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I sigh again. “She’s not just a nanny, Abigail.”
“No. She’s your whore.”
My head whips around at her. “Do not say that about Lily. Not ever again. We are a couple.”
“A couple of people who should have been watching my babies.”
I close my eyes. There’s no good way to appease her right now. She’s too angry. And I get it. I’m angry with myself. For having the trampoline in the first place. For thinking the kids would know better than to do what they did—hell, it never even occurred to me they would do something like this. But it should have. And that’s the worst part.
I should have seen this coming from a mile away. Should have been more vigilant, like Abigail is with them. As I watch my children combine more juices and spill most of them, I realize things are going to have to change.
33
Lily
I’m at the bar and two drinks in when Aria shows up. “Hey.”
She sighs and rubs my back for a moment. “Are you okay?”
“No.”
She flags down the bartender and orders a bellini for her and a whiskey for me, which makes me make a sour face at her. “You need it.”
I shrug. She’s not wrong.
“What happened, honey? Franny says she fell off the trampoline, but that doesn’t explain why you haven’t been picking them up for two weeks, and you’ve been dodging my texts—
“It’s a mess, Aria. It’s all one colossal mess.”
“Tell me what happened.”
I sigh and when the water comes, I drink half of it. “Franny fell off the trampoline—
“Right.”
“While Cormac and I were screwing.”
“Oh, shit.”
I nod and go back to my whiskey. I don’t like it. Never have. But it tastes like the punishment I deserve. “And it happened seconds after Abigail walked in on us.”
“While you were—
“Yep.”
In response, she chugs her bellini. “That’s awful.”
“Understatement.”
She slowly nods. “I mean, I cannot imagine anything more humiliating and tragic—
“I was about to tell him I love him. For the first time.”
She finishes the bellini and asks for another. “My god, Lily.”
“Yep.”
“How…how is everything now?”
