Naleighna Kai's Literary Cafe Magazine January 2018 New Year, New You | Page 92

Naleighna Kai
national bestselling author
excerpt from Open Door Marriage
“You slept with my aunt?” She glared at her fiancé, still
desperately trying to come to terms with the information her
mother had blasted to everyone at the packed Thanksgiving
dinner table. “Seriously? How is that even humanly possible
when you didn’t know the woman four hours ago?” Tori
shouted.
“It’s not what you think,” Dallas said.
Twelve pairs of eyes were now focused on the not-quite-
blissful couple standing at the bottom of the stairs just off from
the dining room.
“What did you do?” Tori snapped, glaring up at him. “Trip
over the sheets, and your penis somehow landed in a woman
nearly twice my age?”
The drumstick in Uncle Bill’s hand paused in midair on its
journey to his wide mouth. Cousin Tiny’s fleshy hand flew to
her overexposed bosom and came to rest somewhere above her
heart. Even Tori’s father’s frozen expression of alarm would
have been Three Stooges comical if the situation weren’t so
tragic.
Aunt Yoli was the first to recover. “Did they just say what I
think they said?”
In unison, everyone nodded.
“Girl, shut the front door and run out the back!”
A few bursts of nervous laughter sprang up around the table,
but they were not nearly enough to chase away the unease that
had flooded the room when Tori stepped into the house. Bernice
blurted out that she’d caught Alicia and Dallas together. Alone.
In bed. In the nude.
“I didn’t sleep with her,” Dallas said, his voice shaky.
“Hell naw. I know what I saw,” Bernice snapped. She had
moved from the dining room table to the end of the staircase,
right next to her daughter, poised as if she was ready to go to
battle. “She was butt-naked. And he was nut-naked.”
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