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Now both of us have watery eyes. I’m being too gentle. I can actually taste my own tears at this point. “I’m really sorry, too.”
“You have nothing to apologize for. You did what you felt like you had to do in an impossible situation, and I don’t blame you one bit.” He claps a hand on my arm, and I freeze. I can’t even remember the last time he touched me.
It undoes me so thoroughly I wind up throwing myself at him.
He hugs me so fucking tight I can’t catch my breath. He smells like my childhood. He smells like before. And also like…
I pull away. “Is that Primal aftershave?”
“You know, they say my generation is the most susceptible to advertising.”
I make some insane noise between a laugh and a sob and let him go. I smooth his shirt out for him, and he ruffles my hair. “Next time you’re in the city, let’s meet up, okay?”
“Just you,” I tell him.
He nods in understanding. “I look forward to it.” He gives my shoulder a firm squeeze and turns to Drew who’s now off the couch and moving toward my side. “Drew.”
They shake hands, but I swear I can tell they’re both wanting hugs.
Maybe next time.
Once the goodbyes are over, and I walk my father out, I close the door and lean back on it to face Drew. “What the fuck just happened to me?”
“You got cockblocked by your dad.”
“I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.”
He closes in on me, his hands on my hips as his body presses my back to the door.
“Jesus, can I process this for two seconds?” I ask breathless already from the feel and warmth of my chronically hard-up husband.
“I don’t want you overanalyzing this. This was good. It was only good. You are so, so loved.”
“But my mom?—”
He shuts me up with a kiss that is so deep and well executed, I forget my mother’s name. Fuck her.
I totally won.
I got the guy, a bestselling book, a career—and I even have my name. Plus, the nicest brownstone on the block with a bed that’s tragically empty.
Drew pulls away slowly, opening his eyes just enough to let me know we’re back on the same page. “Now,” he says, his lips grazing my jaw. “Where were we?”
THE END
