Baby's Daddy by Aubrey Wright

Author:Aubrey Wright [Wright, Aubrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 48406906
Published: 2019-10-09T00:00:00+00:00

The waiter nodded and couldn’t leave our table fast enough.

Liv tried to smile, but the motion looked broken and lifeless. “What are your plans? When are you going back to Seattle?”

“Not right now. “

She sighed, hooking her hair behind her ears. “There’s no reason to be angry about what I said.”

“I’m not angry. “

“You seem pretty fucking angry to me,” she snapped.

“It’s just that I don’t like it when you push me around.”

She scoffed, her eyes glistening as she leaned over the table. “Has anyone ever been able to push you around?” Her eyes roved admiringly over my shoulders and chest.

“You have. Always.”

“You’re making this harder than it has to be. We’re adults.”

“Which is why we should be honest about what happened between us. It was no fucking mistake. We wanted each other, and we still do.”

“Do we have to keep discussing it?”

I shook my head. “Sorry, not sorry. I don’t believe in sticking my head in the sand.”

“What’s even the point? What do you want me to say? That we should keep fucking each other until you leave for Seattle? We’re friends with benefits now?”

She had a point. I considered a way to make it work without it sounding like a tacky arrangement based on sex.

There was no way. Fucking while being friends was the only thing that could work with our circumstances.

Liv had her life here with Anna. I had my life in Seattle. Alone. Our worlds couldn’t co-exist any longer. The only thing I was sure of was that I desperately wanted to kiss her full, pink lips. But I didn’t. I didn’t have anything to offer her except this twisted relationship of friends with benefits.

For more than a decade, I’d lived my life on my own terms. No attachments, no relationships, no dependencies. Maybe I had become so inflexible that I couldn’t bear for my life to change at all.

I wanted to go back to Seattle. Start where I left off. Liv deserved better. I couldn’t stay here in this place and create a new life for myself from scratch. And I sure as hell couldn’t expect Liv to uproot for me. She wouldn’t want to, anyway. She wanted to be her own little family of two—her and Anna. There was no room for me in her life. And I wasn’t sure I was up for the uphill battle to make change that.

“Is this why you asked me to meet you here?”

“I wanted to get it over with. The conversation.”

“Consider the conversation over.”

“God! Why does it have to be so complicated? We fucked. It won’t happen again.”

“We made love,” I interjected, watching her turn pale and loving every moment of it. “And it won’t happen again.”

“Right.”

No matter how miserable I felt about Liv demeaning what we had last night, I didn’t want to ruin what little time I had with her. Sex or no sex. I still wanted her company. “I’ll answer your earlier question now.”

“Okay?”

If I pretended that I was okay with the direction our relationship—or lack thereof—was taking, I might start believing it.

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