Begin Again
t she shared with her friends. She took off her shoes and snuck insi
rs of eyes, shining with anticipation, her pla
s red as the angry birds T-shirt Sie
Lydia sniffed the air dramatically, and
ngue disapprovingly. "So much fo
g when she peeked inside. She hated any store-bought goodies because she knew she could do a way
ins? What happened to diamonds being a girl's best friend? Who is this guy?" She threw he
to the living room where Cassandra sat on the grey L-shaped couch poring over a ne
role and kept everyone in line. Lydia, the rebellious child, kept them all on their toes with all her mischief. And Eden's sainthood, which she had now lost o
nna yelled from the kitchen, her voice competi
tically jumping from her position
t when they first moved in, and they've fought over it since. Not because it was so comfortable, but because of the sun sneaking through the lace-curtained windows behin
in!" Sienna squealed as she rushed in with a tray of steaming yellow mugs an
ing!" Eden said cros
sex clinging all over you,
lf, sending her friends in
lons of milk, it was still bitter. Sienna didn't make good coffee, and they
r air, struggling to breathe and laugh a
Sienna rolled on the couch, t
. She would never tell her friends this, and she figured they knew the answer anyway, but yes, hi
embered how full she'd felt when Liam was buried deep
practically drooling." Lydia screa
the moistness at her centre. She didn't understand
, all the amusement gone from her eyes. "Wa
and tenderness she felt every time she moved, she had no complaints. She wouldn't mind seconds and thirds and maybe tenth
nd Eden blinked, stunned by the expe
asses and bit her lower lip
eamed in unison, jumping and
again?" Sienna ask
r head and bu
e to cry?" Cassandra asked as they
ears dripping down her face. "He's getting married, and
ried?" Lydia's eyes were wide with
re as she took a Kleenex box from Sienna and blew her nose. For someone so tiny, she al
's no way Rock Castle's numero uno bill
t on to explain how she found
ere there? To celebra
nod
with him?" Sienna fumed. "
easy to let him take all the blame, but she couldn'
tting married?" Cassandra asked in a patient
irl for twenty-four years, followed all the rules, saved myself for the right guy and what the hell do I ha
sorry," Cassan
ng, and I shouldn't have, and now I'm as nasty as Olive for sleeping with someone else's man. But I got tired of playing fair, and I was hurting. And you kno
. "You sound like you h
he couldn't understand how Sienna
ound guy. I'm still
at?" Lydia glared at the Princess cu
sandra repeated what she's bee
was tacky as fuck, and she should have returned it. But it was the only tangible thing she had to remind her
jointly adopted from the animal shelter they volu
er coffee and placed the mug on the bamboo cof
off. Her parents, in not so many words, had made it very clear the end of her engagement was solely her fault.
heavy, brightly coloured duvet and the millions of scatter cus
t Liam filled her troubled mind was if she'd eve