Lilian Darcy - The One Who Changed Everything

“I think you’re wrong.”

“About the marriage, or about what Emma wants?”

“Both. It’s not like she and I haven’t talked about this.”

“She’s scared to say it. She needs it to come from you.”

“No, Mom. We’ve been married three years. If there was any possibility of it turning into the real thing, it would have happened by now. There’s no chemistry and there never has been.”

“Chemistry? You get on so well together...”

“Because we’ve given each other plenty of space. Because we’ve been clear about the whole arrangement.”

“Emma wants the arrangement to change,” she said firmly, then added as a signal that she wasn’t going to keep on about it. “Now, are you staying for coffee and a bite to eat? I have cake.”

“Sure, I have time. That would be nice.”

When he’d finished the coffee and cake that his mom had pressed on him and they’d talked about Carla and Mattie, and how well they were both doing in New York City, and how it would be nice if one or both of them moved back closer, as well as easy things like TV shows and the weather, he left with that familiar sense of having hosed down a potential emotional crisis.

Or two of them.

His marriage, and Jonah.

Although this wasn’t fair, because his mom had changed the subject pretty fast both times, and when it came to action rather than talk, she’d behaved as sensibly and decently about Dad’s affair and Tucker’s own unusual marriage as she possibly could.

And that was exactly the way he was going to behave about Daisy Cherry. Sensible and decent.

Maybe it was good that his mom had run into Jonah today. It gave Tucker a very necessary reminder of how much he hated complicated, emotionally messy entanglements. Giving in to an attraction to his ex-fiancée’s sister while his green-card marriage was still a legal reality was quite a bit more complicated and messy than he wanted.

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