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on his face. “I really missed you.” He told her before he pulled her up and began to pull her back down again, thrusting into her as if he had never come.
    When he came a second time, she collapsed onto him and tried to get her breathing under control as he wrapped his arms around her. “I missed you, too.” She whispered to him as she yawned and stifled a giggle .

Chapter Seven
    “Why are you humming like that?” Priscilla asked as she sat down on one of the kitchen chairs and hugged a mug of coffee with her hands.
    “Oh, I’m sorry, does happiness in the morning upset you?” Elaine asked cheerily as she flipped a pancake and smiled down at Thomas, idly watching her make his breakfast.
    “When my daughter, who’s never happy in the morning, is humming, I’m worried that she’s going to commit a heinous crime. Maybe she’s thinking about burying me in the backyard six feet under right now.”
    “What’s six feet under?” Thomas asked innocently, ever observant now that he was older and able to understand all that they said.
    “Nothing,” the two of them chimed at the same time.
    “I’m just happy, is all,” Elaine answered as she plopped the pancakes onto a plate and sat Thomas down at the table. She held the glass mixing bowl over the hot griddle questionably as she looked at her mother. Priscilla shrugged a shoulder and Elaine took that as a yes.
    She was nervous about bringing up Ethan with her son around, but she was going to have to eventually. Just not today, so she didn’t tell her mother that he was home. “So are you working today?” Priscilla inquired like she did every morning.
    Elaine looked at her son and felt a pang of guilt, but she had spent a lot of time with him and she figured it would be okay that for one day she took the day off and spent it with someone else. She still didn’t want to break it to him, so she didn’t answer her mother right away. Thomas swung his feet back and forth as he ate, but she knew that despite his engrossment with the pancakes, he was still listening.
    When he slid out of his chair and washed his hands and face at the sink, she sent him to change for his play date with Jacob. “I’m not working today,” she told her mother quietly as she cleaned up her morning mess.
    “I figured as much. So when will you be back? And when are you going to introduce him properly?” Priscilla prodded uncharacteristically.
    “Soon,” Elaine told her mother before she gave her a kiss on the cheek and ran up the stairs to get ready herself.
    She walked Thomas across the lawn to Jacob’s home and greeted him at the door. They exchanged hellos, goodbyes, and a young boy. Once Thomas was settled in, Elaine walked across the street to the dark car parked in between the others. She slid into the passenger seat and took a deep breath.
    “Good morning,” Ethan purred as he reached his hand across the center console to take hers.
    “We need to talk,” she told him quietly as she looked at him and took his hand. She didn’t want him to think that he had done anything wrong.
    “I know,” Ethan said as he started the car and put it in reverse. He didn’t say anything as he drove her out of town and pulled into the parking lot of the nearby state park. It was just starting to flurry, but Elaine had read the weather report that morning and knew that it was only going to be a quarter of an inch at best.
    Ethan turned off the car and they sat in silence. “Why did you bring me here?” she whispered as she looked around at the trees.
    “Well, if I had taken you to a diner, there’d be people who could overhear. If I had taken you home, my mother would try to fatten you up with leftover grits. And I figured you didn’t want to go back inside with your mother because she’d force us to read the cards. So, an empty parking lot on a day where it’s snowing so no one will go hiking seems pretty good, right? Oh, I brought provisions.”
    He reached into the back and