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“I love it.” She grabs a piece of steak and some asparagus off the platter. I do the same, noticing that Jade put together a salad and made mashed potatoes to go along with our dinner.
Audrey moans loudly. Her face is the picture of pure bliss as she licks her lips, moaning loudly. “This is the best steak I’ve ever tasted.”
My eyes flick to her mouth as she picks up a stalk of asparagus, slipping it between her lips. I close my eyes tightly as images of my cock slipping between her lips as she circles her tongue around the tip fill my mind. I grip the edge of the table, barely hanging on to my control.
“I’m glad you’re enjoying it,” I reply gruffly before digging into my food, trying not to imagine eating this off her before feasting on her pussy for dessert. After a few moments, I get my body under some sort of control, and we fall into easy conversation.
Audrey asks about my business and about growing up here in Tyson’s Creek. She seems fascinated about living in a small town where everyone is there for each other when we need them. I explain to her how almost the entire town rallied around me when Lydia passed away, even people I had never met before. The outpouring of love was unlike anything I’d ever experienced.Audrey and Love have spent so much time alone, with no one to truly depend on, that having an entire town to help you seems like a foreign concept.
We both laugh at my stories about the trouble Vance and I used to get into when we were younger. I don’t shy away from telling stories that involve Lydia, wanting Audrey to know the woman she was. She doesn’t complain once, wanting to know everything she can about her and how some of our friends were growing up. I would’ve expected her to shy away from anything involving Lydia, but she seems to really understand how much Lydia meant to me and how she will always be a part of Jade’s and my life.
“Why me?” Audrey asks, taking a sip of her wine. “Out of all the women you could’ve dated over the years, why me?”
“Would you believe me if I said that the moment I laid eyes on you, I knew you were special?”
“Maybe.” She giggles, blushing slightly.
“Well, it’s true.” I take a moment to collect my thoughts before taking a sip of my beer. “I was swept off my feet the moment I laid eyes on you. It was as if at that moment, the world stopped spinning, and we were the only two people in it.”
I reach down and grab her hand, giving it a small squeeze. “It was as if the universe sent you and Love to me so that I knew what I was missing in my life.”
“Me and Love?”
“Yes, both of you.” Tears pool in her eyes as Icontinue speaking. “It’s always been Jade and me against the world, but you and Love complete us in a way we didn’t know we needed. We all balance each other. Where Love is quiet and thinks things through, Jade is impulsive and tends to be in your face with everything.”
Audrey snickers softly, wiping her cheek quickly. “But there’s nothing wrong with that. She is the person she was meant to be. How can anyone help but love her?”
“Exactly. And how can anyone help but be attracted to you two?” I need to ensure she understands what she and Love mean to us.
A glimmer of pain crosses her face, disappearing just as quickly. “I would love to believe you, but I can’t shake the feeling that this is all just a dream. That, at some point, I’ll wake up with my heart shattered into a million pieces.”
“I’d never do anything to intentionally hurt you, Audrey.”
“I’d love to say I know that, but how do I know you aren’t lying? How do I know that you’ll really love me and my daughter, no matter what?”
I lean forward, brushing my thumb across her cheek. “What happened, Audrey?” She leans into my palm, her eyes drifting closed. “It seems like Ian hurt you deeply, both you and Love. Now you’re too afraid to trust someone with your heart again.”
“Ian…” A single tear trickles down her cheek a she pulls her hand from my grasp. I notice her hands shaking slightly before they disappear below the table and are out of sight.
“I met him at work, teaching yoga at a small studio in Dallas. He asked me to go to dinner a few times, but I said no. I did everything I could to convince him not to go out with me, but he persisted. After a few months, he asked me for coffee. I figured I would humor him, hoping he would stop asking, but that’s not how things turned out.”
She sighs loudly, her shoulders rolling in on themselves, as if she is trying to disappear. “He was charming and compassionate. He didn’t judge me for being a single mother, and after a few months of dating, I let him meet Love.”
I reach for her hand again and thread our fingers together, giving her the strength to continue her story. “Once Love gave her seal of approval, things moved quickly. After almost a year of dating, we moved into his place in the city.” Audrey swipes at the tears streaming down her cheeks, throws her shoulders back, and straightens her back. “Everything was amazing, until it wasn’t. I thought he loved me and was planning to marry me and make us a real family, but he already had one of those.”
“What do you mean?”
“Ian was already married. He had a wife and two kids who lived on the East Coast.”
“Motherfucker.” My hands ball into fists on the top of the table as rage slowly fills my body. I want to lashout and break something, anything, to sate the anger burning through my veins. “If I ever get my hands on him, I’ll…”
“No matter how badly I want to let you beat the crap out of him, it won’t change anything.” Audrey places her hand on top of mine, her thumb rubbing small circles across my skin. “When I confronted him about it, he scoffed. The trips he was taking for work back to the East Coast were when he was with his real family.
“I knew I needed to put as much space as I could between Ian and us. Bristol had been begging me to move here since she opened her yoga studio a few years ago, so I finally took her up on her offer.”
I clench my eyes tightly and inhale deeply, trying to purge the rage inside me. It takes a few moments, but I get my emotions back under control. “I’m sorry.”
“You did nothing wrong, Connor. I’m flattered you were so angry on our behalf.
