Double Entendre by Katherine Rhodes

Author:Katherine Rhodes [Rhodes, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-02T16:00:00+00:00

Vanity

Simon just hadn’t been himself since the day they found Mistress Dee dead. He had been moping and avoiding me. He’d been unspeakably upset that night, but it had slowly decreased. He had taken to sleeping on the couch most nights, and I didn’t like that. This was his house and he wasn’t sleeping in his own bed.

What had I done to piss him off?

It had to be me, too. He wasn’t the kind of guy who would do something to hurt me.

So I tried to find out what I had done, and I couldn’t get him to say more than a few words at a time.

Finally, I gave up. I made an educated guess it was that Laicy was in my life and I made dinner plans for all of us.

“Vanity…”

I held up my hand. “Stop, Simon. You need to meet her. I know that now. She and I had a very long talk about this and you need to be part of that.”

He shook his head.

“Stop it. This was hard for me to do. Laicy and I aren’t in the best place right now and I’m all kind of confused about everything. Please, just come to dinner with me and meet her. Even if you decide to leave halfway through.”

“I’m not that rude, Vanity. I’ll stay.” He let out a sigh.

“You’re not feeling well, are you?” I asked. “Is it this Mistress Dee case?”

“No. Well, yes, but not just. There’s more to it than that.”

I curled into the chair next to him. “Are you mad at me?”

“At you…? No. A little.”

His admission shocked me. I really didn’t think it would be that easy to get it out of him. “Why? Please tell me. I don’t want you to be mad at me.”

“There’s…a lot going on, Vanity. I can’t just—”

“Simon. Please. I know I’ve been closed-mouthed about this, and I want that to change. I need you to confide in me too, though.”

“You left the other night, when we got back from West Virginia.”

“I needed to find my balance…”

“I wanted to come back to you here, Vanity. I had an evening planned for you. I wanted to be the one to get you through what had happened. It just happened that I had set up the night. I was excited to see how you were going to like the surprise and you weren’t there.”

My heart cracked a little. “You set up a night for me?”

“A scene, Vanity. I still have everything in the basement,” he said. “I have been trying to figure out how to really come to terms with your kink, and Darien had agreed to come over and help me.”

I put a hand over my mouth. “Are you serious?”

He nodded slowly.

Standing from the couch, I walked away. I had screwed up. Big time. He wasn’t okay with the polyamory—he was trying to figure out how to solve this himself. He didn’t want to share me with someone at all. He didn’t live in my world, and this was his way of trying to find the right balance.

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