TAILIEUCHUNG - Brothers and Wives by Cydney Rax

This follow-up to My Husband’s Girlfriend explores the complicated entanglement of family, love, desire, and duty. | BROTHERS Uj Wives Cydney Rax My Husband s Girlfriend 1 Dani More Than Just a Pretty Face It s the last weekend in July. I ve just pulled my pickup into the parking lot of the Bear Creek Pioneers Park on the west side of Houston. I open the door of my Toyota Tundra and carefully lift my nearly three-year-old son Brax from his car seat. Come on baby watch your step I tell him and watch him closely so he won t stumble on parts of the picnic grounds that dip unevenly. We walk toward the aroma of hickory-smoked meat. From a short distance I can see a flurry of activity in front of a covered pavilion that s draped by a large banner with the words Meadows Family Reunion. Once I arrive at our picnic area I set my red cooler a family-size bag of pita chips and several containers of hummus on a green rectangular metal table. I rearrange my orange and red bikini top so that my nipples aren t totally showing and give my white Bermuda shorts the once-over. I nervously inhale and take in the scene around me and do a quick count. It looks like seventy-something people are here already. Some folks are holding little mini fans in their hands trying to stay cool they are wasting their time it s so hot outside I feel like I m swimming in a pot of boiling water. 3 Cydney Rax Mommy I m thirsty. Okay I tell Brax and reach for a bag of cups that s on the table and pull one out. I fill it with cold water from a huge orange beverage container and watch him take a long swallow. The sound of laughing children captures our attention and we both practically run toward a play area where dozens of his cousins are swinging climbing monkey bars and going for rides down the sliding board. Brax plays on the swing until a teenage cousin asks for my permission to include him in a group of kids who are going for a quick visit to the wildlife habitat. I say okay and make them promise to try and bring my son back within a half hour. I walk back toward the pavilion where I m drawn to thumping mesmerizing

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