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“How do you two know each other?”
From behind me, Kane said in a low, angry voice, “Exactly what I was about to ask.”
I spun around and stared up at my husband, my arms folded across my chest to hold me back from lashing out. “So you think you’re in a position to ask anything since you’ve been lying to my face for at least a week about where you’ve been going?”
Kane said nothing, but he didn’t look away. Instead, he met my angry gaze with one of his own. Behind me, I heard Stefan say to Sebastian, “Oh, you’re going to love these two! He routinely lies about things because he thinks she needs to be protected, and when she finds out about one, she goes toe-to-toe with him about it. It makes for some great family get-togethers, I can tell you.”
Sebastian, still clearly confused, asked, “So are you his sister or something?”
I turned around to explain who I was, but Kane pushed me behind him and said flatly, “She’s my wife, and you’re about to tell me why you were having coffee with her.”
Stefan jumped up from the couch. “Whoa, I know that look. I don’t think this is what you think it is, Kane. Let the guy explain before you go pounding him into the ground.”
Backing up to the far end of the couch, Sebastian put up his hands in surrender. “Dude, no need to go pounding anything on me. We weren’t having coffee together. Well, we were, but it wasn’t like it was a date or anything. She was just there at the coffee shop and asked me if she could sit down at the table I was at since it was so crowded. Nothing else. We had a nice talk for a few minutes. I swear that was it. Honest.”
Kane took a step toward him, but I grabbed his arm to stop him. “He’s telling the truth. Don’t do anything.”
For a moment, I wasn’t sure he believed either of us. I knew my husband better than anyone else in the world, and hearing I was spending time with some man, even if I wanted to find out if he was his brother, wasn’t something he ever wanted to hear.
To say he was possessive was an understatement.
He looked down at me with a mixture of hurt and anger in those dark blue eyes, and I knew he was struggling to not act on his nature. Hoping to convince him, I brought his left hand to my lips and pressed a soft kiss onto the wedding band that matched mine.
“I would never be with anyone else. You know that, Kane. My time with Sebastian at that coffee shop was mere coincidence. I was there to meet Gemma.”
That my being at that coffee shop that day wasn’t a coincidence at all wasn’t anything he needed to know. At least not at that moment as Stefan and Sebastian sat there watching us.
Cradling my face, Kane said in a soft voice I knew was forced, “Abbi, I’ll be home in a little while after I get finished here. We’ll talk when I get home.”
I didn’t need to argue anything after he said that. There was no point. I knew my husband. I could either understand that he didn’t want to talk about this there and cause a scene, which would result in him taking me to the car, or I could accept that he was trying to be what he’d always promised he’d be to me.
The kind of man I wanted.
True, he was jealous and possessive and he lied to me to protect me from things I didn’t need protecting from, but beyond all that, he loved me like I was the queen of his world. I accepted the bad with him because of that good.
Without another word, I turned to leave, but Kane gently touched me on the shoulder to stop me. I looked back at him and saw a tiny smile that went all the way up to his eyes. Everything would be okay.
It was more than an hour later, but he finally returned home just after I got the kids tucked into their beds and read Annalea her nighttime story. Kane sat down on his side of the bed and silently slid out of his shirt before turning to look at me.
“It wasn’t a coincidence that you were at that coffee shop, was it?” he asked in a low voice.
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From behind me, Kane said in a low, angry voice, “Exactly what I was about to ask.”
I spun around and stared up at my husband, my arms folded across my chest to hold me back from lashing out. “So you think you’re in a position to ask anything since you’ve been lying to my face for at least a week about where you’ve been going?”
Kane said nothing, but he didn’t look away. Instead, he met my angry gaze with one of his own. Behind me, I heard Stefan say to Sebastian, “Oh, you’re going to love these two! He routinely lies about things because he thinks she needs to be protected, and when she finds out about one, she goes toe-to-toe with him about it. It makes for some great family get-togethers, I can tell you.”
Sebastian, still clearly confused, asked, “So are you his sister or something?”
I turned around to explain who I was, but Kane pushed me behind him and said flatly, “She’s my wife, and you’re about to tell me why you were having coffee with her.”
Stefan jumped up from the couch. “Whoa, I know that look. I don’t think this is what you think it is, Kane. Let the guy explain before you go pounding him into the ground.”
Backing up to the far end of the couch, Sebastian put up his hands in surrender. “Dude, no need to go pounding anything on me. We weren’t having coffee together. Well, we were, but it wasn’t like it was a date or anything. She was just there at the coffee shop and asked me if she could sit down at the table I was at since it was so crowded. Nothing else. We had a nice talk for a few minutes. I swear that was it. Honest.”
Kane took a step toward him, but I grabbed his arm to stop him. “He’s telling the truth. Don’t do anything.”
For a moment, I wasn’t sure he believed either of us. I knew my husband better than anyone else in the world, and hearing I was spending time with some man, even if I wanted to find out if he was his brother, wasn’t something he ever wanted to hear.
To say he was possessive was an understatement.
He looked down at me with a mixture of hurt and anger in those dark blue eyes, and I knew he was struggling to not act on his nature. Hoping to convince him, I brought his left hand to my lips and pressed a soft kiss onto the wedding band that matched mine.
“I would never be with anyone else. You know that, Kane. My time with Sebastian at that coffee shop was mere coincidence. I was there to meet Gemma.”
That my being at that coffee shop that day wasn’t a coincidence at all wasn’t anything he needed to know. At least not at that moment as Stefan and Sebastian sat there watching us.
Cradling my face, Kane said in a soft voice I knew was forced, “Abbi, I’ll be home in a little while after I get finished here. We’ll talk when I get home.”
I didn’t need to argue anything after he said that. There was no point. I knew my husband. I could either understand that he didn’t want to talk about this there and cause a scene, which would result in him taking me to the car, or I could accept that he was trying to be what he’d always promised he’d be to me.
The kind of man I wanted.
True, he was jealous and possessive and he lied to me to protect me from things I didn’t need protecting from, but beyond all that, he loved me like I was the queen of his world. I accepted the bad with him because of that good.
Without another word, I turned to leave, but Kane gently touched me on the shoulder to stop me. I looked back at him and saw a tiny smile that went all the way up to his eyes. Everything would be okay.
It was more than an hour later, but he finally returned home just after I got the kids tucked into their beds and read Annalea her nighttime story. Kane sat down on his side of the bed and silently slid out of his shirt before turning to look at me.
“It wasn’t a coincidence that you were at that coffee shop, was it?” he asked in a low voice.
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