Page 459 of Lodestar

“What?! I’d just found out Mom is writing her goddamn memoir?—”

“And you didn’t lead with this conversation the first time we met up again?” Star bristled. “How am I only just learning about this? She can’t publish anything without me signing off on it!”

Savannah sighed. “She felt it was a good time to write about her life.”

“And that included her and Dagger and Gerry being in a menage.”

Camden put down his forkful of Kung Pao chicken. “A thousand hours of therapy didn’t block those memories out of my brain.”

Savannah’s nose wrinkled at the bridge. “Yeah, it was kind of a traumatizing time.”

“Wait, your parents and Star’s dad were in a threesome? As in,livingin a threesome?” Aidan gaped at them.

“Yeah,” Savannah muttered. “It was a weird time. They’d lost Casey, Star’s mom, and he’d started using again.”

“Started fucking everything that moved again too,” Star said bitterly.

I rubbed her knee. I knew those memories remained a sore spot when she pressed her fingers to mine, knotted them together, and didn’t let go.

“And you became a problem child,” Camden retorted.

“Can’t deny I got to be a problem. Whenever he used too much, I’d act out,” she explained to Aidan. “I only behaved when he was clean. Then I realizedwhyhe was clean and…”

“She rebelled again,” Camden answered for her. “I didn’t hate it when they were together, but I didn’t like finding them in—” He thrust another digit through the circle he made with his thumb and pointer finger then did some kind of movement that was more like origami than anything else. “—various positions.”

Aidan plunked his elbows down on the table. “I can see Lorelei being into that, to be honest.”

“Of course. She’s all about sexual empowerment,” Savannah agreed. “Did you know the last time I saw her she gave me a vibrator to gift to Victoria?”

Aidan burst out laughing. “No. I didn’t know. Did you give it to her?”

“Sure. That’s why I didn’t tell you. You’d have told me not to.”

He grimaced. “I’d have told you to keep your nose out. Not because I’m a prude?—”

“Oh, I knew that already, babe,” she chirped with a wink.

“—but because I don’t need Eoghan coming to me telling me my wife is corrupting his sister-in-law.”

“Like she’d tell Eoghan what I gave her,” Savannah scoffed.

“She has a point,” I said with a laugh.

“Has she used it?” Star queried. “She’s a sweet girl but looks like she has a stick up her ass.”

Savannah snorted. “I didn’t ask her, dumbo. Just left it with her. It’s there when she’s ready and only she knows when that is. Mom just wanted her to be prepared.”

“It’s weird that Mom even thought about her sex life,” Camden grumbled. “She’s met her, what? Twice?”

“She’s pulled back from her clients but I think she misses it.”

Star frowned. “She’s not working as a therapist anymore?”

Savvie bit her lip. “Nope.”

“Why not?”

“She says she wants to devote her time to her memoir.”

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