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Penulis: Novelstarr Juliana
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-07-25 09:38:59
Millie POV

He used the wrong word. I keep coming back to this. I keep chewing on the corner of my thumbnail in the upstairs bathroom of my own house, looking at my own face in the mirror, and I keep coming back to this. He said should. He said “this is what it should be.” Should. As if the life we have been stealing in garages and pantries and kitchen counters and on the grass of a lake we don't own was the correct arrangement of the universe, and my mother, three hundred miles south, was the in
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  • Step Daddy's Lakeside Sin    The Argument

    (Millie POV)I picked a fight at six forty-five on a Wednesday evening because I am not, at twenty-three, the kind of woman who is good at waiting for explanations at night. I had been good at waiting for explanations for months. I had been good at waiting at the lake, in the garage, on the kitchen counter, in the pantry, on the lawn at the lake shore, in his bed, on the back porch, under the throw blanket in front of the bay window. I had been waiting with my body the way a person waits at a bus stop in the rain. I had been waiting for him to come to me with the explanation. He had not come. Adrianna was downstairs making dinner. He was not coming tonight either, and I was tired of being the woman he had spent the afternoon not coming to.“Mother,” I said at dinner.“Yes, baby?”“Did you ever have a roommate named Vivienne?”The kitchen went quiet in the way kitchens go quiet when something has been said that someone was not expecting. Adrianna set her fork down. “Vivienne Ashford?”

  • Step Daddy's Lakeside Sin    She Knows

    Richard POVThe photo came in at 11:48, three minutes after Millie came home and told me about the woman at Mercury.Vivienne Ashford — 11:48 AM[photo attached]The photo was of Millie. From this morning. From Mercury Café. From the booth next to mine. Millie was looking down at her toast with the angle that she holds toast when she is cutting it with a knife to make it easier to butter, and the reflection on the back of her phone was caught in the photo at the corner, and in the corner you could just make out the faintest suggestion of auburn hair, which was mine, which was Vivienne's, which was the only thing about Vivienne I have ever been able to identify at a distance.The caption read: “Pretty and young. Does Adrianna know? — V”I had been sitting at the island with a glass of water I did not want, watching Millie sleep in our bed and not yet going to her, not because I was being careful but because I was being afraid, and the photo came in, and the photo did the thing Vivienne

  • Step Daddy's Lakeside Sin    The Woman at the Café

    Millie POVMercury Cafe on a Wednesday morning is a thing I have learned to love. I sit at the corner table by the window and I order the same thing every time. A lavender latte and a piece of toast I do not finish, because Mercury is the only place in town where my mother has never once in my life walked in and asked for the check. Mercury is Adrianna-safe. Mercury is mine. I was on my second lavender latte when the woman sat down at the table next to mine. I did not look up. I do not look up at strangers at Mercury. I look up at Adriannas and Richards and Mrs. Halbrooks and the friendly checkout kid at the bookstore who will not stop making eye contact with me because I am, in his peripheral vision, possibly the twenty-three-year-old woman of his dreams. I do not look up at strange women. But the strange woman was looking at me. I know this because I was holding my toast at the angle that you hold toast when you are cutting it with a knife to make it easier to butter, and I was look

  • Step Daddy's Lakeside Sin    V.A.

    Richard POVShe had put the phone back in the wrong place.I notice where my phone is the way I notice where my keys are. I always notice. The phone is a MagSafe to a stand on the nightstand I put it on. The stand is angled at forty-five degrees toward the bed. The phone charger cord runs under the nightstand in a particular coil I have done every night for three years. The phone is always at a particular angle on the stand. Tonight the phone was at a different angle. The angle was off by perhaps ten degrees. The angle was off because a woman had picked it up and put it back and had tried to put it back exactly the way she had found it. Millie had picked up my phone.I did not say anything. I went into the bathroom. I looked at my own face in the mirror and what I felt about this was complicated. Shame because she had caught me, shame because she had caught me seeing someone I had not yet told her about, and something small and ugly underneath both of those, which was satisfaction. M

  • Step Daddy's Lakeside Sin    The Pause

    Millie POVThe pause lived in my chest for two days.“There's no her,” he had said. “There's no her.”But he had not said “there was never a her.” He had said something smaller, slower, more careful, and the space between “no her now” and “never a her” was the space I had begun to live in. It was a small, ugly furnished room of a space, and I had moved my things into it without deciding to. Adrianna was back. Friday at sundown, pink suitcase, perfume cloud, three new stories about Marcy and Dee and cousin Pippa that I would not remember by Sunday. The cab dropped her at the curb. Richard kissed her in the driveway. Long. Loud. The little practiced sound.“How was Tahoe, baby?” “Divine, just divine, you have to see this cabin, Richard, this… Richard, did you water the ferns? Millie's birthday gift… of course, the closet… of course.”I watched her unpack her suitcase in the master bedroom down the hall and I stood in the doorway of my own bedroom and I knew exactly what she had packed

  • Step Daddy's Lakeside Sin    Confession Game

    Richard POVIt rained on the Thursday of the five days. Adrianna would not call it rain. She would call it "a little weather" if she were here, and she was not here, so I let it be rain. We could not go outside. Millie brought the throw blanket from the couch and laid it on the rug in the living room in front of the bay window, because the bay window looked out at the street and she wanted to see the street. She had been wanting to see the street a lot this week. She had a thing about Mrs. Halbrook now. I did not like the thing about Mrs. Halbrook. I did not like that Millie had started watching the neighbors on my behalf because I had asked her to and because watching the neighbors was not something I wanted her to have to do. I sat down on the rug beside her. She leaned into me immediately with the small cold thing of her fitting against the warm thing of me, cheek on my shoulder, hip against my hip.“We're playing a game,” she said.“What game.”“Truth. Dare. Quarters. Whatever.”I

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