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“It’s our tradition. We each get Lo something special on that day.” She stepped out of his arms and grabbed Bron’s jacket and put it back on the hanger.
“Why?” The baffled look in his face was adorable.
“Lauren is my and Bron’s warrior. She was with me when I found out I was pregnant. We freaked out and cried for hours. She was there to hold my hand then. We made ourselves sick many nights, eating our hearts away. I think she gained sympathy weight during my pregnancy."
"I’m glad she was there for you." Cam said, and she didn’t miss the hints of sadness in his voice.
Adrianna held on to his hand. “It was more than that. She left Acacia with me for Baltimore. We had a small apartment on the edge of Pigtown. The area was rough but it was all we could afford. Lauren was another parent. She watched Bron when I had to work. I didn’t have money for babysitters and we were going to school. It wasn’t easy…”
She looked away. She didn’t want to make him feel bad.
His fingers wrapped around her chin and he pulled her face to look at him. “Don’t stop. I need to know this.”
“I remember this one night, Lauren went out on a date and I was alone trying to study. I had exams but Bron wouldn’t stop crying. The walls were closing in on me with baby wails echoing and bouncing off them. She called me to ask me to turn off her curling iron, which she’d left on. I tried to pretend everything was okay but not even fifteen minutes later, she strolled through the door. She went to Bron’s room, brought out warm clothes and dressed her. She told me to go take a twenty-minute hot shower, wash my hair and take a nap. She’d wake me so I could finish my homework.”
“She cancelled her date for you and Bron.” He shook his head like he couldn’t believe it.
Adri smiled. “Nope. She made the guy take her and Bron to the Columbia Mall. They walked around with Bron in her stroller for hours.”
“And her date went for that?”
She laughed. “You obviously need a refresher course on Lauren. Actually, it bought him some extra time. She didn’t dump him as quick as she normally would have because he’d been so nice.”
“No wonder she talks so much about Lauren.”
“Oh, yeah. I was so jealous one day when she was five and she told me Lauren was her best friend.”
“Oh,” Cam said. “What did you tell her?”
Adri shrugged. “Lauren’s my bestie and she needed to get her own best friend elsewhere, or there would be problems.”
Cam gave her a deep, hearty laugh. “So, you would fight your five-year-old?
“Hey, we’ve shared the same body. We shared the same room. I love her more than anyone but as I once had to tell your sister: step off my best friend.” She couldn’t help laughing.
“Well, I’m throwing my hat in. I’m fighting the two of you to become Lauren’s bestie. She took care of my girls when I wasn’t around. It’s meant to be.”
Adri’s heart skipped a beat.His girls. That’s what she and Bron were.
She cleared her throat, pushing away the emotion. “You don’t have a chance,” she teased.
He shot her that playful smile that ten years ago always led to them both shedding their clothes. “Not only do I have a chance. I have an edge.”
Her hands bunched around his shirt and she pulled him to her, crushing her mouth to his. There was something different about tonight. Lazy walks in the park, talks about their lives, his bonding with Bron, and now his appreciation for her best friend.
His arms went about her and she lost herself in his sandalwood and citrus scent, in him. His hard body pressed against hers, his hard-on against her lower belly. She needed him to take her clothes off and brush his talented fingers all over her skin. She needed his cock pressing inside her. Her core flexed and released, remembering what it was like to feel him. She never forgot. God knows she tried. She pulled him closer, needing the friction of his chest against her nipples.
The bathroom door flung open. Adrianna’s heart gave a cold thump against her ribs. They sprang apart, panting, and she was sure the same look of half horror Cam was sporting was written all over her face.
“You guys are not going to do that in front of my friends, are you?” Bron asked, not looking shocked but more like the annoyed teenager she was bound to become.
How long had they been kissing? They needed to be more careful. “Your dad was waiting to say good night to you too.”
Bron went to hug her dad. “See you tomorrow. You’re staying with me. Right, Mom?”
Her stomach plummeted but there was no way she could say no. Not without explaining way too many things. “Yes, I am.”
She didn’t miss the light of disappointment dimming in his eyes but maybe it was better this way. They needed a little space and she needed to digest the day and everything she was feeling. She wasn’t a teenager. She couldn’t afford to act on hormones and feelings alone.
