Never Number Two

Summary

Audrey and I had been together since college. Eight years. We were weeks away from the wedding when she told me.

She wanted to bring the great love of her life, Leo, into our marriage. Both of us, serving her.

I felt a vein begin to throb in my temple, a low, hot drumbeat of rage. I kept my voice level. "Are you saying you want your old flame to be your affair on the side?"

Audrey just shook her head, a lock of perfect blonde hair falling across her face. “He wouldn’t be the one on the side, Cole. You would.”

I stared at her, the sound in the room seeming to warp and bend.