Seducing Their Wayfaring Souls [3xtasy Lake 7] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) Read Online Free Page B

and then sure enough a text from Cris popped up on the screen.
    My place for dinner, bring beer, I have steaks. Want to talk about Tara and Zack.
    Lars stared at the screen and weighed his options. There were a few reasons why Cris would want to meet for dinner, but he suspected this had more to do with a conversation the two of them had had on and off over the past few years. Ecstasy Lake was home to a few successful polyrelationships and it seemed Fate had done more matchmaking in the past couple years. Cris liked the idea of sharing a woman and suggested one day the two of them might find the perfect woman to fit between them. Lars had never met another man he would be willing to share with other than Cris. The two of them had developed a fast friendship over bikes and a need not to discuss their own pasts.
    Tara didn’t seem the type of woman to divide her time between two men and would probably run screaming in the opposite direction from anyone who might suggest it. Her focus in life was her son, and there wouldn’t be any room for anyone else. Lars had travelled this path before. Beatrice had lived for her children. They’d always come first in her life and she’d reminded them often that he hadn’t been their father. He’d loved her more than anything in all his years of travelling the earth, but when her children had grown and moved on to families of their own she’d missed them terribly. Life without her children hadn’t been enough for Beatrice, and when she’d gotten sick, she hadn’t had any real reason to live. She’d said she’d cared about him and had been sorry she hadn’t done more for him, which had been ridiculous. All he’d ever wanted was her love and in the end she’d left him to wander again. She’d insisted on moving in with her son and left him alone.
    He’d wandered for years after that. He’d loved her so much, but no matter how much he’d done, she never returned his feelings. Until today he’d been certain that Beatrice had been his one chance at happiness in this life.
    He texted back, See you at seven, and then turned the phone off again. Lamenting over the past hadn’t ever done him any good, and for all he knew Cris had thought about a way to help Tara get to her destination. That was what Lars planned to do. He’d help her get back on her feet and healthy and then send her and her son on their way before they found their way into anyone’s heart. There was no path to his own. It had been blocked off long before.

Chapter Three
     
    Tara hadn’t been in many hotels in her lifetime, but the bed she currently lay on was the most comfortable one she’d ever been on in her entire life. The sound of cartoons playing in the other room was like background noise, but it wasn’t lulling her to sleep. She’d tried to have a nap but didn’t have any luck. Her thoughts were revolving around the fact this was much too nice of a hotel and there was no way she could afford such luxurious accommodations.
    Jessica had introduced her to Albert, who’d insisted on giving her two rooms but said he would only charge her for one. Even one room she wasn’t certain she could afford, but if it was only for a night or two then she would scrimp later.
    The hotel was very close to the clinic. Everything in this town was close together. The main street was only a few blocks long, but there were a lot of interesting things to see. There was a yarn shop and a museum in the same building. The second floor was a radio station. Across the street from there was an arcade Zack had immediately wanted to check out and then a couple of tourist-type shops. There was a small restaurant, an ice-cream shop, and a double-decker bus that had been converted into a food truck.
    Tara tried to calculate how much money they had and what she could afford to spend on food. Maybe if she got something big somewhere and split it with Zack. She’d finish whatever he didn’t. She wasn’t all that hungry anyways and