Can't Stop the Feeling (Sinclair Sisters 2)

“Turn the damn thing off,” Agnes ordered.

“Fine, be like that.” Mairi put it back in her pocket and folded to sit tailor-style beside Donna on the floor. “What’s up, Donnie?”

She took a deep breath and let it all out. “I’ve fallen in love with Duncan,” she wailed.

Her torturous confession didn’t get the response she’d expected. Mairi was staring at Agnes with confusion.

“She didn’t know?” she said.

“Know what?” Donna snapped.

Mairi looked back at her. “That you’ve been in love with Duncan almost from the day you started here.”

“That’s not true!” She would have noticed.

The sisters shared a look, and Mairi’s face softened. She patted Donna’s arm. “Donnie, it’s the reason you’re still here. You love the man.”

She swung her gaze between them. “Why didn’t someone say something?”

“Because we thought you didn’t want to talk about it,” Mairi said. “And it didn’t seem like Duncan was going to come out of his funk anytime soon.”

Her eyes narrowed at her little sister. “It wasn’t a funk. He was grieving.”

“Yeah, that.” Mairi nodded.

Donna let her head thump back to the floor. “What am I going to do?”

Her sisters spoke at the same time.

“Have sex with him,” Mairi said.

“Get a new job,” Agnes said.

Donna groaned. She would have been better off talking to Hermione and Gandalf.

“Have sex with him?” Agnes snapped at Mairi. “Are you out of your mind? She can’t sleep with him.”

“Why not?” That Mairi looked genuinely confused did not bode well for the IQ range of any children she might have. “She loves him, and that’s what people do when they’re in love, they have sex.”

Agnes pinched the bridge of her nose before answering. “Exactly. She loves him. And Duncan loves?” Her eyebrows rose as she willed Mairi to join the dots for herself.

Donna couldn’t wait for her. “He loves his wife,” she wailed again.

Mairi’s face was blank. “I still don’t understand why that means she can’t sleep with him. Fiona isn’t here, and she is. Why can’t she bonk his brains out so that she’ll never regret not having sex with the man she loves?”

“You are deeply disturbed.” Agnes pointed at Mairi.

Donna had to agree. “I’m not having sex with him. In fact, I don’t even want to see him again. I think Agnes’ idea about changing jobs is a good one.” Although it would hurt to move on, she figured it would still hurt less than knowing she’d never have a place in Duncan’s heart.

“I hate to break it to you,” Agnes said. “But as much as I agree that you need to move on and get away from him, you still have to see him every day until you do.”

She groaned again. This was agony. “I’ll talk to him. Tell him this isn’t working for me and that I want to go back to the way things were.”

There was silence for a beat before her sisters laughed.

“You’re going to set him straight?” Mairi wiped her eyes.

“Yes. Is that so hard to believe?” Now they were really annoying her. Whatever happened to having the support of her sisters?