Three Men and a Woman: Evangeline (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour) by Rachel Billings

Author:Rachel Billings [Unknown]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Published: 2014-01-27T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Briggs pulled alongside Evvie when she was a couple hundred yards up the drive on her way back to the house after the bus stop walk with Maisy. He’d called her the night before—after he was pretty sure Maisy would be in bed, after the three guys had drunk their last beers and hammered out the best plan they could for going forward with whatever it was they were doing with Ev.

He hadn’t really needed to call—from the beginning, he planned to be there to watch mother and daughter come down the hill. If he hadn’t learned the bus schedule, he’d have just shown up at sunrise and sat in his car for however many hours it took to get what he wanted. He wanted to see Maisy, really, really wanted it.

It was an odd thing. He’d expected that one day he’d have children. That meant a wife, of course, and so he expected he’d have one of those, too. But it had never been more than a vague, assumed thought for some time in the future.

Now, he discovered in himself an urgent need—to know Maisy, to touch her, hold her, claim her. And to have another—more than one other—child. To have Evvie pregnant, to share with her this time the trials and triumphs of pregnancy and birth and the raising of a child.

To have Evvie. Period.

For better or worse, he wasn’t alone in that.

Chase had about driven him and Gio nuts a few years ago when he went through his short psych rotation in med school. Briggs really marked that as the time Chase stopped being fun. Though that was a bit of an overstatement—Chase was still fun, it was just that the balance between his fun times and pain-in-the-ass times started to tip the scale in the wrong direction.

So, yeah, they’d each of them had some serious “issues” growing up. None of them had been raised by parents who particularly took to the job—there wasn’t a single star among them, and, God knew, slutty Fancy Charles was the worst of the lot.

During that rotation, Chase had obsessively analyzed the effects of their screwed-up parenting. He not only had to talk about it, but he wanted Briggs and Gio to “share” their “feelings.” They’d nearly had to toss Chase from the group. As it was, they spent a few months avoiding him in any circumstance that might give him an opportunity to expound on his latest theory.

Baseball game, no—too much time to talk. Hockey, yes—too loud for a real conversation. Loud dance bars, yes. Quiet restaurants, no.

About the same thing happened last night. Chase got all hot trying to psychoanalyze the deal. He talked about Evvie’s need for love, her natural inclination—given Fancy’s behavior—to mistake sexual desire for loving feelings, the important shared history of the four of them, the communal blow of Shep’s death, blah, blah, blah. Blah.

Briggs had started making eye contact with Gio, and they were about to toss Chase out of his own house.

Gio had found his own, blunt way to deal with it.

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