Love and Theft ( A Rock Star Prince Novel)

Chapter 9- Flashback

Anna’s POV

When I woke up the next morning Matt was still asleep. Once again I found myself lying against his chest, my hand resting lightly over his heart, only this time he wasn’t cling to me tightly, his arm that I suspected had been wrapped around me was now lying limply underneath me on the mattress.

For a few minutes I watch him sleep. There was no more anger or hatred on his face from the night before, his skin seemed to glow in the morning light. He looked peaceful, I didn’t want to wake him up and disturb him, we still had a lot of unanswered questions from the night before that needed to be answered, I planned on avoiding those as long as possible.

Carefully, I climbed out of bed. The second he was no longer pinned underneath me Matt rolled over onto his stomach, his face buried in the pillow. I smiled; he was never a morning person.

I got dressed, carefully choosing a dark blue pair of denim shorts and a white tank top. I was careful to leave my hair down to cover up as much of my bruises as possible, the long finger marks had started to turn yellow and fade already but the marks on the back of my neck were still a dark ugly purple.

I crept out of the room, carefully to shut the door softly behind me as I went. Matt was beginning to snore lightly; wow he was out good apparently.

I went into the kitchen, It was spotless from me cleaning yesterday. I found that I cleaned when I was stressed, and as happy as I was to have Matt here, I was more stressed out then I had been for a long time. It reminded me of the day Noah was born.

“You cheated” I accused with a sly grin “That’s not even a word”

“Is so” Ben challenged “Il go get a dictionary if I have to”

“No, I will go get it” I said “I don’t trust you”

I had never fought playing scrabble as much as I did when I played with Ben. We were sitting in our new small house, boxes everywhere, only our couch and a small TV try were our only furniture other than our bed.

“Do you want a hand up?” Ben asked

I shook my head

“Im pregnant” I told him “Not immobilized”

I struggled up off of the couch, self-consciously pressing a hand to my large belly and using my other hand to propel me up. God my feet were killing me, but I would never let Ben know that, he already worried about me too much.

“Are you sure you’re not having twins?” Ben asked as I finally found my way to my feet “There can’t be just  one kid in there”

I glared at him, but then smiled

“Jerk” I muttered as I walked down the hall, more like waddled but hey give me a break I was extremely pregnant here. My dew date wasn’t for another two weeks but it felt like it was two weeks behind.

I walked into the room that would be serving as Ben’s office. His desk was already set up in the corner along with a stack of books on it. I spotted the dictionary close to the bottom of the pile.

I started moving books, some were just light reading books that were light as a feather, others were thick legal books that I had to use two hands to move. Finally I reached the dictionary.

“There” I said with self-satisfaction “Now let’s find that ‘word”

I turned around, already flipping through the pages. As I walked out of the room I accidentally stubbed my toe on a box and dropped the book in surprise.