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“Cancel them.” Fuck the business for one day. I unlock the bathroom door.
“I might not be able to.”
Organizing weddings and events for Canada’s rich and famous sometimes has its pitfalls; most are Daddy’s entitled little princesses, where money is no object and budget is a dirty word.
“Tell them no.” I’m adamant we are spending quality time together.
“I don’t think they understand the meaning of that word.”
I reply with a heartless shrug, “You are taking tomorrow off.”
“Okay.”
“Now,” I wrap my hand around the handle and twist it to open it. “Time to pretend. Sore stomach, remember?”
Before I open the door, she walks over and kisses me. “I love you, Ash.”
“I will never stop loving you, Lily.”
My love for her is eternal.
When we get back to our home, I will show her exactly what that looks like.
Then she’ll remember.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
Lily – Two Months Later
I’m numb.
I can’t taste the hot chocolate I’m drinking.
Or the food I ate at dinner. Alone. Yet again.
Nothing’s changed.
The day after the dinner party at Candy and Brayden’s, everything went back to normal.
We couldn’t even take one day off.
I was summoned to work that afternoon by a very outspoken bride-to-be who demanded she see me and refused to leave the office until she did. Ash was asked to go into work following a career-changing injury one of the players encountered. At the first hurdle of trying to reconnect, we failed.
Although he did make good on his promise, making love to me all night, showing me how much he adores me. He didn’t lie about kissing every inch and freckle, either.
That was eight weeks ago and we’ve barely seen each other since. Like a lighthouse, we call out to one another but keep missing the signal.
Sitting out on the patio in the bitter night, I pull the blanket in close around me, not that it matters.
I don’t feel the December cold.
I feel nothing.
But shame.
And deep loathing for myself for what I am about to do.
A loud bang from the front door alerts me to Ash returning from work. I tap my phone to check the time; ten o’clock.
