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"Clark can have a drink I’ll drive," Elodie relented and we grabbed our things to leave

Elodie and Clark shuffled the kids out first Adam had his ar a up in a feeeks’ tiain, for over twenty four hours we’d all been convinced she had cancer only to discover she probably didn’t… and of course she finally had Adaht where she wanted hiot the first taste of what he’d uide me out of the door and it was so deliberate it wasn’t funny

He kneas sensitive there

I tried to hold back the shiver as I turned to lock the apartot in my way, so when I turned I collided with hi slowly so ainst his chest

I felt my nipples harden and flinched at the heat that pulsed between hed softly as I leaned down to lock the door, and then I felt his shadow fall over ainst the door near my head I twisted around to look up at him, only to find he’d cocooned himself around me "Need a hand?"

I narrowed my eyes into slits "Back off before I turn your balls into a keyring"

I could tell he tried really hard not to laugh Unfortunately not hard enough "Babe, you’ve got to knohen you say shit like that, it just makes me love you ht now"

"I don’t care how I sound, as long as it’s working"

"It’s not working"

"A few more days of it and it will" He brushed a quick kiss across my cheek and then abruptly pulled away before I could kill hiuys," Ellie called to us from further up the sidewalk Elodie, Clark and the kids ?"

"Jocelyn was just begging for sex, but I told her it was a highly inappropriate ti passersby to chuckle at him

Furious at him for so many reasons, I rushed down our stoop towards them "That’s okay, sweetheart," I answered just as loudly "I have a toy that does a better job of it anyway" With that I slammed into the pub where he couldn’t hound hly inappropriate considering the reason ere going for a drink--I couldn’t help but feel satisfied I’d finally got the last word in

I ad fat coward

I didn’t meet with Rhian and James on Monday like I’d pro Ellie’s situation and that I didn’t want to leave her alone at the ht it eird I couldn’t take just two hours out of the day to see her, she didn’t let on If she thought it eird I was e her, she didn’t let on

The truth was I barely saw Ellie over the next few days because Adam had practically moved into her bedroom and the two of them only came out of there for snacks and bathroom breaks

I didn’t want to see Rhian and Jao I had spewed crap down the phone to Rhian about not running froht hold for theet a lecture fro a total hypocrite

My story with Braden was entirely different It was

Really

Okay

I was just scared No Terrified And I had every right to be I just had to look at the way I’d reacted to Ellie’s situation to know that Braden would be in for a tough, neurotic life with me Plus, my life had been so , my emotions were pretty stable, I had, if not peace, then quiet Being with Braden was tu Take out the aly e irlfriend before ot all sharp anyti with hih to worry about formattered to me if he was happy or healthy And it mattered more That just was not cool

I liked pre-Braden Joss

She was spunky and cool and independent

Post-Braden Joss was kind of a mushy asshat

It didn’t help matters that Braden had kept to his word He turned up at the aparth I told hi around

"I ashing the dishes and the sneaky bastard crept up behind ht here" I pointed angrily to ?"