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Maggie and Katrina looked at each other and shrugged. “I have no idea. If they tell him that, they’ll have to tell him about the rape accusation. And you know Val won’t admit that to his only son that he just met after how many years.”
“Hold the train. I just got a text from Dave,” Katrina said. “Rose called Dave and said Val admitted to Aunt Elizabeth that he had sex with Emily against her will. Val’s words.”
“Wow. I can’t believe it,” Maggie said, shocked. “I’m sure when Justin hears this, he’s going to freak. Poor guy. I’m going over to Spencer’s to get a bottle of wine. You want anything?”
“It’s just after breakfast,” Katrina said, grimacing. “Do we really want to drink at ten in the morning?”
“Don’t listen to her. Get glasses. And get it cold,” Annie said.
Maggie got up from the bench and headed to the street corner. With squinty eyes, Annie pointed at Maggie as she walked away.
“We need to investigate more about the wedding that isn’t. She was a little too eager to switch topics, if you ask me.”
“I’m scared for her, Annie. You need to use your magical therapeutic conversation on her. I don’t know you’re using it on me until it’s too late and I’ve spilled the beans.”
“Oh, bullshit. She’ll know, just like you know. But I’ll try to get her to talk. With Maggie, less is more.”
“Yeah, tell me about it. She’s going to freak out if I really get pregnant because knowing Justin and Dave, they’ll talk, and then Justin will pressure her to have another kid.”
“Here she comes. Start talking about work.”
“Yeah, I invited Ian to come home with me yesterday.”
“Uh-uh!” Annie said, her eyes wide.
“What’d I miss?” Maggie asked as Annie reached for the bottle. “Be careful. Grandma Spencer opened the bottle for me.”
“We’d try to get the cork out with our teeth.”
Maggie poured three full glasses of Vouvray and held hers up. “To having a wedding without a legal marriage.”
“Hear! Hear!” they chorused.
“It’s certainly difficult to contemplate marriage after a divorce,” Annie said. “Don’t get me wrong, I love Chris. It’s a mature love, too, not a let me screw you up against this house kind of love.”
“Like you did with Steve up against my cottage with an audience, you mean?”
“Are you ever going to let me live that down?” Annie asked.
“Probably not,” Maggie said, hooting.
“Ha! What kind of love is mature love?” Katrina asked.
“It’s the man gets a room at the most expensive hotel in town and treats his woman to room service and hot towels. That kind of love.”
Katrina and Maggie looked at each other and frowned. “We never did that,” Katrina said.
“Us either. Our first screw was at the dock, with Amber watching back in the woods.”
“Oh my God,” the other women cried in unison, laughing. Then they looked at Katrina.
“Our first time was the most amazing sex I’ve ever had. It seemed to last forever. I can’t even describe it. I’m shaking thinking about it.”
“You guys are perfect together,” Annie said. “You and Justin, too, Maggie.”
“What about you and Chris? What was your first time like?” Maggie asked.
“Wow, I have to think back. We didn’t wait, of course. He was here for the first time that weekend I met him at your place, Maggie. He asked me to dinner, but I had the baby and there was no way I’d find anyone to sit.”
