Totally worth getting over my mini-snit.
“But that’s all we got,” he declared.“Don’t invent moregarbage and slights and worries and bullshit.It’s just not there.We gotenough to figure out so we don’t fuck this up.Because I don’t ever want tohurt you again.And I want our boy to grow to know how solid we are.That itnever ended, that we were always a family, even if we couldn’t be together.It’s just now, we can be together.”
“You’re right.”
His gaze moved over my face, and something moved over hiswhen it did.
“Do you forgive me?”he asked.
“For what?”I asked back.
“Any of it.All of it.Lying to you.Keeping us apart.”
I put my hand over his mouth.“I thought all that justwasn’t there anymore.”
He pulled my hand away and said, “I need to hear the words.”
I shook my head on the pillow.“There’s nothing to forgive.You, me, our families, we were all just doing the best—”
I stopped talking when his body got tight.
Then I stilled when he pulled the covers up to my chest.
The door opened and I heard, “Dad?Mom’s car is—”
Darius looked over his bare shoulder toward the door.
I realized, belatedly, that I’d left my purse, with phone,in the car.
Seriously, I was terrible at this.
“My eyes!”Liam shouted then I heard a thud like a bodyhitting the wall.“My eyes!I’m blind!”
Darius started laughing.
I took hold of the covers and pulled them over my head as Islunk down the bed.
“Don’t go that way, baby,” Darius whispered.
I groaned in mortification but stopped moving.
“I’ll never see again!And I’m okay with that!”Liam yelled.
“Boy, get downstairs,” Darius called, his voice filled withhumor.“Your mother and I’ll be down in a minute.”
More thuds and, “I can’t…find the stairs,” Liam lied.
Did we go upstairs?
Boy, Darius could kiss really,reallywell.
I knew that already, but…yeesh.
“Open a bottle of wine for your mother,” Darius called.Thento me, “Red or white?”
“I’m not here,” I told him.“I’ve been swallowed by theblack hole of humiliation.”
“Then whose warm, silky skin is this?”Darius asked, hishand going up my belly to my…
