Page 46 of Affair
He didn’t hold back.
“Seeing him.”
Oh, fuckity.
Yeah, Elizabeth didn’t like the sound of that.
Not.
At.
All.
With her, she liked to punch her ex’s in the face after they hurt her.
That Gene wasn’t going there first…
Ruh-roh.
The bottom line was Ethan was stupid in love with Gene, and always had been. When he left last time, that put Ethan on her path. Then, so many years later, she put Ethan back on Gene’s.
Fate had a plan, and now, she had to worry about mitigating the outcome.
What was the potential outcome?
Ethan’s.
Broken.
Heart.
Elizabeth knew it was now or never.
“I need to be honest with you, Gene,” she admitted to him. “We’ve all been waiting for this moment before you and Ethan get hitched. We’ve all been fearing it.”
That seemed to have caught him off-guard.
He blinked.
“Why do you fear it?” he inquired.
That befuddled him.
To.
His.
Core.
“Because Ethan feels like you might change your mind about this, and honestly, we’re all in that same boat, thinking that too.”
From beside her, Gene went silent for a good minute before he finally spoke.
“You guys really believe that I’ll change my mind? About my family?” he asked.
She nodded.
“I think we’re all scared,” she admitted, being honest with him. “The outcome of this affects all of our lives.”
