Chapter 43
Henter looked at me like he had away figured out what I would find. I wished I had kom back then, then I wouldn’t had ti
“Swan was hewing sex with one of his friend’s wie. I just turned around and walked back to the cabin. I sat down at the table and just stared at the wall in front of me. I don’t know how long I had been there when the wit of the acher of Simson’s friends found me. She know what I had found out without asking She tried to comfort me and asked me if I didn’t know. I had known about the strangers, those I could ignore. But to do it with people we called friends? To humiliate me like that, it was different for me.” I looked at my hands that were picking at the bottom of my bap “That is so when 1 for the first time got a glint of what was behind the curtain he had pulled in front of me. I don’t know why it was so obvious for me at that moment. But I realised that the friends that had left mo didn’t do it because of me. They left either because they had slept with my husband and fall ashamed of it, or that he had tried to sleep with them and they felt
“I never was your fault.” Hunter agreed. “But those are some shitty friend. Al last the row that didn’t fall for Simon should have told you,” he said.
“They should. I don’t know why they didn’t. But that is when I started to see that my life won’t better because I had Simon. I finally could see that he made parts of it worse. And once I started to see it, I couldn’t unt. I nation ofher things and for the first time Wictor’s words sank in. I saw that my life would be better without Simon. It would be easier.”
“That you stayed,” Hunter saki. There was no judgement in the words and I smiled at him.
*10d. I know I had to low, but also knew I had royally screwed up. I had no job, I had no education, I had no money, I had no work experience, I didn’t own anything and I had no family except for Wictor. I didn’t want to be a burden. If I was to do this, I had to do it on my own, cominced myself So I devised a plan,” I told Hunter.
“What kind of plan?” he asked.
“I would let Simon pay for my new
would never allow me to go bad to fish my business degrees. That I did convince him to let me go to school to learn how to bake. I spun it as it would be a way to improve my cooking, and I would become a better wake. He agreed as long as it didn’t affect my responsibilities at home. For three more year I put up with my marriage. I thought it would be easy, that I would stop caring what he said, what he did to me. But it gets to you. When you are told each and every day that you are worthless, that you are stupid, fat and duroy, you start to believe it. I can still hear him iroide my head Printing out my a, telling me how I can’t do anything right. You have seen how my body still reacts as if it’s expecting to be treated he always did. Mistakes more prunished, most often by humiliation, but if he was in a bad mood by hits. It’s hard to let go I confessed. Again Hunter made me look at him, I didn’t see the disgarh I was aluid of, I saw competition and rage. Listinctively know the rige ain’t directed at me.
“Sweetness, have you talked to someone about this? I know it’s but tweed help to come things. I have led to pressionals about some of the things I have seen. 11 Help” he told me.
“Yes, schen E left him, when Wictor helped me to get my place, I started sing a therapist. It helped a lot. I was a real mess, but the therapist and Wictor helped me back to somewhat of a normal lite. I still talk to her, but only once a month now.”
“I’m happy that you feel better and that you have the help you and I’m sorry for what you have been through, Hana, it feels so worthless to say it. But I truly am. You are an aming person and I with you didn’t have to carry those memories with you.” Hunter said.
“Thank you. It’s not worthless. It means a lot to me.” I told him.
“The sorry I wasn’t around. I would like to think that i had I would have seen what was going on. I would have put a stop to it. I failed you.” he said. At that I smiled again as a tear fell down my cheek.
“You didn’t fail me, Hate You didn’t even know my hack then. And you can’t be everywhere, saving everyone,” I pointed out. He used his thumb to wipe my tear away and then he reached for me and gently placed in his lap as he could hold me. It took me by surprise, no one had ever be able to just move me around like this before.
