She didn't want to open her eyes. The last thing she wanted was to be reminded that she was in a large house with a husband that didn't want her.
How could he touch her so tenderly one night and reject her so blatantly the very next? And the irony was that they were now married, which meant that he had every right to touch her without fear of consequences.
And he still chose not to.
Why?
Was it still because of the issue with Friedrich? But Friedrich wasn't in that bathing chamber with them…
They were married whether anybody liked it or not!
She rubbed her puffy eyes.
And she had seen in his eyes that he wanted her. Perhaps just as badly as she wanted him.
Should she have thrown her pride and dignity to the wind and launched herself on him?
The worst he could have done would've been to push her away. And she knew from experience that it was more painful when that happened.
"Are you finally awake?" Agnes's voice called out from the doorway.
Eve said nothing.
