Chapter 53

“Can you not stare,” I snapped at Valen. His roaming gaze made me self-conscious. My body was not what he would be used to, my stomach wasn’t flat, my h!ps had faint stretch marks and my b**bs didn’t sit perky on my chest anymore. My body was ruined from carrying Valarian. While he stood looking like he just stepped out of a sports magazine all hard chiseled muscle and tan complexion while my skin was pale in comparison and I looked frumpy. “Does my staring bother you?”

“Ah, yeah. I wouldn’t have said it if it didn’t,” I tell him, turning away from him.

“You have had a baby, that doesn’t make you look any less appealing, Everly, so don’t shy away from me now,” he says, putting his head under the shower spray to rinse the shampoo from his hair.

Easy for him to say, I don’t have ex’s for him to compare himself against. Whereas I have seen the girls in the papers that he kept on his arm, even met one of them. As if I wouldn’t feel inadequate compared to their perky fit bodies while I looked like used goods.

I quickly washed before hopping out and wrapping a towel around myself. Valen leisurely moved about as he got out, uncaring that he was standing around n*k*d in front of me but unlike him, I averted my gaze instead of gawking and kept my eyes strictly above his pecs.

I yanked his shirt over my head before undoing the towel when I realized the p-ants were gone.

When I tried to leave the bathroom, Valen stepped into my path. Moving the other way he did the same thing. “Trying to escape me?”