Part Two

Lily closes the door to her house and leans against it. She wipes at the tears that had tracked down her cheeks unchecked while she had driven home from the hospital...from witnessing a beautiful moment between her family that she so desperately wanted to be a part of yet she felt this tremendous anger at the same time for doing so. 

“Goddamnit!! Our family was in such a good place. We were so solid, so in love...” Lily’s feelings turn to doubt and then to anger, it’s like she’s on the craziest rollercoaster ride of emotions and she has no idea how to get off. Cause it always comes back to one thing and one thing only and that is Cane had a child with another woman...

She kicks the bottom of the door with the heel of her foot relishing the sting as she steps away from it. Startled by a soft knock she figured the twins forgot their keys again. She wipes quickly at her cheeks trying to hide the evidence of her tears from them before opening the door.

“Don’t tell me you both forgot your keys agai-.” She stops mid sentence when she sees it’s Cane leaning against the door frame. “I thought you were -.”

“The twins? I know, sorry to disappoint you but could I come in?”

Lily opens the door wider and steps aside to let him in. “You’re not disappointing me, I just thought you would still be at the hospital..I mean that’s where I figured you be.” Lily tries to discreetly rub at her cheeks still feeling the wetness of her tears and god she did not want Cane to notice.

Cane stares down at her...watching as Lily refuses to meet his gaze, rubbing at her cheeks trying in vain to hide the tears he knows he’s responsible for...

“Sweetheart...sweetheart please look at me.” Cane gently grasps both her wrists in one hand, slowly lowering her hands from her face.  

Using his free hand he clasps her chin with his thumb and forefinger and slowly raises her head. “Lily I saw you at the hospital, I told Mattie and Charlie you were there but when I looked back again you were gone. Why did you leave?” He holds her gaze watching so many emotions reflected there.

At first he doesn’t even realize he’s doing it but when he hears the catch in Lily’s breath his eyes track to her lips and he watches his thumb slowly glide across the bottom one...

Almost as if in a trance he can’t stop the pull towards the only woman he’s ever truly loved. “Lily I -.” His hand slides up along her jaw, his fingertips drift along her cheek before cupping her face in his palm. His eyes lock with hers, he lets go of her wrists and grasps the back of her head his fingers clenching her hair. God it’s been so long since he’s held her like this, he watches her lids lower and he can’t take it anymore.

Cane closed those last few inches between them, hell it was Lily that pulled him in her fingers having found a firm grasp at the back of his arms. His mouth fused to hers, his tongue slipping inside to explore and caress...Cane presses Lily against the wall in the foyer...her hands slide up his arms, over his shoulder to grasp the back of his neck...his arousal hardening against her belly...

The slamming of car doors were like a cold bucket of water being dumped on Lily, breaking the kiss she slides her hands down to his chest and gives a firm shove.

Still trying to catch her breath she says, “Cane stop. The twins are home. We can’t let them see us like this.”

It’s on the tip of Canes tongue to argue this point but to risk whatever possible progress this is, he knows he needs to go with Lily on this. “You’re right, we can’t give them any false hope.”

“Cane I don’t know what’s going to happen, there is so many things I still need to work through.” She bends her head and presses it against his chest..trying to collect herself..trying to hang on..she just didn’t know anymore.

Cane leans over pressing a kiss to the top of her head and says softly, “I know sweetheart.” Before stepping back as the door opens and Mattie and Charlie walk in....