One Vow: A Second Chance Romance by Summer Cooper

Author:Summer Cooper [Cooper, Summer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B09YVFDKM2
Published: 2022-05-16T00:00:00+00:00

9

Finn

Everything in the house smelled like Felicity, the sofa cushions, the towels, every molecule of air. Not that I minded. Felicity was one of my favorite scents. I needed only to figure out how to bottle it and take it with me when I left.

Which, even after only two days, I wasn’t in a hurry to do. I liked waking up to hear her humming. And listening to her sing in the shower. I loved the way she talked to the birds when she threw birdseed out in the mornings. And the way she looked? Older. Better, if that was even possible. Her hair was longer. Eyes brighter but with a wisdom behind them that came from living.

“You want breakfast?” She poked her head around the kitchen wall and looked at me as I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and wished for a cup of coffee that magically appeared on the table, if magically meant she walked it across the room and set it in front of me.

She looked down where the blanket covered my boxers. “You got a tent pole down there or are you just happy to see me?”

I chuckled. “Always happy to see you.”

She jerked her gaze back to my face and waited a second after my shrug to shake her head.

“Your fiancée know you talk to other women that way?” I should’ve been the one embarrassed, but it was her cheeks that went red.

I wanted to tell her the truth, and I wanted her to stop reminding me of Beth and the wedding. “I don’t talk to other women that way.”

That she thought I would, speared something in my gut. “I don’t see women other than you.”

Felicity crossed her arms. “That’s a good line. New material?”

I reached for the mug because I couldn’t look at her. I didn’t want her to see how her doubt affected me.

There wasn’t much in my life I’d remained true to, thanks to time and history. My own bad behavior. Those things defined my lack of loyalty, but I’d been true to Felicity. It’s why I was alone. And marrying Beth Cooper didn’t mean I wasn’t alone. It only meant I was alone with Beth Cooper beside me. But no way could I tell Felicity without admitting all those things to myself. So, I nodded.

“You know me.” She didn’t. Not anymore. “I like to keep things fresh.”

She turned but not before I saw a flash of pain in her eyes. And I couldn’t let that go. I couldn’t let her walk away thinking she was just another in a long line of women I hit on.

I threw the blanket off and followed her into the kitchen. “Lis…”

There was nothing I could say. Not while she was bent with her head in the fridge, and I couldn’t take my eyes off her ass. That made me a pig, and Felicity deserved better. But damned if I was ever good enough of a man to look away.

And I didn’t until she stood, arms full of breakfast items.

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