Forevermore (Virginia Clan #5) by Lynn Galli

Author:Lynn Galli [Galli, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, lesbian, romance, Adult, Family, Kids, Married
ISBN: 9781935611257
Publisher: Penikila Press
Published: 2014-07-07T12:00:00+00:00

20 / OLIVIA

THEIR ARGUMENT WOKE ME up. Normally their disagreements didn’t last long, and Ian always got his way. It didn’t sound like that this time. They weren’t discussing how much the wedding was going to cost either. It was only a week away now. They talked about it nonstop all the time. My play dates with the imaginary Janna were getting more frequent just so I could get away from them.

“How could you do this to me?” Aunt Nell demanded.

“It was a mistake, sugarplum. A slip up. The bible says, temptation—”

“I don’t care what the bible says right now, Ian. You were unfaithful. We’re getting married next week. How could you do this to me?”

Unfaithful. Did that mean what I thought it meant? If so I didn’t think “good Christian folk” did stuff like that. Aunt Nell sounded really, really mad.

“My precious, please be reasonable. I was a fool. I will never do it again. You are the only one for me.” He sounded like he was pleading now. He never pleaded. “I was under so much pressure with this wedding and raising your niece. I lost my head for a moment.”

“With Angela? Why did it have to be Angela? She’s going to tell everyone. It’s humiliating.”

“She won’t say a word.”

Aunt Nell didn’t say anything for a while. I shouldn’t be listening, but I couldn’t believe they were fighting like this so close to their wedding. “I don’t care, Ian. You hurt me. I can’t possibly trust you now, and I can’t forgive this.”

“You have to, Nellie. Please. I made one mistake. God knows we’re all flawed.” His sermon last week was on human flaws. Totally lopsided, too. He had lots to say about women’s flaws but he only made jokes about men’s flaws. “You’re not perfect either. We’re both going through a transition right now. We’ve had to adjust to raising your niece. That’s been hard on both of us. She’s not easy. You know that.”

Great. Now I was the reason he was making Aunt Nell mad? Other foster parents would fight about us kids from time to time, but this sounded like Ian blamed me for him acting badly. That being my parent, which he so wasn’t, was the reason he made this kind of mistake.

“That’s no excuse,” Aunt Nell told him. My stomach hurt when she didn’t deny his words. Parenting wasn’t easy, I knew that, but she could have at least told him she liked having me here.

“I made a mistake. We love each other. We can get past this.”

“I’m just so angry with you. I thought you were different from the men my age. You’re a pastor and still you make this mistake. Do you know how many of my boyfriends have cheated on me?” Aunt Nell was almost screeching now. “All of them. It’s why I was so open to dating you, a pastor fifteen years older. I thought you would have gotten that out of your system. You said you loved me and still you sleep with someone else.

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