Mend Your Heart (Bounty Bay Book 4) by Tracey Alvarez

Author:Tracey Alvarez [Alvarez, Tracey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Icon Publishing
Published: 2017-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

Friday night, with Olivia at a sleepover birthday party at one of her classmates’, Nat stood in front of her bedroom mirror in lacy panties and bra, waiting to see if feathers would sprout out of the goose bumps covering her skin.

That’s right, she was a chicken trying to convince herself she was a mighty eagle in charge of her own destiny. Bird poop all over that. She was a woman torn between fear and horniness, and a complete novice at the whole easy sex thing. Easy was the kind of sex she’d had with Jackson—up until Olivia was born. Then things had gotten a little less easy and spontaneous, and a little more planned and infrequent. But that was normal in any relationship. Especially when you had a husband who was away a lot and training so hard that when he did come home he was exhausted.

Nat ran a hand down her almost flat stomach, and took stock of her reflection. Nice boobs, not too big, not too little, not too saggy. Legs that were stronger from all the running she’d been doing. Waist the right size for Olivia’s arms to slip around when she wanted comfort, and hips that curved where a woman was meant to curve. Body image wasn’t the problem.

Having sex with someone who wasn’t Jackson was.

The flutters in Nat’s stomach grew stronger and she turned away from the mirror. She flipped open the little jewelry box on her nightstand and eyeballed the two wedding bands inside. Heart pumping like she’d just completed five laps around the school field, Nat slapped the lid shut and crossed to the back of her bedroom door. Trench coat or fluffy pink bathrobe?

Jackson was the first and only man she’d made love with. She’d met and married and gotten pregnant so young—she certainly wasn’t complaining that she hadn’t slept around before or during their marriage. Just…what if she’d forgotten how to be with a man? What if she didn’t know how to please Isaac—and what if he didn’t know how to please her? And what if it was awkward and awful? What if it was only mediocre; would she feel obligated to act otherwise? And perhaps scariest of all, what if it was really, really good? Better than good?

She went for the bathrobe, then froze mid-reach.

“Who the hell are you, Natalie?” Tears stung the corners of her eyes. “The little mouse still hiding from the world in Jackson’s shadow? Or a woman who knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to ask for it anymore?”

Nat swore and grabbed the trench coat. She slipped into it, dug out the highest pair of heels she owned from the bottom of her closet, grabbed her keys, and left her house before she could change her mind.

She parked along the street from Isaac’s house and kept her head down as she walked. Her heels clicked a brisk staccato, the sound muted by the drifts of fog rolling in from the ocean. A chill worked

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