Please Be Gentle With Me Mr Grant

The two of them were husband and wife now, but it was all for the contract, so naturally, they were supposed to sleep in separate rooms.

She was never picky with where she slept, and this little sofa was comfortable enough. At the very least, it was better than her single bed in her old place, so she thought she’d be able to fall asleep soon enough.

But the sound of running water continued to stimulate every one of Blanca’s nerves. She stared at the doorway to the bathroom, wide awake.

Everything that had just happened was just too ridiculous.

She was married. To a man she’d only known for three days!

And that man was just one flimsy wall away, inside … showering.

Realizing that, Blanca’s face burned.

Everything that had happened inside the bathroom seemed to replay over a reel in her head…

Flashing still before her were Matthew’s deep eyes, his hot breath by her ear, the warmth of his arm on her shoulder.

He was pretty handsome, and kind to go with it…

Thinking of all that, Blanca hugged the blankets to herself, buried her face in them, and shut her eyes.

Sleep… sleep…

your

had been forced! It was all to find her parents earlier! That was it,

came out of the bathroom in a robe, he saw Blanca curled up like a rabbit

before she’d

and her fetal form, as if she lacked even the most basic

up and found herself

side, and found Matthew next to her, also opening

too?” Wait, that wasn’t right. “I mean, why am

up, got dressed, all while grinning teasingly at her. “I didn’t think you’d be

thrummed and she thought back to

the small hours, so after she went to

Went to the bed…

the haze, she remembered

Oh dear…

to find a hole

Crawl into it.

And die.