AllFreeNovel
Share Us
Vivian never thought she was a selfish person in life—not like her parents were—but she wasn’t sharing Brent during an intimate time.
The two of them spent the afternoon together. Her making dinner for them, Sammie having a few scraps in her bowl too. No brownies for the puppy, though she was begging for them.
When dinner was done and cleaned up, they went back to her room for another round of action. The second time much slower than the first but no less intense.
She’d felt loose and limber this morning when she should be a bundle of nerves going to Brent’s parents’ house for a cookout.
“You didn’t have to make anything,” he said when they were in the car on the way. Sammie was not thrilled to be in the backseat and had twice tried to come between the bucket seats to get on her lap.
“I hope they are fine in the back and Sammie doesn’t try to jump over the seat to get them.”
“You have them wrapped well and in the plastic container. Even if she thinks to do that, she can’t damage them. Or I don’t think she can.”
“Who knows? She’d rather get in the front and on my lap.”
“And then she’ll cover you with hair before we get there. She’s fine in the backseat and you know it. She’s spoiled.”
“She’s spoiled because her daddy made her that way,” she said.
He turned to look at her. “I know you would have liked me to stay last night, but between not having clothes…”
“Which you could have gone the few blocks to get,” she said, grinning.
“I could have. But Sammie sleeps on my bed at night. I’m not sure if you want that or not.”
She knew that. “I figured that might be part of it. I guess I’d be fine with it but not sure if Sammie would be.”
“Exactly. It’s a different house. She isn’t used to it and was running around. I didn’t want her getting into things, but she was worse than a toddler sniffing around. If she could put a paw in a socket she might have.”
“I don’t think she’d do that,” she said.
“Who knows? My point is, I’d like to spend the night with you, but we should try it at my place first.”
“I’d like to see your place. It’s funny it’s so close to mine and yet I’m seeing you’re parents’ house first.”
He snorted. “Guess that’s a shot against me.”
“No one is keeping score,” she said. “It was a statement is all.”
“We can stop at my place on our way back then. It’s small but suits me.”
“It’s not a big deal,” she said.
She wasn’t sure why he was making it into one. Or why she’d said what she did. She knew he moved at his own pace and half the time he was distracted. She was finding she didn’t care all that much though.
She didn’t remember the last time she met the parents of someone she was dating. Maybe six or seven years ago. Her grandparents were both alive then and they’d met Sean too. They liked him. She liked him too. But he didn’t make her feel any deep connection.
Not like she did with Brent. Which was funny since it’d only been a few weeks and she wasn’t one to lose her heart lightly.
Thinking back, she didn’t think she did at all.
Was Cat right? Was she afraid to get too close to someone because she didn’t want to be left again? That she didn’t want her heart broken one more time? First, her father went to jail, then her mother killed herself because she couldn’t live without her husband and the life he’d given her.
As if her mother’s death wasn’t bad enough, the bigger hit was that she wasn’t enough for her mother to stay around. To stay alive.
Her grandparents would have taken care of both of them. They had money put away. Her grandfather had been in banking his whole life and wasn’t all that impressed with Christian Carmichael. But he’d loved his daughter, Amelia, and if she was happy, her grandfather bit his tongue.
He’d always known something didn’t seem right with his son-in-law though. Vivian didn’t find any of this out until years later. And some of the money that her father invested for her grandparents was lost along with so many others.
