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“It’s not. When Mom died, I spent years thinking it didn’t make sense, and it tore me apart. Maybe part of me suspected something was off with her death, but of course, I never knew.”
“That wasn’t your fault.”
“I know but, Luna, Dad’s lies were easy to believe because of how I lived my life in the past. It was easy to believe I was off somewhere on some island when my sister was getting married. It was easy to believe I’d care about that more than you. That hurt me deeply and made me realize I need to do better, so, please let me.”
She reaches out to take my hand, and I give it to her.
“How about we both do better for each other?” I suggest.
“Okay, but me first. I’m the one who needs more work.”
“If you say so,” I tease, and we both laugh.
“I do say so, and with that said, I just finished listening to your messages. Oh. My. God. I can’t believe the way you met Hunter. You stripped?”
My entire body goes red at the memory and I gasp. “That was a very long time ago.”
“But you stripped. And why in the ever-loving hell didn’t you turn on the light first?”
“I was really nervous.”
“What was the point of stripping in the dark?”
“Oh God.”
I shake my head at myself, and Layla laughs harder. I laugh too, realizing that the day has finally come when that memory is officially funny.
It feels good to laugh, and the two of us continue until we’re crying.
Feeling eyes on me, I glance at the door and find Hunter watching us. He’s smiling.
In his eyes I can see he understands that although so much has happened to break me, I’m trying to find my way back to happiness.
With him, I know I will.
Hunter and I finally have the house to ourselves again.
Layla moved back into her apartment this morning, and Paige is away visiting her family. We have a few days where it will be just us.
It’s been close to a month now since the scandal with Dad, and we seem to be getting back to our normal lives.
There were several times when I thought it was impossible to feel anything else besides the horrible heartache and grief, but Hunter carried me through and helped get me back on track.
Now I feel like I can breathe again, be me again, and finally move forward with all the things I want for myself as well as Hunter and me as a couple. Starting with tonight.
Tonight is our oyster.
A night filled with endless possibilities of what we’ll do to each other.
We’ve started it out by re-creating our poolside escapade from months ago when we played that drinking game. Except we’re in the sunroom—overlooking the pool—because it’s freezing outside.
I’m sitting on Hunter’s lap. Like that night months ago, I’m wearing his shirt and nothing underneath. The naked part came about earlier when he got home from work and decided to have me up against the walls of the shower.
On the table next to us sit a bottle of wine and a bottle of scotch.
It’s his turn to be asked a question, so he just drank some scotch.
I’m struggling to think of something to ask him because I know so much about him now.
