Begin Again

t she shared with her friends. She took off her shoes and snuck insi

rs of eyes, shining with anticipation, her pla

s red as the angry birds T-shirt Sie

Lydia sniffed the air dramatically, and

ngue disapprovingly. "So much fo

g when she peeked inside. She hated any store-bought goodies because she knew she could do a way

ins? What happened to diamonds being a girl's best friend? Who is this guy?" She threw he

to the living room where Cassandra sat on the grey L-shaped couch poring over a ne

role and kept everyone in line. Lydia, the rebellious child, kept them all on their toes with all her mischief. And Eden's sainthood, which she had now lost o

nna yelled from the kitchen, her voice competi

tically jumping from her position

t when they first moved in, and they've fought over it since. Not because it was so comfortable, but because of the sun sneaking through the lace-curtained windows behin

in!" Sienna squealed as she rushed in with a tray of steaming yellow mugs an

ing!" Eden said cros

sex clinging all over you,

lf, sending her friends in

lons of milk, it was still bitter. Sienna didn't make good coffee, and they

r air, struggling to breathe and laugh a

Sienna rolled on the couch, t

. She would never tell her friends this, and she figured they knew the answer anyway, but yes, hi

embered how full she'd felt when Liam was buried deep

practically drooling." Lydia screa

the moistness at her centre. She didn't understand

, all the amusement gone from her eyes. "Wa

and tenderness she felt every time she moved, she had no complaints. She wouldn't mind seconds and thirds and maybe tenth

nd Eden blinked, stunned by the expe

asses and bit her lower lip

eamed in unison, jumping and

again?" Sienna ask

r head and bu

e to cry?" Cassandra asked as they

ears dripping down her face. "He's getting married, and

ried?" Lydia's eyes were wide with

re as she took a Kleenex box from Sienna and blew her nose. For someone so tiny, she al

's no way Rock Castle's numero uno bill

t on to explain how she found

ere there? To celebra

nod

with him?" Sienna fumed. "

easy to let him take all the blame, but she couldn'

tting married?" Cassandra asked in a patient

irl for twenty-four years, followed all the rules, saved myself for the right guy and what the hell do I ha

sorry," Cassan

ng, and I shouldn't have, and now I'm as nasty as Olive for sleeping with someone else's man. But I got tired of playing fair, and I was hurting. And you kno

. "You sound like you h

he couldn't understand how Sienna

ound guy. I'm still

at?" Lydia glared at the Princess cu

sandra repeated what she's bee

was tacky as fuck, and she should have returned it. But it was the only tangible thing she had to remind her

jointly adopted from the animal shelter they volu

er coffee and placed the mug on the bamboo cof

off. Her parents, in not so many words, had made it very clear the end of her engagement was solely her fault.

heavy, brightly coloured duvet and the millions of scatter cus

t Liam filled her troubled mind was if she'd eve