Untitled Novel - Chapters 2 & 3 - Sex Stories

Untitled Novel - Chapters 2 & 3

... flashed across her large brown doe eyes.

In a moment of genuine sincerity between the long-time friends, Olivia reached over and put her hand on Whitney’s. “Whit, you know, you don’t have to say yes if you’re not ready.”

Whitney’s head snapped back to Olivia as she yanked her hand away. “Why wouldn’t I say yes?” she replied a little too defensively. “I love Theo,” she added, although she wasn’t able to keep eye contact as she said that last part, instead looking past Olivia at the brick wall behind her head.

“Of course you do. That’s obvious,” Olivia said with a reassuring smile. “All I’m saying is that you don’t need to feel obligated to marry him just because you’ve been together for a long time. It just seems like ever since I told you, you’ve been on edge a bit. Like you’re more stressed out about it than happy.”

Whitney let out another exasperated sigh. “I’m fine. It’s just, knowing that it’s coming at any moment is making me nervous.” She gave her friend a resolute look as she reached back to coil her long hair into a loose bun, securing it at the back of her head. Olivia had known her friend long enough to know that she did this compulsively when she was stressing. “I’m fine.” Olivia couldn’t help but feel like Whitney was trying to convince herself of this more than she was Olivia.

After a moment, in an uncharacteristically hostile way of deflecting attention back to Olivia, Whitney brought up what she had to have known was the sorest of sore subjects ...

... with her long-time friend. “What aboutyourlove life, Liv? It sounds like Sophie’s moving back to The States. Have you heard from her yet?”

Olivia’s face fell at the mention of that name. “What’s that supposed to mean? Where did you hear that?”

Whitney sighed, seemingly already regretful for bringing up the name that carried so many different emotions for Olivia. “I had lunch with Dana Kerry yesterday. Apparently they still keep in touch. She mentioned that Sophie and her husband are getting divorced… and she’s moving back.”

“Huh.” Olivia stared out the window, not knowing how to process what she had just heard.

Sophie.

She was getting divorced.

And she was coming back.

Olivia hadn’t seen or spoken to Sophie in over two years. The woman she had once loved more than anyone else in the world. The woman that had said ‘yes’ to Olivia the night she proposed during a candlelit dinner five years ago. The woman that had shattered Olivia’s heart six months before their wedding, leaving her blindsided and broken. The same woman that came back into her life two years ago, pulling Olivia back in, just to play the same cruel games and break her heart all over again.

But Olivia was done with Sophie. She was done pining for a woman that had manipulated and lied to her more times than she could count. She was a different person now. She wouldn’t let Sophie pull her back into her orbit, just to send her crashing back down to earth as soon as she got bored again.

“I’m ...