Page 35 of Always Right

Lisa snorted. “Now I know something is wrong.”

I said nothing, and she didn’t press the issue. She knew me better than to do so. But she waited. Lisa always did.

She gave me room to think and process, and for that I would always be thankful.

“You should invite Hannah.”

Now it was my turn to look at her like she was crazy because she had to be to suggest that.

“I’m serious,” she shrugged. “It’s neutral territory, I think. And it’s a public place where you two could spend time together. Plus…how nice would it be if you make a speech and include her in it.” She let out a dreamy sigh and I chuckled. Definitely crazy. “You would totally win her over.”

“It’s not that simple.”

“Well, you spent the night with her yesterday, right?”

And was about to do more.

“C’mon. You’re crazy about her and I know she is, too.”

My phone buzzed, and for once, I was thankful for the interruption. I hated the common sense that came out of her mouth, specially when I completely lacked it.

“Oh! Signs, signs everywhere,” she said, handing me my phone.

Sure enough, it was Hannah…and it was a video call.

“Pretend I’m not even here,” Lisa mouthed, encouraging me.

And hell, even if I didn’t want her to hear the conversation, there was no way I’d decline it. I needed to hear her voice.

Needed to know we were okay after what happened.

Her beautiful face appeared on the screen but soon, it wasn’t her anymore and instead it was focused on our girls who slept in their cribs.

“They refused to nap after you left,” she whispered. I could hear the smile in her voice, even if I couldn’t see it. “I figured you could see how tired they are after a day without their sleep.”

I chuckled, listening to her footsteps as she walked. The camera focused on her once again but now she was sitting on her bed, the headboard behind her visible. Her hair was up in a bun and her shoulders were exposed with her tank top, but I couldn’t tear my eyes from the terrible bruising on her face.

The anger simmered.

“How are you feeling?”

Her lips tilted up. “I’m okay. The police are looking into what happened and gave Nate a little more information, but not enough. And Evie asked a whole lot of questions.”

I nodded. “Of course she did. She’s worried about you.”

Hannah shook her head. “Not about that. About us.” She bit her lip. She looked away. She did everything to try to keep herself from saying the words, but my brave woman said them anyways. “I didn’t want to stop you.”

Lisa gasped. I stuck up my middle finger and walked to my bedroom closing and locking the door behind me. She didn’t need to hear this conversation.

“You didn’t try, Hannah.”

She hummed.

“You can fight this all you want…we both know how this ends.”

“And how do you think that is?”

I scoffed. “Do you really want me to tell you?” Hannah nodded, one of her hands rubbing her neck. She was stressed, tense. I wanted nothing more than to relieve her of all of it. “With me buried between your legs.”

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