Powerless (Chestnut Springs Book 3) by Elsie Silver
Author:Elsie Silver [Silver, Elsie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780349437712
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2023-02-09T18:30:00+00:00
I emerge from the bathroom in a puff of warm steam. My skin is pink and raw from how hot I had the water, from how hard I scrubbed my skin.
I feel like I scalded an entire layer of myself away in there. Found a little kernel of strength hiding underneath and latched on to it. Decided I wonât be the girl who goes along with what everyone else around her wants.
Iâm going to speak up.
Iâm going to get comfortable disappointing other people to avoid disappointing myself.
I wonât apologize for doing things the way I want to do them.
Iâm ready to be unapologetically me and let go of the people in my life who donât approve of the person I am now.
Jasperâs head snaps up, eyes dragging down my body and the small white towel I have wrapped around my torso. He doesnât bother dropping my gaze or hiding the intense look of want that paints his features.
And I decide to revel in that. The petty part of me hopes it hurts. I hope he feels a fraction of the longing Iâve felt for him while he sat around, not telling me why heâs stayed so close and so far away all at once.
âShowerâs all yours. Bathroom lock doesnât work.â I hike a thumb over my shoulder and walk straight toward my duffel bag thatâs beside the atrocious little cot Iâve told myself Iâm going to sleep on.
Iâm not sure what point I was trying to prove. The new me would make Jasper sleep on it, but one look at him and his hulking frame tells me that isnât an option.
I love him too much to do that to him. And he likes me too much to say no.
God. Weâre so fucked.
âThanks.â I hear him move across the room, the floorboards beneath the tightly woven carpet creaking as he lumbers past.
I try to force myself not to turn and check him out as he goes.
But I fail.
Miserably.
I let my eyes wander over his broad, toned shoulders, the way his muscles ripple in his back as he walks. The indent down the column of his spine. The grayscale tattoos that wrap around his arms and a lone one that peeks out on his ribs. I can only see it because he lifts one arm and runs a hand through his hair, but it looks an awful lot like . . .
No.
I shake my head and turn back to my bag. When I hear the click of the bathroom door closing, I drop my towel and quickly slide into a pair of black Calvin Klein sleep shorts and a tight black tank top. No bra. My breasts arenât big enough for it to matter. This stretchy material presses them into place without issue.
I sit on the cot, and a spring pokes my ass through the flimsy mattress. Itâs fine. I didnât torture myself in pointe shoes for years to be put off by a minor discomfort.
As I lie back on the squeaky cot, the glimpse of Jasperâs tattoo keeps popping up in my head.
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