“No, Jaxon. She isn’t here,” She answered with a “go to hell” look on her face.
“Do you know where she is?” I asked. I was having a hard time making eye contact with her. I knew that she knew what had happened earlier.
“She doesn’t want to see you right now, son. You need to give her some time. To be perfectly honest with ya, I’m not real happy with ya either.”
How could she be? I had just hurt her daughter. I hadn’t meant to, but I was shocked when I saw Stacy. I didn’t know what the hell to do.
“Mrs. Harper, it was never my intention to hurt Loralei. I love that woman, so damn much. I need to fix this. Please tell me where she is.” I was almost begging.
“I think you need to go home and sleep on it. Think about what’s happened and how you intend to fix it. Give Lor some time to think about things too,” She said.
I couldn’t argue with her. I was sure Lor needed some time to think. I couldn’t stand the thought of not seeing her until tomorrow, but it was better this way.
“Did she go on to Joplin?” I asked sheepishly.
“She did, Jaxon. But I’m asking you to give her until tomorrow. I think you both need to calm down before you do something you wish you hadn’t.”
I agreed to not go to her until tomorrow, but that didn’t keep me from calling her. I knew she wouldn’t answer, but I called anyway. I didn’t sleep a wink and didn’t even change my clothes. Nothing mattered until I could speak with Loralei tomorrow…just a few hours and I could try to fix this.
Chapter 7
Loralei
I had to get away from Cade, but how? We were in my room and once again I was struck with disbelief at what I had done. I called home to check on the kids and wish them good luck at school while I thought up a polite way to get Cade to go the hell away.
When I finally walked back into the bedroom, Cade was awake and on the phone.
“Yeah, a couple of western omelets, fried potatoes, and some biscuits. Thank ya kindly ma’am.”
He looked up at me. “I thought you might be hungry after last night, so I ordered us some breakfast.”
All I could say was, “Thanks.” I was having a hard time even looking at him, every time I did I could hear him howling or see a flash of him on top of me or hear some of the dirty things he said during sex.
He got out of bed and walked to the bathroom, still naked, not a care in the world. When I saw him walk away, I realized why my lady parts were so damn sore - that man was huge and I mean huge in every way. I was surprised he didn’t split me in two with that damn thing.
But if I was so repulsed by it, why did I get kind of excited when I thought of him maybe wanting to do that again? I really was a slut. What had happened to sweet little naïve Lor? I didn’t know, but this Lor was going to enjoy life and do whatever she needed to do to forget all about what’s-his-name. The man I would now refer to as “asshat.”
Breakfast was delivered, and Cade came walking in with a towel wrapped around his waist while he used another towel to dry his short blonde hair. We sat and ate in silence. A couple of times when I ventured a look up, I noticed he was staring at me. With the whole “Cade’s in my bed naked” debacle this morning I forgot to turn my phone off. Apparently Jaxon was awake because it was now ringing non-stop.
“Aren’t ya gonna answer that, hon’?” Cade said, scrunching his eyebrows at me.
I just shook my head and shoveled a huge bite of omelet into my mouth.
All of a sudden Cade’s face got really serious. “I need to ask you a question hon. Is that your husband you’re ignorin’?”
I couldn’t believe he thought that. How could he think I would do something so horrible? I mean I knew he didn’t know me at all, but what kind of woman would do something like that?
“I would never do that. I’m not married now. Actually, I’ve never been married.”
He looked really relieved. “That’s good to hear hon, real good.”