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Chapter 1

Harrison gripped the steering wheel of his truck so tight his knuckles hite He should be in a greatover hi between hi the turn a little too sharply into the quiet Coral Gables neighborhood where he lived with his wife, he wasn’t surprised when she didn’t bat an eyelash in the passenger seat

It took a lot to get Mara riled up, but lately she’d been edgy and distant At first he’d wondered if it was because they’d gotten ee had been less than a year They hadn’t been able to keep their hands off each other and the sex had been off the charts Thankfully nothing had changed in that respect, but for the past feeeks she’d been leaving early from the shelter where she volunteered, and was evasive about where she’d been going afterward

"It was good to see Grant so happy," Harrison said as he steered into their driveway and waited for the garage door to lift His brother was in a better o, Grant had been injured in an explosion that left his face, back and one of his ar involved in a relationship with Belle, his new next door neighbor, he’d been close to becohtly, her norree If anyone deserves happiness, it’s him"

They’d just coirlfriend/soon-to-be-fiancé and her extreood time, but Mara continued to pull away from him emotionally and he was about to lose his mind What had happened to make her withdraw from him?

"Do you think he’ll propose to her?" Mara asked, the question surprising him Lately whenever they spoke he was the one who initiated conversation

"Yeah, he showed " His brother had been so nervous, but there was no way his girlfriend would say no

Mara chuckled softly and, for the first time in weeks, it didn’t sound forced "I wondered why he kept patting his pants pocket all day"

It would be just like his wife to notice soot past her, a trait he found sexy, but right noired too tight to play nice As the garage door closed behind theet out of the truck but he placed a hand on her forear under his touch, she turned to look at hireen eyes filled with anxiety "What’s been going on with us the past h the question sounded like a sonic booht sht have fooled anyone else, but he could see the wariness in her eyes "What are you talking about?" Placing a hand over his, she squeezed gently

"You know exactly what" His voice was a lol, but she barely see it

Instead of responding, she turned in her seat and slid one hand up his arroaned when he realized what she was doing The past feeeks anytime he wanted to talk, she literally ju hi his hands on her shoulders he held her away froainst his fly, pissed as hell that he’d stopped her

The hurt in her eyes was real and that tore at hi me?" Okay, and the hurt in her voice was even worse

"We can’t use sex to fix everything" God, was that actually hi? His hot anted to have sex in his truck He should have her naked and riding him by now

"Fix what?" Her voice raised just a fraction

"Why have you been pulling away fromhi work early Not yet He couldn’t i on and whatever it was, she didn’t trust hih to tell him And he wanted her to co up her fallen purse from the floorboards, she held it in her lap like a shield as she wrapped her arined God, Harrison, I’ing, she trailed off

Mara almost never cursed and to hear her drop the F-bo on with her Maybe it really was just an adjustment issue, but so to say more, however He could see it in the stubborn set of her jaw