Why You Should Never Kiss Your Ex-Husband by Erin Nicholas

Author:Erin Nicholas [Nicholas, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: EN Fiction, Inc.
Published: 2023-03-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

EIGHT

They finally got out of bed, showered and made it to the kitchen to eat. But it took awhile. The shower was another first for them.

It was fortunate that Kevin had been a bachelor for so long because that meant he could cook. Kind of. It was true that he spent a lot of meals with his friends, at their houses. But if he needed to make an omelet, grill a cheese sandwich or throw together some chili, he could do it.

He made chicken salad sandwiches for Eve.

“So what’s your dad going to think?” he asked as he served her sandwich and passed the barbecue potato chips. The question had been pressing on him. Her mom and dad didn’t live here anymore, and if her father had reservations about them being together, Kevin would have a hard time demonstrating how he’d changed.

“Think about what?” she asked, taking the first bite.

“Me. Us. The fact that we’re married.”

She stopped chewing. “Oh.”

“You haven’t told your parents, have you?”

She shook her head quickly. “No. Definitely not.”

“Definitely not?” He frowned. So she still didn’t want Daddy to know? Was she going to keep it a secret until their fiftieth wedding anniversary? Or forever?

He made himself take a deep breath. They’d been back together, aware of their marriage, for three days. Maybe that wasn’t enough time for her to call them. He hadn’t told his parents either. Though that had everything to do with being mad at them and not wanting to open the whole can of worms surrounding Drew yet, and nothing to do with Eve and his feelings for her.

“I don’t…talk to my parents much,” she said, pushing chips around on her plate with her finger.

“What?” The parents who had been her conscience, her moral compass, whose expectations outweighed everything else? The parents whose approval—or lack thereof—had been the whole reason they’d broken up?

“We, um, don’t talk much.” She sighed. “Or at all.”

Kevin grabbed her plate and pulled it out of her reach. “Eve, what are you talking about?”

Her father and his influence over her had changed Kevin’s life. He’d been without her because of the man. And now she didn’t even talk to him?

She looked so sad when she looked up that he wanted to pull her onto his lap. But that passed when she blinked, the sadness replaced by a hard glint of anger. “We…broke up.”

He couldn’t help it. He smiled at the strange phrasing. “You broke up with your parents?”

She slumped on the tall stool. “Yeah. Once I told them about us eloping they got pretty upset. Then I left for college and went through a rebellious stage. Then he got reassigned and left Grover. They’re in Arkansas right now. They don’t call me and I don’t call them.”

He knew he was staring, but he couldn’t quite wrap his mind around everything she was telling him. “So your dad knows we got married? You told him?”

“Yes.”

“What did he do?”

She took a deep breath. “Told me how disappointed he was and…”

She stopped and Kevin felt his heart lodge in his throat.

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