Underestimated Too(91)

“Okay, let’s forget feeling lonely. How does it make you feel to know that he is always watching you? You don’t find that a little stalky?” Deidra prompted.

I snorted. “Oh, I find it a lot stalky. Do I mind it? No, not at all. I’m used to it. Drew’s watched me since the first day I came here when I was eighteen. Drew’s seen me more exposed than anyone I’ve ever known,” I tried to explain to Deidra. How do you explain a love like ours? Nobody could understand it, and I wasn’t sure how to clarify it.

“Nothing else matters,” Drew helped.

I smiled, knowing exactly what he meant.

Deidra didn’t. “What do you mean, Drew?”

“I’m an imperfect man, and I’ve made my wife an imperfect woman. We’re just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other. She will forever be my always.”

Ahhh, I loved that. She will forever be my always. I would never forget those words as long as I lived, the way Drew looked at me when he said them or the emotion behind his eyes.

Deidra gave us homework after that session, requesting that we both bring her a five item bitch list for our next visit. I was thinking more about what Drew would say than what I was going to say.





Chapter 29





“Morgan, look at the guy that just walked in here,” Alicia whispered across the table during lunch at our favorite little sandwich shop. I turned, doing a double take.

“Wow, if I didn’t know Drew was an only child, I’d call him his brother. That’s a little scary,” I determined, looking at the guy who looked a lot like my husband. His physique wasn’t quite as strong as Drew’s and his hair was longer, but his facial features were haunting.

“You sure Drew doesn’t have a brother,” Alicia asked.

“I’m sure,” I stated. “What if he does? What if that guy really is his brother? Maybe Drew secretly sees him when he goes on trips, or talks to him in his office. What if he….” I rattled on and on.

“Jesus, Morgan. I was joking. I’m sure that’s not Drew’s brother. You need to stop reading those books,” Alicia decided, taking a bite of her turkey club. I turned to see the guy putting on one of the brown aprons. Alicia was right. Drew’s brother wouldn’t be working in a place like that. I did need to stop reading those books.

***

Drew and I spent three days at the beach house alone with Nicky. I loved Celeste, Alicia, and their two adorable kids. I was even a little disappointed when they didn’t want to come, too busy with the new house, new baby, and Vincent’s new obsession to learn to golf. After the first night I was glad it was just us.

We ate supper with my mom. Drew, Jason, and Caroline looked for sea glass with baby Nick in a backpack on Drew’s back. I was so happy and in love with my family. Drew put Nicholas to bed while I showered, and then we sat out on the deck listening to the waves lap along the shore.

“Come over here,” Drew requested, wanting me beside him and not in my own chair. I didn’t mind. The evening air coming from the ocean was a little nippy. Drew was warm.

“Hmm, this is my favorite place to be,” I said, snuggling into Drew’s arms.

“Where, the beach house?”

“No, inside your hug.”

I felt Drew smile on my forehead as he kissed me lightly. We talked for over an hour, just enjoying the conversation and each other’s company. We stopped talking when it almost turned into an argument. Drew was adamant about Nicky being homeschooled, I was not. I wanted him around other kids. We could wait on that one. He just turned one. We made love instead.

I’m not sure how my brain worked, but that’s where it happened, right out of the blue, I thought of it while my husband slid in and out of me, making slow passionate love to me; the new guy at the sandwich shop. It could work. Nobody looks exactly like their driver’s license. Shit. I how was I supposed to get that from Drew’s wallet?

“Are you still with me, Mrs. Kelley?” Drew asked, interrupting the scheme going on inside my head. “I don’t feel like you’re feeling me anymore,” Drew blamed.

“Oh, I’m feeling you,” I teased with a kiss.

***

I didn’t have to really lie to Drew about going into town. It just so happened that two of my favorite authors had books released over the next couple weeks.

“That makes no sense to me. You have five electronic devises; you could buy the books and be reading them in two minutes. Why do you have to have the paperback?”

“Because, Drew. I have all those beautiful shelves in there. I like to display them after I’ve read them. And I like reading to Nicky with an actual page and not something with a light behind it. Have you ever really looked at a book cover? It’s an art as much as the book itself.”