Chapter 4
chapter
four
Wren
ME: I’m in trouble
WINNIE: What happened?
ME: Liam just kissed the hell out of me. I think I’m having an out of body experience.
WINNIE: It’s about damn time. So you’re married?
ME: Yes. We’re on our way back to our hotel room.
ME: Right before we walked down the aisle he told me if I wanted a fake husband, I needed to marry someone else. That this would be a real marriage.
WINNIE: Sigh.
ME: I’m pretty sure he just meant sex.
WINNIE: YES!!! Ride that man like the stallion he is.
ME: Please don’t ever say those words again.
WINNIE: Which ones specifically? Would you prefer: climb him like a tree? Or sit on him like your favorite chair?
ME: Stop!
WINNIE: All I’m trying to say is that you’ve loved this guy since you were in high school. And you trust him. He’s not going to hurt you or Keller.
ME: I don’t know that I still have that part of me. The ability to love like that.
ME: I mean, I loved Colt too. Or I thought I did, once upon a time. And then he broke me over and over again. I don’t think I have any space left for that kind of romantic love.
WINNIE: Oh honey… Colt was a selfish man-child dickhead.
WINNIE: Liam is different on possibly every level.
ME: Maybe, but I don’t think I know how to love anyone but my kid anymore.
WINNIE: You love me.
ME: True.
WINNIE: And you still love Liam. Otherwise you wouldn’t have called him to marry you like this.
WINNIE: He just told you he wants a real marriage!
WINNIE: I think he’s going to wear you down. Great sex has a way of working magic.
WINNIE: And Liam has always had Big Dick Energy.
ME: You are the absolute worst.
ME: And like you’d know. You’ve never even touched a dick.
WINNIE: But I’ve seen them in porn.
WINNIE: Oh, and that one time Ben Sanders flashed everybody when he streaked across the football field.
WINNIE: Course that’s when everyone started calling him Tiny Ben.
WINNIE: But back to your situation. He’s your husband now.
ME: Still…
WINNIE: When was the last time you had an orgasm without batteries involved?
ME: Why are you like this?
WINNIE: I require an answer.
ME: Uh… never.
WINNIE: Wait…
WINNIE: Seriously?
WINNIE: All that time with Colt?
ME: First of all, I wouldn’t let him touch me the last three years of our marriage.
ME: Initially he would try, but nothing ever worked.
ME: I think I might be frigid.
ME: I faked it with Colt. Even from the beginning.
WINNIE: Why did you never tell me this before?
ME: What would have been the point?
WINNIE: All the more reason for you to consummate your marriage.
ME: Well, it won’t be happening tonight.
ME: Also, I still haven’t told him y’all are in the hotel suite.