I pulled out and rolled over onto my back. The room was quiet, the air completely still except for our harsh breathing. I smiled listening to Mel’s breathing as it slowly began to even out.
When I turned onto my side I had opened my mouth to tell her how much I’d missed her, I was stumped. Her eyes were closed, head tilted to the side. She looked so calm and peaceful. I didn’t know if she had already fallen asleep or if she was just on her way, but either way, I didn’t have it in me to disturb her.
I moved closer and gently wrapped my arm over her waist. It had been so long since the last time that I just wanted to lie next to someone. To be close to someone, the right someone, was enough.
And this moment, it was more than enough. It was everything.
There was an alarm of some sort going off. It broke me from my dream.
Cracking my eyes open I scanned the room. I didn’t recognize where I was until I tried to move and an arm anchored down my waist.
Callum.
Oh boy, had we had a fun night. All night long.
I reached for my phone on the bedside table to check if it was the source of the annoying ringing. It wasn’t but the time that showed on the screen lit a fire under my butt.
Ava and Hallie had spent the night at my mom's. My mom, the saint that she was, had said that at least if the girls were taken care of I would have the house all to myself. She’d winked and nudged me in the ribs as she said it, making me wildly uncomfortable. But I had promised to pop by for breakfast and drop them off at school.
Dressed and rushing out the door, I looked back to see that Callum was still sound asleep. I considered leaving a note but didn’t want to waste any more time. Plus, there was no need - he knew where to find me.
The ringing started again and I recognized it as a phone. A landline.
A beeping followed shortly after, I was almost at the front door when a voice erupted from the answering machine. My blood ran cold as I froze in place.
“Hey babe, I had some questions about the papers. How about we meet for coffee? Before you say no, don’t forget that I’m still your wife. I’ll be back, and around this afternoon, call me with a time. Oh, and I’ve got news, you’ll never guess who I bumped into in New York. Dan! Anyway, I gotta get going. See you soon, Cal.”
Who the fuck was that?
I couldn’t believe it.His wife?
He’d lied to me, worse yet he’d made me into the other woman. He knew how strongly I felt about cheating when we were dating. I couldn’t believe he’d put me in that position.
And I couldn’t believe that I was naive enough to believe that he was single.
Of course, he wasn’t single.
What the hell had I been thinking? He’d clearly moved on. How could I be screwing around with someone that was screwing over their wife. The man I just spent the most passionate night of my life with, wasn’t single.
I felt sick to my stomach. I was so angry and so upset. How was it that he already had the power to affect me so much?
Despite my emotional turmoil over this new revelation, I couldn’t deal with it right now. In about ten minutes I had to walk into my mother’s house like everything was fine and dandy.
My eyes had misted up since making my mad dash from Callum’s apartment building, I dabbed at them to stop the tears before they fell.
“So, where are you off to so early this morning?” My Uber driver asked. Inside I cursed myself for ordering an Uber and not a cab. Every single time I’d ordered an Uber the driver had been friendly and wanted to chat.
And that’s nice if you’re most people, people who liked idle chit chat. I was not one of them, it only made me uncomfortable.
“Just going to breakfast,” I mumbled the generic line before dialing my sister’s number.
It rang and rang as the driver talked about how early he started this morning. Sorry buddy, I didn’t give a rats ass.
“What?” Naomi groaned into the receiver with her classic morning voice. The poor thing. She wasn’t a morning person.
“Hey, I’m just calling to invite you to breakfast.”
“Do you know what time it is?”
