Eliza waited at the bar for her husband. Vance had stayed upstairs and their room was still available. He understood that she needed to see Rafe.
Rafe walked into the bar and Eliza felt her heart leap, a combination of excitement and adrenaline. Her husband sat down beside her, his wedding band bright under the light.
“So have you sorted everything out with her?” Eliza could even hear that the extra intonation of her meant that she did not even want to say Kelly’s name.
“Eliza,” he started as his drink was handed to him and she swirled her wine. “Eliza, I never meant to hurt you, Bibi.”
“Rafe, I know,” she said. “This is my fault too.”
Rafe touched her arm and Eliza took his hand in hers.
“You were with Vance?” Rafe asked.
“He is upstairs,” Eliza said. “It is not about him.”
“I need to know if we are good,” he asked, putting his hand on her knee.
“What really can make us not good?” Eliza asked and she looked at her husband. After everything they had been through, she really did wonder what would make them not good?
“Nothing Eliza, nothing. Kelly…”
Eliza winced when he said Kelly’s name, but she knew she was not a threat now just from looking at Rafe.
“What about her,” Eliza asked, picking up her drink.
“I just got close to her and I told her personal things and I was wrong about what was between us.”
“Did you tell her things that you did not tell me?”
Rafe bit his lip.
Eliza took his hands.
“Tell me.”
Rafe shifted on his bar stool,
“That time that Oscar and I spooned.”
Eliza bit her lip now, she remembered that night. Both of them sexy and in bed with her, that was how she slept a lot of nights but Rafe had never told her anything about him and Oscar.
“Did something happen?”
“No,” her husband said, shaking his head. “But I have fantasized about it.”
“Alessa told me that you were with a man before…”
“I have never been with a man before Eliza.”
“Did you sleep with Kelly because you were nervous to sleep with Oscar? Did you really want to explore something with Oscar? We are all so close now…”
Rafe looked away from her. Eliza squeezed his knee. The three of them had their dynamic going for quite some time and she believed that anything could happen. She loved them both and she had Alessa who was the first woman she was with. Rafe could do anything he wanted if he wanted to be with Oscar.
Her phone buzzed.
Is he there, she saw twin messages from Oscar and Vance. Eliza texted Oscar back first.
Come meet us…
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