Page 50 of Second Chance Husband

“Well, they’re identical, so I can tell you that you probably had a good time,” she said, before she blushed hard and gulped her wine.

Addison threw her head back and laughed, and I just lifted my glass in a toast.

“Well, there is that. Because my God. That man. He was like that. Even when we were younger, but I think he just got better. Which makes me think he had practice, and then I want to throw up.”

“Well, practice helps, because you had practice.” Addison winced. “I’m not saying the right thing now.”

“No, it’s fine. We had lives. We moved on. And then Jacob showed up at my office.”

Addison leaned forward. “What? Wait. Whoa. Back up. Your ex showed up?”

I let out a breath. “After my mother left and you left, Jacob showed up.”

“It all happened that day!” Devney exclaimed.

“Yep. It was an eventful day. And I sort of broke my computer.”

Both girls looked at each other, then at me.

“Go into detail. Very, very explicit detail,” Addison blurted, and I laughed.

“Jacob showed up and got growly because he wants me to sign non-disclosure papers. It doesn’t matter because most of it wouldn’t even be legally binding anyway. But he got rude, and then well he sort of cornered me.”

“That asshole. I’m going to kill him.”

I shook my head at Addison’s words, even though Devney stood up, ready to punch out a man who wasn’t even in the room.

“It’s fine. Because then August showed up, and I think he might’ve broken Jacob’s nose.”

“I love that man,” Addison said, as she stood up, and lifted her fists into the air. “See? The Cassidy brothers will drive you insane, but they are good men.”

“Well, and then I had to threaten Jacob because he was probably going to sue August, and it was a whole thing. I got Jacob out of the office, and that left me and August alone.”

“And? Go into detail,” Devney urged.

My lips twitched. This felt so normal, and something that we had been neglecting for far too long.

“And then he said he wanted to talk, and we didn’t talk. Instead we had sex, a lot of sex. Dirty sex. All over my desk.”

“Oh my God. And we just showed up in your office the next day, when there was like sex all over the furniture?” Addison asked, before she downed the rest of her wine.

“Well, we cleaned it. As much as possible. But my computer broke. And it’s a whole thing. However, we didn’t talk. So God forbid we know what’s going on.”

“I don’t even want to go into what a label could be with this, but you didn’t talk at all?”

“No. He divorced me. He’s the one who walked away all those years ago. And then he puts his hand on the back of my neck and tells me to kiss him or to be a good girl, and then I can’t help myself.”

I put my hand over my mouth, as both women hooted in laughter before quieting down so they wouldn’t wake the children.

“I didn’t mean to get that much into detail.”

“Oh no, please do,” Addison said with a grin.

“Either way, I feel like I’m lost here. He didn’t love me enough to stay, and now we can’t even be adults and talk about what we’re feeling. We just keep falling into each other, and we’re in each other’s orbits because I’m friends with you guys, and I don’t know, it’s complicated.”

“What do you want to happen?” Devney asked.

I shook my head. “That’s the problem. I don’t know. Because I think I love him. I think I’ve always loved him. And I married another man even though I loved August. What kind of person does that make me?”

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