Page 2 of Seduced at Stevens Street
I was speechless!
He embraced me. “It’s okay, baby. I forgive you.” And just like that, he turned it around in his mind. Asshole!
He kissed me again and pulled my nightshirt off. Oh, makeup sex. He had already shifted into that mode. He made a point of showing me as he licked his fingers. Then he dropped them down and between my legs.
“Lie down, baby. I’ll make you feel good.”
I tried to block out the rest of it and just focus on what his fingers were doing to me. I wasn’t sure how we had gotten to this point. Sex had never been swinging from the chandeliers amazing, but it hadn’t been like this in the beginning, either. He used to get me off. I used to have orgasms. We enjoyed lengthy lovemaking sessions where we both spent a lot of time pleasuring each other, where we wanted to spend time pleasuring each other.
Maybe it was unrealistic that it would remain the same after six years. All I knew was I didn’t want this for the rest of my life. I wanted exciting, and I was no longer willing to accept insert A into B, fold over C, repeat A and B until he comes. And that’s what it was. I was slightly aroused when Gary finished. He came. He was done. He kissed me goodnight, rolled over, and I heard his soft snores. He was fulfilled. I was far from it.
Chapter 2
Logan
Too much was changing too quickly. I didn’t fault Andy for finding Kenzie and falling in love. Trina needed a mother, and Kenzie was a great mother to her. And watching Andy and Kenzie together, well, it almost made me believe in true love and happily-ever-afters. Well, for Andy anyway. I knew that shit wasn’t for me. The thought of being with only one woman for the rest of my life was inconceivable.
I just wished they hadn’t had to move from the apartment. Four years. Four years of seeing Trina every day and then nothing.Sure, Andy and Kenzie both had told me I was welcome anytime, and they encouraged me to come see Trina, even specifically invited me over several days a week for dinner, a beer, whatever. But it just wasn’t the same. And now that Kenzie was showing, so far along in her pregnancy, man, the fact that they were a family that I was not a part of just couldn’t be ignored. Andy and Trina, Ashley and me, we had been a family. For four years. I missed my family. I know it has only been five months since they moved, but it feels like it has been forever.
I entered the office, summoned by Andy. He was probably planning to take more time off and wanted to be sure I would cover everything. I didn’t fault him for that either. For four years, he killed himself, taking off practically no time at all unless Trina was sick. He deserved it. His new family deserved it.
“Hey man,” I greeted as I entered. Kenzie was there too. I hadn’t expected that. She normally wasn’t in this early. “Hi Kenz.”
They both smiled and greeted me. They exchanged looks that put me on edge. “Logan, close the door for a sec, will you?” Andy said.
This couldn’t be good. The gym was half empty, no reason to worry about who would hear our conversation. I closed the door as requested and leaned against it. “What’s up?”
“Logan,” Kenzie began. “I have to apologize to you. I’m assuming it’s me because I’m the only thing that has changed in the equation.”
“I don’t understand,” I said.
“I’m really pissed at you, man,” Andy chimed in. I was shocked to hear him say that to me. In all the years we’d known each other, Andy had never told me he was pissed at me, and there were plenty of times he would have had the right.
“Trina misses you, Logan,” Kenzie said. “You’ve declined dinner twice this week, and she doesn’t understand why her Uncle Logan hasn’t been around. She was used to seeing you every day before we moved, and this is a hard adjustment for her.”
“Awe, Kenz,” I said, running my hand through my hair. “I love Trina; you guys know that. Things are different now. You guys are a family. You don’t need me hanging around.”
“So, you’ve just been trying to give us space?” Andy asked.
I shrugged.
“Well, we don’t want our space. Trina needs you in her life now, just as much as she did before.”
My heart squeezed in my chest, and I felt, well, I felt like a heel that I hadn’t been around to see her. “I just haven’t wanted to intrude.”
“If I made you feel that way at all, I am sorry, Logan,” Kenzie said. She rose from her seat and came over to me, hugging me. I felt her enlarged stomach press against me.
“Thanks, Kenz, and no, you haven’t. You’re her mom now, and I just wanted to give time for you both to settle into your new lives.”
“We’re settled, thank you. Now come more often, will you?”
“As a matter of fact, I think it would do Trina good to come see you at your place too,” Andy said. “She’s used to going out our door to your place like she owned it all.” Andy laughed. “Uncle Logan’s place was always more fun than home!”
I laughed as well. “I’ve missed her a lot.”
“So, dinner tonight? And then maybe you could take her back to your apartment for a few hours?” Kenzie asked with a smile.
“I’ll come get her before bedtime,” Andy added. “I have a couple of clients due after dinner.”
