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Ilie on the couch after a long day of work. “I can’t believe you let my grandma suck you in.”
“She cornered me. I guess it’s something I used to plan for them.” Lucy lies on me and kisses me. “And you used to come with me apparently.”
It’s unreal how much I took this for granted at one time. “I don’t want to spend our night entertaining old people drawing weird things. Plus, they argue all the time and it’s annoying.”
“What can I do to persuade you?” She wiggles on me, her core sliding along my crotch.
“Keep doing that and we’re not going anywhere.” I still her hips with my hands.
“How about a little strip tease afterward?” She sits up and grabs the hem of her shirt, pulling it up her torso.
“No sense if we can’t finish. Let’s just get this over with.” I groan and move her off my lap so I can go take a shower. “I swear they’re the only retirement center up past six.” I head up the stairs to the bathroom, but I stop at the top and look at her below. “Did you talk to your mom today?”
Lucy’s smile dims. “I did.”
I lean on the railing at the top of the stairs. “I take it things didn’t go well?”
She pulls her knees up to her chest. “You take it right.”
I mentally curse Susan. I want to tell Lucy how much better off she is without them. But instead, I inhale a deep breath. “Well, maybe we just keep trying. If it’s important to you.”
“They’re pretty set in their decision.”
“Well, they were set in it before, but they welcomed you with open arms after you left Sunrise Bay.”
She stands, and my eyes follow her across the room to the stairs. She starts to climb them.
Grandma Ethel better give me the best grandson award after this. Look what I’m missing out on by leaving tonight.
“I didn’t go home to them right away,” she says. “My mom said I wasn’t home long before I fell off the horse. Where would I have gone?”
“I wish I knew.”
She meets me at the top of the stairs. “Me too.”
My hands land on her hips and she steps forward until we’re chest to chest.
“We can be a little late.” She strips off her shirt, tossing it on the floor.
I’ll let her distract herself this once, but sooner or later, we’re going to have to figure this out. Her parents are going to be the same issue they were when we first got together.
An hour later, I park my truck outside Northern Lights Retirement Center. Lucy started twice-monthly drawing nights years ago when Grandma Ethel acted as though the peeps at Northern Lights Retirement Center were twiddling their thumbs in boredom. It was nice of Lucy, and even though I don’t want to be here, how could I argue with her? I know her agenda is to get me to spend quality time with my grandma.
Lucy puts her arm through mine. “Relax, it’s only an hour. Didn’t you enjoy it before?”
I only enjoy when I’m left alone to draw, which doesn’t happen here—ever. I shrug in answer to her question. “So are we telling my grandma we’re a couple again? Because if we do, she’s gonna tell everyone.”
She stops right before we get to the entrance. “It’s up to you. What do you want to do?”
I’m not really up for a secret relationship, but I’m also not up for public humiliation if this blows up in my face. I hate the idea of a town scandal and gossip about the two of us.
“What are you comfortable with?” I run my finger along her hairline and tuck the one strand that’s fallen out of her ponytail behind her ear.
“Whatever you’re comfortable doing.”
“I’d like us to come out. Better than people catching wind of it and making up their own narrative.”
She smiles and presses her body to mine. “I guess we’re coming out.”
