Anna Adams - Owen's Best Intentions

“We’re going to Tennessee,” Lilah said, startling herself, as well as Owen and Ben.

“That place where Own lives?”

She nodded. “He wants you to meet his family because they’re also your family. I want to go with you because I’ll miss you too much if you go on your own.”

Water bubbled over the pasta saucepan to sizzle on the stovetop. Lilah sprang to her feet. “I may have to start this over.”

“It’ll be fine.” Owen appeared beside her. “Looks good.”

She had a feeling he was thanking her for making this sojourn in Tennessee look like her idea. She didn’t want his thanks. She looped a piece of pasta on a fork and tasted. “It is good. Ready, Ben?”

“I’m done with my salad.”

Owen collected the salad plates from the table and took them to the sink. He picked up the top plate on a stack of three for the pasta. His frozen gaze had melted a little when he looked into hers.

“Thank you,” he said.

“Fighting you is pointless.” She couldn’t pretend she’d been wrong, and if she let him see she had any awareness she’d cheated him of these years with Ben, he’d grab back all the time he could. “We’re not moving to Tennessee.”

Owen glanced at Ben, but answered with a smile. “We’ll work out a custody schedule. I don’t mind flying to pick him up and bring him back.”

She resented him all over again for acting as if he were being perfectly amenable. “You are not human.”

He laughed, but the sound lifted all the hairs on her arms, while Ben watched them, his mouth open.

“You might have a point,” Owen said in a tone only she could hear. “And I still can’t believe you took Ben from me. But I’m going to make sure I make things different for him.”

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