She Took My Husband on My Wedding Night, I Didn't Find Out Until We Gave Birth Together novel · Chapter 11 of 32
Chapter 11: Firefighter Lover
The car rolled to a stop ten feet from us.
Cormac turned, putting his body between me and the light.
The rear window slid down.
Bradford sat in the back seat with his tie loosened. In the front passenger seat, a man had a camera with a lens as long as my forearm.
The flash went off. Then again.
"Smile, Clementine," Bradford said.
"Get out of the car and say that," Cormac said.
"I don't think I will." Bradford looked at Cormac's hand, still on my hip. "You just stood in front of two hundred people and called me a monster. Then you came down here and did this. Thank you. My lawyer's going to frame it."
"Drive," Bradford said.
The window went up.
The car went down the ramp.
Cormac didn't move for a second.
"I'm sorry," he said.
"For what?"
"For whatever that costs you."
"You didn't kiss me," I said. "I kissed you."
"I was there. I participated."
"You participated very well."
He looked down at me, and his ears went red to the tips.
The story ran Monday morning.
The lieutenant read it out loud at breakfast, standing at the head of the table.
"Kingsford Wife's Firefighter Lover," he read. "Heiress's mother caught in steamy garage clinch with hunky first responder, hours after ugly outburst at family charity lunch."
"Hunky," the probie said.
The photo took up half the page.
My back against the truck. Cormac's hand in my hair. My hands fisted in his shirt.
You couldn't see either of our faces clearly. You could see enough.
They'd used one blurry frame from the ballroom too, me at the microphone in my floury sweater, mouth open, looking unhinged.
Nobody had printed what I'd said.
My phone buzzed all day with reporters.
On Wednesday my legal aid lawyer called.
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