Redeem Me (Say Something Book 4) by Salice Rodgers Read Free Book Online Page B

can’t bring her down.”
    Trevor looks at me with a look in his eyes I have never seen before. He knows I am done. He knows this is the point I would normally walk in a bar and ask for the biggest drink I could afford.
    “The Taylor you know has lost a baby, lost a restaurant. I am sick of showing people they haven’t brought me down, Trevor. I want to wake up a wife who knows when I walk outside no one knows that I have been through hell. I have lost a child. I have sent four men to jail.”
    “Taylor, look at me,” he puts a finger under my chin and lifts my eyes to his, “you sent no one to jail they sent themselves there.”
    “Trevor, I am done.” I slide out of bed and walk in to the bathroom and step in the shower.
    The water does nothing to comfort me as I slide to the bottom of the tub and let the water run over my body. I hear the door shut and watch as Trevor slides open the curtain letting water fall all over the floor.
    “Taylor, we can pack up today and go somewhere new if that is what you want but what about Marshall and Joslynn? They have their family here and I know you would never walk away from them.”
    “Don’t you think we have all had enough?”
    He leans against the sink and looks at me saying nothing. I know that some have had it harder than I have and they’ve made it out on top. I thought I could be one of those people who gets pissed and kicks ass and comes out on top. I wanted to be one of those people.
    “Come on, Tay. Let’s get you dried off. Joslynn and Marshall are on their way.”
    He turns the water off and holds up a towel wrapping it around me when I step out of the bath. I can see the concerned look in his eyes like I am a wounded animal that will run at any time.
    He wraps his arms around me and leads me to the bedroom where he has laid clothes out on the bed for me. I slide them on and walk past him to the living room where Marshall and Joslynn are waiting. I sit on the couch and say nothing.
    “Are you okay, Taylor?”
    “I’m fine.”
    “Taylor, look at me.” Joslynn sits down beside me and wraps an arm around the back of the couch.
    I look to her and she wipes the tears from my cheeks and smiles. She knows me well enough that I don’t have to say anything and she can tell all that I am thinking.
    “I love you, Tay, and support you in anything that you decide to do. But I can’t leave here. My life is here. Their shop is here,” she motions to Marshall and Trevor, “you don’t give up. We don’t give up.”
    “Joslynn, when is enough enough? Haven’t we been through enough bullshit? Don’t we deserve to be happy?”
    “Look around you, Taylor. We are happy. We have amazing husbands who have finally opened their tattoo shop and it’s doing good.”
    I look around the room and think about her words. Joslynn is the one person who can say something to me in my darkest time and make me see things in a whole new light.
    “I know you might not want to open Sunshine’s again and that I can understand. I think it’s time for me to stay home and be a mommy to my little boy. I am missing out on all the small things I don’t want to miss. But I do not want to walk away from my home.”
    I know Trevor is standing behind me waiting for me to say something. I turn my head and look behind me and he smiles.
    “I don’t want to leave home either but Sunshine’s has been nothing but a headache since the day it opened. I don’t want that any more. I want to be the wife my husband comes home to and has food done and hot ready to eat.”
    Trevor leans over the back of the couch with a smile of pride on his face and kisses my head. I lean back on the couch and look around the room. I don’t need Sunshine’s to be happy. I have all I need in the living room with me. I have a husband who loves me more than life. A best friend who has been there for me since I can remember and the meanest brother in law a girl could ask for.
     

Chapter Twelve
     
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