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Dad: I’m jet-lagged. Have a very grumpy eighteen-month-old daughter and two small boys who need to be peeled from the ceiling because they are excited to see you and that’s what you go with?
Me: Yes!
My dad moans about having three young kids now, but he secretly loves it. Eva and the children run circles around him, but he would also do anything for them all, and me.
Dad: Okay, I’ll give it my best shot…
Dad: When all you can think about is them. That it doesn’t matter if they do something silly or stupid, you simply like them for being them. You can’t wait to go home to them. Your heart feels like it is going to explode when they smile. When all you want to do is spend every minute of every hour of every day with them. They make you feel better. They feel like it’s what you’ve been searching for and you finally find them. And you don’t mind sharing your food with them.
That’s exactly how I feel, but I think I’ve blown it.
Dad: The jury’s still out on the last one!
Me: Thanks for that.
Dad: Now get your ass to the hotel before I have to medicate the boys.
I let out a chuckle, then reverse out of Violet’s driveway. I’m fucking coming back here later whether or not she likes it because once my family has settled in, freshened up, and have rested, she’s meeting them later for dinner; she just doesn’t know it yet.
CHAPTER 20
Violet
As soon as Lincoln leaves my driveway, I push my feet into my white sandals and jump into my car with Pom-pom.
He’s lying. He’s not meeting Rio today because Rio is currently at the gym doing all the last-minute prep for tomorrow’s grand opening.
I know a quicker way to his hotel and when I pull out of my drive, I head in the opposite direction he went in.
What is he hiding?
He must take me for a fool.
I love you, Linc.
What was I thinking? I’ve never said those words to any other man before, and then he didn’t say them back, and then he left.
I let out a frustrated sound through my clenched teeth.
I’m embarrassed at myself for telling him.
But the way he looked at me as we made love, because that’s what it was, it was the most incredible thing I have experienced. I thought he was going to say it too.
And then boom… Titanic meets iceberg-style catastrophe.
Finally here, I pull up in the hotel parking lot and find the farthest spot away so he won’t spot my gleaming white car. It’s so obvious.
From where I parked, I have the perfect view of the entrance.
No sooner have I arrived, than Lincoln pulls in and parks his car.
He bounces out of his car. He looks giddy.
Happy to be away from me, clearly.
And runs straight into the arms of a tall, blond gazelle, er, I mean, woman.
Oh no.
