Shane (Juicy Romance in Somerville Book 5) by Alexis Ashlie

Author:Alexis Ashlie [Ashlie, Alexis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

SHANE

I took Tina to one of my favorite vegetarian restaurants that’s fairly close by, but not too close. I was not ashamed of her or anything, and I was a single man free to go out with whomever I wanted. But that said, I did need to protect my daughter. She thought I’d gone back to New Haven . . . and beyond that, potentially running into us on the street was no way for her to meet Tina as the woman by her father’s side. I know it’s way too early for this kind of talk, but Tina and I had an undeniable connection. It felt somewhat other-worldly. It became even more evident after that kiss that lit my whole body on fire. To be quite honest, all I wanted to do at that moment was take her to my hotel room and experience her fully.

But I needed to do things right this time around. I was no longer a reckless college senior who changed girls more often than he changed shirts. It’s how I ended up getting Lucy’s mother pregnant. I couldn’t even imagine not having Lucy now, but back then I was just a stupid young man with big dreams. And even though there was an attempt to make the right choices, I still ended up putting my career and my life over my family. And that caused me to lose shared custody of Lucy and only get weekends with her. Nothing had ever hurt more than when my ex had used the fact that I had told her she should get an abortion against me in court. I really hoped that Lucy would never learn that. I would hate for her to one day look at me the same way I look at my own father.

Tina and I spent hours talking, through and after dinner. The thing I loved most about her was that she didn’t like to waste time on small talk. Our conversations became deep straight away, and we both shared the wounds that result from coming from toxic families. The way we saw things was so similar. We both wanted to do better and be better, to break that cycle. But I had a few more years of experience, plus a failed marriage, on her. And I knew that sometimes your best was not good enough. To break the cycle, you first pretty much had to break yourself. It was one thing to recognize bad behaviors, and a completely different game to attempt to will yourself to unlearn them. But I knew that Tina and I understood each other on a fundamental level, but no matter how much we might wish it to, that didn’t necessarily guarantee anything.

“Do you think that the fact we are so similarly broken would help up or hinder us?” she asked me sometime during the end of our date.

“I honestly have no idea,” I replied. She looked down at the table sadly.

“Earlier you said . . .” She hesitated for a bit.

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