Summer Swap by KT Morrison

Author:KT Morrison [Morrison, KT]
Language: eng
Format: epub

CHAPTER 20

As they got nearer the kitchen and could hear everyone’s voices, she lost her nerve and fell behind Byron. Byron turned to say something to her, then had to turn around to find her. “Get up here,” he mouthed. They stopped in the hall, facing each other. She’d tucked her hands under her armpits and her stomach screwed up tight and uneasy. Everyone was already up and they were all laughing and having a good time. She smelled toast and bacon and ketchup and coffee. She was hungry as hell—no kidding: sex with Cody burned a lot of calories—but she could hear amongst the throng of voices those of Carla and Cody, and she didn’t know what would happen when she was face to face with them. And why did they both sound so happy and carefree?

She presented that fact to Byron. Byron held her shoulders, saying, “Of course those two are fine this morning. They do this all the time.” Then he rolled his eyes around and said, “Well, not all the time. A couple times a year, Carla said. But I bet when they started, they went at it like crazy.”

She smiled and traced hair behind her ear, then looked toward the kitchen at the end of the hall where the voices were coming from. “Yes,” she said, “they’ve done it all before.”

“Don’t lose your nerve,” Byron said, and for the first time since they woke, she saw some unsureness in her husband’s eyes. His expression grew more serious, and he said, “Don’t freak out. Don’t have a panic attack or something, you hear? Don’t give it away. I don’t want anyone to know what we did.”

“You think I do? How about you— How about you don’t have a freaking panic attack.”

“I’ve never had a panic attack.”

She said, “That’s not fair, Byron.”

A voice from the kitchen barreled down the hall to them: “Good mor-ning, sleepyheads.”

And like that, she and Byron got into character. Put to the test, they both recovered and stretched happy, innocent faces. “Morning,” she shouted to Sullivan, who stood with a cup of coffee, wearing a T-shirt and swim trunks. Sullivan nodded in return and continued to stare at them. There was a certain smugness she didn’t like. Like Sully knew what they did.

And as if Byron could read her mind, he whispered, “We’re the last ones up. He called us sleepyheads. Don’t lose your cool.”

“I won’t,” she hissed, and walked away from his grip on her shoulders.

Now out in front of her husband, and marching toward the kitchen, she poked Sullivan in the stomach as she passed, making him flinch. “So what if we slept in?”

Sullivan’s voice trailed from behind her: “You were up all night. I’m sure you needed your beauty sleep.”

She wheeled like she was ready to fight. But Byron had joined them in the kitchen, coming up and squeezing Sullivan’s collar, making him flinch and spill coffee over the edge of his cup. Byron said, “Oh, did we keep you awake?” sucked his finger, then poked it in Sullivan’s ear.

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