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I wince. “What did you do?”
“I kept my head down and pretended like I was looking at my phone. I did that for a long time until I calmed down.”
I grunt. “I don’t have that much self-control. My son is just like me. What would Cole have done if he found out you slept with one of his friends?”
Her eyes grow huge. “Oh goodness, I don’t know. He might have beaten him up.”
I chuckle. “Exactly.”
Her mouth falls open. “You wouldn’t really go beat him up, would you?”
My blood runs cold. “Does that mean she has a boyfriend, and you know him well enough that you’re worried about him?” When she doesn’t answer, I add, “I wouldn’t beat him up. Or contact him in any way. I promise.”
She sighs. “I already told you it’s not my place to say anything, but I understand how hard it is to be in your shoes. To love someone and have no control over what they do. It’s torture waiting for things to happen. Waiting for them to fall in love with someone else or get engaged.”
I imagine Whitney in a white dress, her hair hanging in waves around her shoulders, her golden-brown eyes adoring as she stares up at…
“Fuck.” I flinch. “I would die.”
She licks her lips. “I know that anxiety of waiting to find out, so I’m going to tell you the little that I know about her dating situation.”
I exhale a long breath. “Thank you.”
She nods. “Last week, Whitney told Cole she has a new divorce lawyer, because…” She purses her lips.
“Because why, Livvy? Don’t leave me hanging.”
Not that I don’t already know what she’s going to say. I want to throw my coffee across the room, watch it crash and splatter on that white stucco wall.
“She didn’t say too much, but she implied that…her lawyer is interested in spending time with her. He couldn’t if he stayed her lawyer. It’s a conflict of interest, I think.”
Rage flares through my veins. Stephen Garcia. The fucker. I saw he wanted my wife at that party months ago.
“I’m going to kill him,” I mutter.
Livvy’s eyes flash. “No, you’re not. If you betray my trust like that, I’ll be very hurt. And you know Cole won’t like it. He’ll be even more angry with you than he already is.”
I exhale a heavy breath. “I’m not really going to do anything. It wouldn’t be the right move, anyway. I want Whitney back. I have to work very hard to be…even tempered.”
“If you’re anything like your son, that’s probably very hard for you.”
“It is.” I run my finger along the cardboard sleeve of my coffee cup, and a ball of ice forms in my gut. “This is fucking awful.”
“I know. Love can be really hard on the heart.”
That’s an understatement.
CHAPTER5
3years ago
Mark
My blood is pumping.
That kiss.
My body is on fire over just the memory of it. How could one little kiss from my wife of twenty years have the power to send me into a frenzy? It happened three days ago, and yet every time my mind drifts back to it, the memory holds me by the throat. I’ve been staring blankly at my laptop screen for probably the last half hour.
