Secrets from a Happy Marriage by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2020-02-27T14:35:53+00:00

19

Ron is so funny, you’d like him. Dad wouldn’t. He’s got a motorcycle.

—FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY SUSAN BRIGHT TO HER SISTER, AUGUST 1961

EMMA

Emma felt strange leaving things unresolved with her mother. She also couldn’t claim she was just a benevolent liar now.

At this point, she was simply a liar.

She saw Luke almost every night. And she always made up excuses. Picking up an extra shift, doing homework with Catherine. And her mom hadn’t pushed. Likely because she was waiting for Emma to say she was sorry, or was afraid they would have another big blowup.

Emma was exploiting that. She knew she was. But as long as her mom didn’t know what was happening, Emma could luxuriate in it.

She was going to Boston. She had accepted.

Luke was her boyfriend.

She could talk to him about anything. About everything. When they weren’t talking...there was a lot of kissing.

She had no practical experience with guys. No kissing, and she’d certainly never wanted to have sex with one before.

And she knew it was fast. Really fast.

But she wanted to. With him.

It felt big, but it was the distraction she needed from today. Her birthday.

Today hurt.

Her dad should be here, and he wasn’t. It felt wrong.

There was something about being with Luke that helped. At first it had been that crush, that secret that she had that she could hold close when the world felt hard. Now it was the beauty of something new. The healing of it.

Like renewing her heart. Layering something bright and brand-new over the old hurt. It didn’t make the pain go away.

It was like a multifaceted gem. If she held it a certain way, the light caught the right edge and it glowed. Making it all she could see. Ignoring the dark spots, for just a little bit.

Luke felt so special, so important.

And she didn’t care if some people would think it was too fast, or that she was too young. She didn’t. She was going to see him sometime tonight. But there was going to be a family dinner first, and now Emma was helping her aunt Anna take pies to J’s. She didn’t mind that—it put her in proximity to Luke. Although, it would be difficult to figure out what to do with her face if she saw him, and she was with Anna.

Not that she really needed to keep it a secret from Anna.

But she didn’t want to talk to anyone about it. She couldn’t quite articulate why, not even to herself.

She grabbed the pies out of the back of her aunt’s car and turned, looking toward the garage. She could see him through the window, and he lifted his head and his eyes met hers.

She felt color mounting in her face, and she knew that Anna could see. He knew that she was keeping him a secret, even though he didn’t love it. She had explained at length that had nothing to do with being embarrassed of him—she wasn’t. She was insanely proud of him.

She just didn’t want.

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