I Love You More by Stacy Finz

Author:Stacy Finz [Finz, Stacy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lyrical Press
Published: 2024-02-06T00:00:00+00:00

Avery

Bennett had to take a last-minute work trip to Los Angeles, where his company is pitching a nationwide chain of furniture stores. It’s a big campaign and if they get the account, it will be largely due to Bennett’s jingle. For the last several days, he’s been tweaking it at the piano and now it’s stuck in my head, which is the objective, right?

In any event, I have the house to myself, so I invited Tess. Ever since Kit came clean about sleeping with that Annabel woman, she’s been spending a lot of time in her old bedroom at my parents’ house, sleeping. It’s not healthy.

I baked her favorite cake. It’s Norwegian and called a Kvæfjordkake (don’t ask me to pronounce it), a combination of sponge cake, meringue and almonds. It’s filled with either rum or vanilla custard and whipped cream. In this instance, I made a rum custard because I figure Tess could use the booze, and who doesn’t love custard?

The first time I made it for her she ate the whole thing at one sitting. I’ve wanted to put it on the menu at Stones, but Dad, of course, doesn’t want to rock the boat.

After going to all the trouble of making it, Tess canceled. Kit is coming to town and they “need” to talk. I don’t see what there is left to talk about unless it’s the details of their divorce. In my book, what he did is unforgivable. Tess has said she thinks so too and has even contacted a lawyer.

So, here’s the bad thing, the thing I’m ashamed to admit about myself. I may want Tess to divorce Kit, but I fervently hope she doesn’t wind up staying in San Francisco. Yes, there was a time when I dreamed that my sister and I would live next door to each other for all eternity but not anymore. I’m sure it is not intentional on her part, but when she’s around I’m half the person I’m meant to be.

For instance, this morning I was cleaning out Bennett’s old desk, the one he never uses, and found old pictures of him and Tess. In one of them, he was looking at her with his heart in his eyes. The sheer power of his expression, filled with so much adoration and emotion, made me lose my breath. And I wondered if he ever looked at me that way.

That’s when I got out the photo albums to compare. It was the worst thing I could’ve done because as I thumbed through the pages and saw all the ways in which Bennett loved me—how he looked upon me with respect, kindness, affection, and even deep attraction—no matter how hard I searched or yearned to see it, not one of those pictures showed him looking at me the way he looked at Tess.

I tell myself all the time that it doesn’t matter, that love grows and in time his will catch up with mine. After all, is there ever equal distribution

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