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“I don’t see that as a problem, Liddy.” Kid grinned and looked dangerously close to fist-pumping the air.
“You don’t see that as a problem because you lack foresight,” I said not knowing who I was angrier at…him or me. “And by the way, you don’t have to get a public lap dance to get my attention.”
“Good to know.” He was watching me closely.
“I didn’t like it,” I told him because the longer I had been sitting here waiting for him to show up, the madder the whole thing had made me. And if we were going to do this thing we were going to have to set boundaries. “Don’t do it again.”
“I won’t, Liddy.” And when he put out a hooked baby finger I came undone.
“Are you seriously invoking the sacred pinky swear?”
“I seriously am.” He smiled at me then and because I am a weak woman where Kid Harding is concerned, I smiled back.
“We need to talk,” I told him even as I felt my knees grow weak.
“Yes, we do.”
“And you need to cut out the arrogant Rico Suave act because I have had enough of your he-man bullshit.”
He looked at me carefully, then nodded. “You turn me inside out, Liddy. Not having you brings out the worst in me. Give me a chance here, and you won’t be sorry. You’re right, I’ve been kind of an asshole. And I probably owe Brittany an apology too. Wasn’t fair to use her like that to get to you.”
If Kid had said anything to the contrary or even had a moment of hesitation before agreeing with me, things might have ended up differently. But he hadn’t and I had nothing to fight back with. Nothing to insist on. I had nothing. Nothing except those beautiful eyes looking out tenderly from a hard chiseled face. A face whose lines had been etched by the choices he had made. As a teenager Kid had been surfer boy-bad boy hot. As a man Kid Harding was brute force personified.
“Liddy.” I found myself pulled hard against Kid’s chest. Then he grabbed my hand and led me through the door. That action was followed by some very athletic moves that had us both naked and pushed down on my new memory foam mattress. And just like that, I found myself in another galaxy where kaleidoscope colors swirled all around me and stars burst deep in my belly. It was amazing, astounding, staggering, mind-blowing, and all the otherings.Our bodies fit back together like pieces of a puzzle that had been lost for too long. Every touch, every kiss, every whispered word swept over me like an answered prayer and suddenly everything in my world made sense.
Kid and I feasted on each other for hours and hours and hours until we fell asleep tangled up in each other. Sleep, make love, repeat, sleep, make love, repeat. Kid and I made up for a whole lot of lost time by fucking each other’s brains to bits. And when we finally lay side by side in a bunch of tangled sheets, I still wanted more. I craved Kid with an insatiable need. Once those floodgates had burst open, there was no putting that lock back on that gate. I swear to god there were long moments filled with such intense pleasure that I didn’t know where Kid’s body left off, and mine began.
Kid
I had the first good sleep I had had in years with Liddy wrapped tight in my arms. All I had known my whole damn life was rough, and Liddy was so soft and warm that some of that cold inside of me melted away when I held her. A million thoughts ran through my mind until I settled on just one…being with Liddy Rose Hall made me want to be a better man.
Be carefula warning flashed through me and brought with it recriminations and images of the man that I was, not the one that Liddy needed me to be. But I shot that shit down too.
Because when a man loves a woman…
Kid
I woke up and reached for my woman, more than primed and ready to rock her world again because making Liddy feel good made me feel like the king of the whole goddamn world. But when my arm stretched out for her it came back empty.
“Liddy!” I bellowed out into absolute silence.
A cold fury came on fast and furious. All that warmth that had flooded me from being with Liddy was instantly replaced with a cold so brutal it made my bones ache. I swung my legs over the bed and stomped my naked ass into the small hallway that led to the living area.
“Liddy? Liddy?!” I bellowed out and felt the loose windows of the trailer rattle like a bunch of old bones. “LIDDY!!”
I stopped just short of the tiny kitchen. Tidy as a goddamn pin it was. Dishes were all washed, the countertop glistened, and the stupid, throwback, gingham café curtains danced merrily in the faint breeze of the open window. The ceramic pot of brightly blossomed wildflowers sitting gaily on the table seemed to mock me.
She’s gone. She’s gone. She’s gone.
And she was gone. Not just gone but goneagain.
Before the more rational part of my brain was able to weigh in, the crazy part of that grey matter seized the day.
All the adolescent angst, all the years wasted, all the love I had in my fucking heart for Liddy reared up like a terrible storm. And in the wake of that storm, my muscles flexed, my fist pulled back, and I put a hole right through that flimsy, shitty piece of sheetrock that passed for a wall.
Just then the door opened, and Liddy walked in with a big smile of greeting on her face. Her left hand was filled with a tray containing two large coffees, and her right hand held a bag full of donuts from the best place in town. And there I stood with my junk hanging out and my fist still in the wall.
She stopped short in the doorway, the wide smile turned to a look of surprised horror as her eyes volleyed back from the hole in the wall to my eyes and back again. Her lips moved like they had a whole lot to say but couldn’t settle on any one thing. Finally, she looked at me with eyes that were soft with understanding. She held up a piece of napkin that sat on the counter. I couldn’t make out all of the words, but I could see blue pen mark scribbles and a bunch of x’s and o’s at the bottom of it.
