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“You’re staying with Roger while she’s away.”
I nod and bite into my bottom lip with held breath.
“Ember…honey…,” Oh God, I think I’m going to be sick, “there’s no easy way to tell you this so I’m just going to spit it out. Roger’s a swinger.”
My mind goes blank and for long moments we just sit looking at one another. I try to make myself understand what he is trying to tell me. “A…swinger.”
This time he nods even though it wasn’t really a question.
“A swinger?”
His mouth lifts in a little grin but it doesn’t feel like he’s making fun of me or laughing at me. “It’s someone who…swaps partners.”
Swaps partners?
“They swap partners for the night or sometimes longer, sometimes they switch for the whole weekend. Swapping means they have sex with other people while staying married.”
“Oh! Oh my God!” The implications of what he is saying start to sink in. “Oh my God! My mom…she would never be alright with that!” But doubt starts to creep in immediately. “Right?”
“There’s more.”
More. What more can there be? He just told me the man my mom married was alright going out and fucking someone else. I don’t think there is anything else he could say that would be worse.
“He wants to have sex with you. And he wants to involve my dad and stepmom.”
I was wrong. This is way worse.
Chapter Five
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Hunter
“What?”
Her voice goes higher and cracks on the very last part of the word. I’ve thought about hundreds of ways I was going to tell her, how I could have explained this to her without causing her so much hurt and worry.
“Maybe they think you’ll help them turn your mom into one.”
She recoils from me and pulls her hand out from under mine. I put mine over hers when we stopped, and I tried to think of a good way to tell her what was going on around her. “Are you…? Are you one too?”
“No!” God damn it, I hate my father. I turn to stare over the steering wheel and try to control my anger that she would even think I am like my father. I have to remember she has no way of telling whether I am or I’m not. “No, I am way too possessive to share, baby.”
We sit in silence for a long time before she starts talking again.
“So…you…got me out of the house before…”
I turn to look at her and nod. And watch as her face crumbles and she bursts out sobbing. I started to tell her not to get so upset about it, but that’s stupid. Of course, she’s going to be upset finding out everything she thought she knew was wrong. Instead of telling her not to cry, I pull her across the seat and onto my lap at the same time I hit the button on the side of the bench to slide it further back, so she has more room.
I rub her back and hold her until she’s all cried out. Her deep gasps and sobs break my heart and the only thing I can do to help is just hold her and rub my palm up and down her back. Once she’s resting her head on my shoulder and the sobs aren’t coming so frequently, I chance a glance at her face, using my finger to tip her head up.
“You alright, sweetheart?”
She gives me big watery brown eyes that remind me so much of dark chocolate and nights made for sin. Instead of telling me yes, she gives me an honest answer and shrugs her shoulders. I shouldn’t but I can’t help but put my mouth on top of hers in a quick kiss. Her soft lips are so close to mine that I just can’t help brushing mine against hers.
“You ready to go?”
She nods this time but doesn’t ask me where we are going. Once I help her into her seat, I start the car but stop short of pulling out.
