LIPSTICK AND LIES AND DEADLY GOODBYES by Jodi Vaughn

Author:Jodi Vaughn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jodi Vaughn

Chapter 17

Dinner went off without a hitch. We fell into our routine of talking with the girls about their day, and for a moment, it almost seemed like we were a family again.

Until Miles got a text. He got up from the table and grabbed his phone. I followed him into the kitchen while the girls finished their dinner.

“Who is that?” I asked once we were alone.

“Just work.” He shrugged and stuffed the phone into his pocket.

“Let me see.” I held out my hand.

“Seriously, Rachel?” He cocked his eyebrow at me like I’d asked him what color the sky was.

“If you want this marriage to work, you need to be honest. Let me see your phone.” I kept my hand out. My stomach clenched when he handed it over. I almost dreaded to see what was on the text.

I glanced down and read the group message from the doctors at the hospital. It was about an upcoming golf match for charity.

I held Miles’ gaze and then handed it back to him.

“We aren’t going to make it if you don’t trust me.” He cocked his head to the side.

Guilt pooled in my stomach. A marriage had to be built on trust. I knew that.

“I don’t know how to trust you. Not after…” I couldn’t bring myself to say the words. The two bites of Mexican rice I’d eaten at dinner threatened to come up.

“That’s the only way this is going to work. Trust.” He stepped closer and took his phone back. “You know I love you, and I love our family.”

His eyes seemed sincere. It still didn’t change what he’d done, or who he’d done it with.

“It’s going to take time,” I said. I turned and headed back to the dining room.

Ever since the girls were born, the rule was that the family ate dinner in the dining room. I knew that dining rooms were going out of fashion, and a lot of families didn’t eat together anymore at all, but it was one habit I didn’t want to break. I liked the focus that came from eating together as a unit, I felt like it brought us closer.

As the girls got older, they complained, but I didn’t care. I knew once they grew up, it would be something they’d remember and hopefully carry on when they got married and started families of their own.

I grabbed the banana pudding out of the fridge and took it into the dining room.

“Yay, dessert!!” Gabby clapped her hands together.

“I don’t want any,” Arianna said none-too-convincingly. “I’m trying to watch what I eat.”

“Honey, you don’t need to worry about that. You barely weigh anything as it is.” I snorted.

“Well, I’m eating a big old bowl,” Gabby said. “I don’t care if it makes me fat as an elephant.”

I snorted at Gabby’s description and scooped a helping into a bowl before handing it to her.

Arianna bit her bottom lip and eyed Gabby’s bowl with envy.

“How about just a little taste?” I asked Arianna. I didn’t want my girls to have body-image issues.

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