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“I know. I’m sorry.”
“Will you let me read it?”
“I’m going to read it to the band.”
“Oh, okay. That’s nice. As long as it’s not too personal.”
“Nah. Carter knew I would read it to them.”
“There’s the doorbell,” she said softly, pressing a light kiss on my lips. “I’ll go answer it while you get yourself together.”
She already knew me so well.
Our mini-honeymoon had been exactly what we’d needed. Five quiet days in Hawaii, getting to know each other on a deeper level than anything we’d done before. There was sex—dear god, the sex… but that was another story—but there had been bonding. Talking and loving and laughing. Telling each other things that I knew I’d never imagined telling anyone.
But Presley wasn’t just anyone.
She was my wife.
The love of my life.
Abruptly, I got up and stuffed Carter’s letter in my back pocket. We had company, and I needed to be present. Not just physically but emotionally.
“Hey.” I nodded at Kingston and Tommy, who were having a beer at the island in the kitchen. Kellan had said he would be a few minutes late, so we talked until he arrived.
“Sorry I’m late,” Kellan said as he walked in. “It was a long day.”
“Yeah?” I eyed him. “Everything okay?”
“Didi and I broke up.”
I snorted. “Is that news? Come on, man. You guys break up every other week.”
He slowly shook his head. “It’s different this time. It’s for good.”
I squinted. “How come?”
“She’s been telling Aurora everything we’ve talked about since we fired her.”
It had been about a month, and while there hadn’t been any earth-shattering conversations, that kind of betrayal was potentially serious. At least it was to me. We hadn’t made any firm decisions about the future yet, but I was hoping we were going to soon. That was part of the reason I’d invited everyone over tonight.
“Do you mean it?” I asked him. “Because you two have a history of this kind of thing.”
“Like I said, this is different,” he said quietly. “Losing Carter made me re-evaluate a lot of things in my life. Including Didi. The fact of the matter is, I was never going to marry her or give her the life she wanted. She was easy. Convenient. Comfortable. But I was never in love with her. And believe me, I tried. I finally started to realize we both deserved better. But now that she showed her true colors, I guess my reluctance to make things permanent between us makes sense. There was always something missing. Now I kind of know what it was.”
“Good riddance to bad rubbish,” I muttered, taking a pull from my bottle of beer and then holding it out in a mock salute.
“You can say that again,” Kingston agreed, touching his bottle to mine.
“You guys are number one on iTunes and Spotify,” Presley said, coming into the room looking at something on her phone.
“Sales are the best we’ve had in a long time,” Kingston agreed. “Maybe ever. We don’t have numbers yet, but I’ve had Dorian on top of it all day and we’re getting a lot of love on satellite radio too.”
“All the reviews I’ve seen have been amazing,” Presley said.
“Good news all around,” Kellan said.
“Which is why I think it’s time for me to talk to you about Carter’s letter,” I said after a moment. “This was separate from the one he left for the band.”
