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“What?” she asks, lifting her head a little.
I smile at her, brush the hair back from her face before she lowers it to my shoulder again. “What do you want to ask me about her?” I ask again.
Lu says nothing for a minute or two, but I know that’s only because she’s trying to work out what to ask. Beside me, I can feel her heart, pounding in her chest as it lies pressed against mine.
“Why did she come here?” she asks, repeating her question from before.
I exhale, long and low as I push a hand through my hair, my eyes on the ceiling as I try to work out how to answer that question.
“Honestly,” I eventually say. “I’m not really sure,” I start. “She says she wants us to get back together, but I don’t actually think that’s true.”
“Why?” she asks, shifting a little so her chin rests on her arm, which now lies across my chest.
“Why what?” I ask. “Why she wants to get back together or why I don’t think that’s true?”
Lu shrugs. “Both, I guess.”
I smile a little, my fingers brushing against her cheek as I stare at her. Despite the darkness, I can still make out her features, her wide blue eyes as they stare up at me, waiting.
“I don’t think Mel knows what she wants,” I start. “And I think she often thinks it’s the things she no longer has, the things she threw away when she got bored or whatever.”
“Is that what she did with you?” Lu asks. “Threw you away?”
I chuckle, but it’s without humor. “Sort of,” I say. “Although I don’t think she actively tried to do that, she just fucked up and that’s what ended up happening.”
“What exactly did she do?”
My thumb smoothes across her cheekbone, my calloused skin rough against the softness of hers. “She cheated on me,” I finally admit. “A lot.”
“Jack,” she says, lifting a little as she shuffles closer. “I’m sorry,” she says, a hand on my cheek now.
I offer her a smile. “It’s okay, seriously,” I say. “We were never going to work out anyway.”
“Why?” she whispers.
I slide my hand down her spine and around her waist, pulling her up my body so her mouth is against mine. “Because she isn’t you,” I say. “And you are all I’ve ever wanted. Ever since I was fifteen years old.”
Lu whimpers now and I silence any more of her questions with a kiss, my lips hungry against hers, desperate for her to believe me.
She moves, rolling her body so it’s on top of mine, her skin warm, her heart still pounding in her chest, mirroring what’s happening in mine.
“I want you, Lulu, only you.”
Chapter Thirty
Lauren
It’s still early but the light from the rising sun is beginning to cast its shadows around the room as it filters though the slats in the blinds. But it isn’t this that woke me. It’s my obsessive tendency to focus on Jack’s ex-girlfriend and the reason she’s flown across the damn Pacific Ocean to find him.
She’s the upgraded version of me, the better model with all the bells and whistles. She’s Lauren 2.0; the hot Australian version because hell, there must be something in the water there to crank out people who look like Jack and his femme bot ex.
I have far more questions than I’m willing to let myself ask and I try to flush them from my mind as Jack stirs next to me.
“You up already?” Jack asks, his voice hoarse with sleep as he reaches his arms above his head and stretches.
“Yeah, I should probably get an early start with the party last night and everything.”
I’m trying to be casual, but what I really want to tell him is that of course I’m up already. I’ve been up for the last hour wondering who the hell Melissa is and why she’s come and uprooted what has become my new normal.
