Never Second Best by Kenna Shaw Reed

Author:Kenna Shaw Reed [Reed, Kenna Shaw]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

“Then what?” he asked as Jo and Lucy peeled themselves from the floor laughing.

“Jo got up, apologized for thinking he could play at her level, and walked off the tennis court,” Lucy giggled.

The other guests left hours ago, and only the four of them sat in the lounge room, not willing to replace the port with coffee. As Lucy straightened herself next to him, he pulled her legs across his lap.

For him it was the first step towards whatever they could have together. Too much to hope they could have a fresh start without the baggage of the years but it could be one small step towards something.

As the friends continued to trade stories, Seth wondered about Lucy. He wanted to take off her shoes and massage her feet, knowing she had been on them all day. The curves of her calves begged for him to stroke them, but he knew if he started, his hands wouldn’t stop at the base of her skirt.

“Help me with coffees?” Joe helped his wife to her feet, with an obvious wink to Seth. “Be good you kids while mum and dad are out of the room.”

“Glad you stayed?” he sat up to be closer to her, hoping she would meet him half way.

“It’s not what I expected.”

“What,” he leaned in until a breath was all between them.

“You, me, us. I didn’t expect …” he couldn’t help himself anymore, silencing her with a kiss.

Their lips met in a gentle dance. Soft nibbles morphing into hungry foraging. He felt an explosion within him, wanting this woman, oblivious to their surroundings. She tasted of the sweet wine from her empty glass. With one kiss, she cleansed him of his hurt and loneliness. Answering his own question, yes he could want another woman as long as it was this woman.

Her hands reached for his chest and he tensed, wanting her to feel his muscles underneath the shirt and delve lower to find what else awaited her. Only when they heard Jo’s high heels on the polished floorboards, did they break away.

“Oh, my,” he heard Lucy softly utter. Oh, my indeed, he agreed.

He clung to the coffee, barely conscious of the banter between the other three as he remembered another party with Joe and Joanne as the last guests. Leaving him alone to make love to another woman, the woman he had loved for so long. The woman left her girlfriend to come back into his life, bare his children only to walk out again.

Damn it, the similarities between that night and this crashed upon him.

Every kiss with Lucy was perfect, what he felt for her was pure.

But what if he gave his heart again, and she walked away. He couldn’t do that to his kids and he didn’t think he could survive another heartbreak.

Yet here he was, stroking the long soft brown hair of the woman who would be his lover again by the end of the night. If he let her.

Lucy removed her legs from his lap when he stretched out for the empty coffee cups and wine glasses.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.