Chapter Thirty-Three Maddison Helps Her Ex

While Shane and I are still getting ourselves together after that great session of lovemaking, I hear a knock on my door. I go to answer it, and there standing at my door drunk as a skunk is my ex-husband Gabriel. Gabriel, what are you doing here, I say to him. I’m sorry he said to me, I had no other place to go since I did not want to go home to an empty house. He looks just as Shane walks down the hallway with his shirt still off and a bit of paint on him.

Oh, I see you have company, so sorry didn’t mean to bother you. I will just leave now. Gabe, I mean Gabriel just wait why don’t come on my side so you can sober up? It looks as if you have had a long night. He comes and sits on the couch. Shane looks at me with this grim line on his face. Look, I know you may not approve of me helping him. After all, I said that I would be there for him when he needed me. It looks as if he does need me. Okay, then I will help you with him.

Shane puts his shirt back on, buttoning it up while