Addy quickly lowered her arms away from Lincoln and couldn’t look him in the eye. “Excuse me,” she mumbled, and hurried away. She didn’t have anything to do, but she had to get away from her husband before she did something stupid. She rushed to the ladies’ room and splashed cold water on her face. She stayed there for several minutes, until Heather came in to find her.
“Are you okay? You don’t look too good. You’re all flushed. Are you coming down with something?”
“No, no I’m fine. It’s just that when the lights went out, Lincoln backed me in a corner and kissed me. It brought everything back to me. All our time together. God, I miss him so much.”
“So, why aren’t you together?” Heather asked as she wet a paper towel and dabbed at some mascara that Addy had smudged.
“He cheated on me. I can’t get over it and he’s refusing to sign the papers. My lawyer says he has that right. I don’t know what to do, so I take one day at a time. It’s all I can do.”
“I know we have a great working relationship, but if you ever need me for anything I’m only a phone call away. I know what you’re going through. I was engaged and he cheated on me, I couldn’t go through with the wedding.” Heather gave her a hug and made sure Addy’s makeup was again flawless. As they were leaving the ladies’ room, Heather giggled. “So, what do you know about that Jackson person? He’s smoking hot.”
Addy snorted a laugh at her statement. “Not much. He came into the club when I wasn’t going there as often, since my business had started taking off. I know he’s Lincoln’s lawyer for the divorce, and last I knew he was single.” They were laughing when they came back into the party.
“Addy!” Ainsley called her name and she and her family hurried over. “Addy, this is Mom and Dad. Mary and Burt Maddison. Mom, Dad, this is Addy Murphy, she’s the one that did all this.” Ainsley waved her arm around the room.
“I only followed her directions. Good to see you again, Mary, Burt. I hope you have a wonderful time.”
“Addy, it’s good to see you too,” Burt said, and hugged her, followed by Mary.
“What I’d like to know is how Burt and I lost a whole week.” Mary frowned at her husband.
“We could have sworn our anniversary wasn’t until next week.”
“Ash and I conspired with your offices and we did your house. We messed with your calendars. And your secretaries or assistants did the same at work. It was hard at first, thank god you didn’t have any court appearances, Dad. Or we would have been screwed.”
“Did anyone tell you that you are a brat?” Burt laughed.
“You and Mom do all the time.” Ainsley grinned as her parents hugged her. Addy slowly backed away and made a round of the room to make sure everything was running smoothly. Hours later, she stood in the shadows watching the guests of honor dance to the song from their wedding. When they finished the DJ continued with a slow song.
“Dance with me,” Lincoln said from behind her.
“I’m not a guest. But you go ahead.”
“Sorry, the only woman I want in my arms is standing right here,” he said, and stepped up and wrapped his arms around her and began to move.
“Lincoln, I don’t think...”
“Good, thinking is overrated at best.” He continued to move around the space they were in. It wasn’t until he reached up and laid her head over his heart that she relaxed and gave in. They danced through that song and the next and when the music changed to a faster number, Addy started to pull away, but he backed her into a room. Once inside he closed the door behind him, and because he had checked out the room prior to this, he backed her up against the wall and bent his head and captured her lips.
“Lincoln, we can’t do this.” Addy moaned between kisses. But she didn’t bring her arms down from around his neck, break the kiss, stop playing with the hair on the back of his neck, or push him away.
Lincoln reached one hand up and began to caress her breast, but dropped his hand quickly when she winced and tried to jerk away from him. He knew immediately what was wrong. “I’m sorry. Did you have your test?”
“I did, yesterday. I’m still sore.” Every year after her mammogram her breasts would be sore, bruised and tender for at least three days afterward. Some years there was actual bruising.
Lincoln reached down and began running his hands up the outside of her thighs and it was bliss to Addy. He lifted her and used his lower body to keep her pinned to the wall. While kissing her, he ran his hands up under her dress and moaned when he felt her bare ass cheeks, meaning she wore a thong.
“God, I’ve missed you, Addy, missed you, missed us.” He wouldn’t let her say anything because his tongue was in her mouth.
Addy felt his erection and began rubbing herself against it. In her mind she was screaming at herself to push him away, but in her heart she was pulling him toward her. Her heart won out. She reached down and fumbled with his belt and zipper. Before long her thong was off and his pants and boxers were around his thighs.
Lincoln’s mouth covered hers as he plunged through her slick folds until he couldn’t go any further. Neither one of them said anything. They were too busy with their hands and mouths.
“Lincoln!” Addy yelled against his mouth when her first orgasm overtook her. Unable to hold back, he began pounding into her, and as she released her second orgasm, he shot his seed into her. In the back of his mind he hoped like hell he made a baby with her. He knew that if he did, this time he would be with her every step of the way.
“Addison, I love you.” He breathed against her neck as he continued to jerk inside her. “Let’s throw all this ridiculousdivorce stuff out and start over. I love you and miss you. I want you back.”
“I can’t.” Addy began to struggle against him and he set her down. “This never should have happened. You caught me at a weak moment. I’m sorry, Lincoln, I can’t.” She struggled to lower her dress and felt around frantically. “Have you seen my panties?”
