Page 19 of The Fate of Us

I press my lips to his as I feel his dick stir beneath me. “Maybe we should get out of bed so we don’t spend the whole day in it.”

He licks up my throat before biting on my ear. “Would that be so bad?”

“We can’t just have sex all day, Noah.”

He chuckles into my neck. “Baby, that’s where you’re wrong. I don’t need to be in bed to find a way to have sex with you all day.”

I roll my eyes and push away from him, slowly climbing out of bed. “Prove me wrong then.”

Noah jumps out of the bed. I have no time to react before he has me pinned against a wall, both of us laughing.

* * *

“Girl, you had me worried sick!”Seraphina shouts into the phone.

I pull the phone away from my ear as I stand on a sidewalk outside of a clothing store. “I know Noah let you know I was fine, so calm down.”

“How was I to know he didn’t just tell me that and he is really a serial killer?”

“I think you have been watching too much Investigation Discovery lately.”

“Oh come on, you know it keeps me entertained. Anyway, what the hell happened?”

I sit on a bench outside the ice cream shop next door. This is going to be a long talk. “You better be sitting down for this.”

I hear her fumbling around in the background. “Hold on a sec, let me grab some popcorn.”

I roll my eyes at her waiting until she gives me the go to talk. “Kyle was a dick.”

“No shit. I could have told you that.”

“He wasn’t always that way, Sera. He was great for a while.”

“Fine. He wasn’t always an asshole but I told you before you even agreed to marry him I wasn’t getting good juju from him.”

I snort. “Sera, you say you don’t get good juju from a lot of people. And when you do getgood jujuit’s usually only for the night with some guy with a hot bod.”

“Ugh. Whatever. So tell me what set fire to your feet so you had to hightail it out of dodge.”

I take a deep breath before I start. “Kyle cheated on me. A lot. In fact, he was having an affair with Becca. And—”

“Shut the front door. I knew something was happening between them.”

“Sera, you weren’t even around when it happened.”

“Juju.”

I shake my head as I tell her the rest of the story. The letter, Becca’s child, her nonchalance over the whole thing.

“That fucking bitch. I knew something was off with her.”

For years, Sera has been trying to warn me away from Becca. She has never been a fan, mostly because Becca was a bitch when she found out I made a friend in college who was my new best friend. The two of them never got along.

“It is what it is. I can’t change the past.”

“How are you holding up with all this?”

I play with the fabric of my ripped jeans thinking about everything. “It ripped me apart. Seeing Becca’s son’s eyes and knowing the truth. I felt so betrayed. I was ruined. Running was the only thing I could do. But I’m managing now.”

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