Tempting The Mafia Twins (Genesis and Kiefer) novel Chapter 48

Reality Check-2

“Then what do I do?”

“What do you know about kintsugi?”

“What the fuck is kintsugi?”

“It’s a Japanese art form. It’s when you take something which has been broken, most things I’ve ever seen were bowls, and repair it with a special glue made from tree sap and then when the sap is dried it’s covered with gold. The goal is to embrace the imperfections in the broken bowl and recognize there are flaws. in life and it’s part of the beauty of it.”

“This is dumb. When the fuck did you start listening to this stuff?”

“This girl I was dating a couple years ago. She broke a bowl, and I was going to throw it out and she told me she would fix it. She told me all about it. I mean I was there for the sex, but I never forgot the lesson.” Jerren grinned at Kiefer’s rolled eyes.

“And it’s on your mind now?”

“It is.” Jerren nodded seriously. “Your relationship with Genesis is broken. You are never going to get it back, not the way it was.

This is a pep talk, it’s a shitty one.”

“”

“You can put all the glue and gold on the cracks, Kiefer but it’s not going to make it look the way it did before. What you need to do is embrace the fact you fucked up, consider it a learning experience, one for both of you, an exceedingly difficult one and then actually learn from it. Prove to Gen you’ve learned. Let her know you’re sorry for the mistakes you made and then fucking move forward.”

“She hates me, Jerren. She can’t move forward.”

“Because she’s focused on the past. Help her see the future. Stop trying to stuff how good you thought your relationship was with her down her throat and instead give her a good relationship now.”

“What?”

“You keep telling her how much she loved you back then and how much you loved her. You keep yammering on and on about how she loved you once, she’ll love you again. If you want her to love you again, be the fucking man she deserves instead of this shitty dickhead you’ve been. Be the gold, Kiefer.”

“Have you been drinking?” Kiefer leaned closer and sniffed his friend’s breath.

“No. Be the gold for her. You can be the thing which holds her together when she’s breaking, Kiefer. You can be the sap,” 2/5

Jerren snorted and elbowed Kiefer.

“Were you testing the product?”

Jerren laughed at him and then slapped him on the shoulder, “not in a million years. You can’t fix what used to be Kiefer, but you can make something new out of the old, something which may last even longer.”

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