Elements of Chemistry: Capture
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His mouth hooked to the side. “I’d never ask you to apologize for it.”
“Good. Because I won’t.”
Martin’s eyes narrowed on me, like he was in deep thought, but his smile never wavered.
Then he said, “In the closet.”
I waited for him to explain. When he just continued to look at me, his eyes heated with meaning, I prompted, “What about the closet?”
“Let’s make love in the closet.”
“But we’ve already done that.”
“No. I mean all the closets. Every closet we can find.”
I grinned. “Every closet?”
“Yes.”
I threw my head back and laughed, thinking of all the closets in the world and how I’d struggled to avoid them, to avoid indulging my fears and reclusive inclinations, now that I’d found the courage to follow my heart. Little did I know following my heart would bring me right back to the closet.
But this time I would be with Martin and we would be making love. Or maybe we wouldn’t.
Maybe we’d just be sharing a private moment alone.
Maybe we’d be hiding from the world—just a little—but that was okay.
Because the world could be unpleasant and overwhelming. A demanding place full of uncertainties and expectations and fears. I was coming to realize retreating, hiding from the world on occasion, was not a bad thing to do, as long as I didn’t do it too often or because I was afraid of living my life.
Sharing a closet with Martin—closed away from everything else but our mutual love, respect, and devotion—might be a very healthy thing. We were a team, a perfectly situated pair of sidekicks.
And sharing a closet with my sidekick sounded like paradise.
~THE END~
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This is the ninth novel published by Penny Reid. Her days are spent writing federal grant proposals for biomedical research; her evenings are either spent playing dress-up and mad-scientist with her two people-children (boy-8, girl-5), or knitting with her knitting group at the local coffee shop. Please feel free to drop her a line. She'd be happy to hijack your thoughts!
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Happily Ever Ninja: A Married Romance (#5 coming Fall 2015)
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Grin and Beard It (#2- TBD)
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