiting.

My voice shakes a little as I go on.

“You said she was sleeping in the other side of the house. Isn’t she supposed to rest in your bedroom?”

He folds his arms over his chest, enhancing the tension in his muscles.

I wish he didn’t do that.

Now, I gawk at him as if I’ve never seen a man like him in my life.

Newsflash.

I’ve never seen a man like him in my life, but that’s beyond the point.

“She has her own bedroom,” he says, gauging my reaction.

That’s neither here nor there.

He knows what I’m asking; he’s just not willing to give me a direct answer.

Seriously now?

They’re not sharing a bedroom?

“Is there anything else you’d like to know?” he asks as if he’s had enough of my questioning.

“No, not really. Have a good night, sir,” I say, changing my attitude and pivoting to get out of the bathroom as quickly as possible.

Two steps and a firm hand on the door stop me from doing that.

He’s right behind me, wearing only his sexy pants, smelling like a giant sample of aftershave.

The heat oozing from his body wraps around me like a cloak.

“Don’t leave yet,” he says, using the same voice that he used in the office when he asked me to stay.

It’s quiet and tender.

Honest and impossible to argue with.

Facing the door, I look down, while he sets his other hand on the nape of my neck.

“You must know what she had told me before you interrupted us,” I murmur, his fingers slipping inside the neckline and slowly pulling at my robe.

My belt unties, and the sides fall open. He easily peels my robe off and lets it slide to the floor.

“I sure do.”

“Is she always jealous like that?”

“She’s always jealous of someone. She’s always been like that,” he says quietly, breathing over the back of my hair as he positions himself behind me, his groin touching my lower back.

His answer is like the one about her bedroom.

His answers are strings of words without clarity or meaning.

What is that supposed to mean?