“You aren’t everyone, sweetness. I wish I could have been there to she said me as he hugged me closer. I put my round him and returned the hug
“You sws. I don’t know how many times you he saved me at this point. From the moment we met you saved me from falling down. And since then you have just kept swings. If anything. need to start saving myself.” I said. He chuckled and kissed my chok
“I’m more than happy to save you when pred “We sat like that for a long while. It was nice to have cleared the air and I was happy I had bold Hanter about how my manage had been. I hadn’t gone into details, but if it was needed, I could tell him that be Now that we had started talking about it, it didn’t seem like that big of a leap to do it again. Would you teach me hour to make cupcakes Harder suddenly said. I sat up and flood thi
“Teach you how to make cupcakes?” I asked.
“Yeah, I have never baked. Well I did take home economics, but I think I spent most of the time in that class being an idiot, he told me.
by not? We have time and I think we could use something fun to do,” he said. “Do you think we have everything we need?”
wedy, I raid. I had made sure I mould make some cupcakes what we went shopping. It was my way of relaxing. “I love the idea,” I said and get up from his
“You’re not going to force or some that?” he asked as we walked to the kitchen. The thought made me giggle.
“would I had an
I one, but I suspect you don’t own
one.” I told him as I started
started to get the ingredients out
“Thank the fuck for all,” Hunter rumbled as he helped me “Are we going to make some of those anyone?” he asked as he looked at all the ingredients.
“No, I think for your first time we
time we will such to something below out chelate paken with mecha besting?” I said.
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“Doesn’t sound batic, but it does sound delicious,” Then we looked for what we needed in terms of tools, We found most things, but some things we had to improvise. Instead of a large mixing band a large pot that would do
“Okay, you can start with making some espresso so it will have time to cool down. 1 will start to measure the ingredients,” I told him. Hunter didn’t own a kitchen scale so I was forced to use measuring cups. When he was done with making the coffee, he came to watch me. “You can take that strainer and sit the dry ingredients onto that baking sheet,” I said.
“Yes, ki?” he told me in a true navy vele. I laughed and focused my attention on what I was doing. Hunter used the counter behind me to work.
“Whoops.” I heard him any “Oh oh.” It was the next thing out of his mouth. “Shit.” I had to turn around to see what he was doing. He had taken my instruction with gusto and was sifting like he had a purpose. The Bout and cacao went flying everputtene when he got a little too eager. I giggled and Hunter turned around. My giggle transitioned into full–blown laughter as I saw him with his
that cubed by cacan
“We should have got you an apron,” I told him and laughed. He looked down and laughed as well.
“You gave me the
i gave me the messiest job on purpose,” he accused me
just didn’t think you would go all vengeance on the task. Let me show you.” I said, reaching for the strainer. He handed it to me and watched as I did it.
ut will take ages,” he complained.
“It may take a little longer, but the ingredients will end up in the cupcakes, not on the counter, flour and on you,” I pointed out.
“Tur point” he agreed and book the stramer hack. Istumed to cracking eggs and every now and then I heard him mutter to himself to go nice and easy. As Hunter didn’t own an electric mixer of any sort, I put his muscles to use and let him whisk an added the ingredients. “This is not as easy as I thought it would be,” be huffed when we were done. I smiled.
sier with the right tools. I told him as I scooped butter from the pot into the cupcake liners using a ladle, Hunter put the cupcakes into the oven and I told my phone to set a timer. Hunter tume up behind me and hugged my waist.
“Locks like I’m not the only one who got a lttle messy,” he told me and looked at my hand. The hand I had used to ladled the batter with had scraped the sides of the pot and the fingers were alment roated in the chocolate butter. I strugged.
“Hassurd of the trade,” I uit was a good mood. Baking with Hunter had been fun and just what I needed. I was planning out how we should make the frosting when Hunter took my hand and licked the fuck of it to cert some of the batter. Then lir sucked one of my fingers into his mouth and huntmed. The vibrations travelled straight from my finger to my come. I lot a moan escapo from my lips and Hunter pressed in clover and plopped my taper hans his mouth.
“Min stocata,” he hummed in my eat
