Total pages in book: 94
Estimated words: 91595 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 458(@200wpm)___ 366(@250wpm)___ 305(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 91595 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 458(@200wpm)___ 366(@250wpm)___ 305(@300wpm)
Skyye
did he let her, or did she just get knocked up with you two big-headed idiots and, unlike my parents, then got married.
Skyye
not that I’m complaining. My parents don’t belong together.
Ash
True. Not on the big-headed thing tho. I have a good size head.
Flint
eh, it’s a little egg like.
Skyye
yeah, so they’re so together.
Skyye
the whole week I’ve been here, they have coffee together, watch TV together, sit on the porch together, and there are a lot of heated looks.
Ash
like get-naked looks?
Skyye
I don’t know what that looks like.
Ash
the way you look at Jack Hughes.
Skyye
omg, the way he sticks his tongue out when he shoots…
Skyye
Sends Homer Simpson drooling GIF.
Ash
eh, he’s okay.
Flint
I’d go gay for him.
Skyye
LMFAO.
Ash
please don’t admit that ever again.
Flint
what? He’s loaded and can handle a stick.
Ash
please stop.
Ash
anyway, maybe Mom and Dean are just flirting. They’ve always been a little flirty.
Skyye
Kenni was in the kitchen in Dad’s hockey shirt.
Flint
damn, they’re totally banging.
Ash
or Mom stole his shirt.
Flint
yeah, after getting naked with him.
Flint
okay, did you ask?
Skyye
ask what? Hey, are you banging Kenni?
Ash
yeah, then if he says yes, tell him I need to know his intentions.
Ash
wait, what if it’s just them hooking up?
Ash
just cause they’re old and shit doesn’t mean they’re trying to be together.
Flint
shit. I didn’t think of that. We did tell her to have fun.
Skyye
ugh, no, don’t say that!
Skyye
I was looking forward to having two older brothers.
Ash
I don’t want a little sister or an uncle dad.
Flint
we can’t call him Uncle Dad.
Ash
Why not? It’s perfect.
Flint
you’re dumb. And, Skyye?
Skyye
what?
Flint
You don’t have to be my sister for me to love you forever.
Skyye
<3
Ash
fine, I hope they get married and you become my sister. I’m just a pain.
Flint
we know.
Skyye
love you guys.
Flint
go get more information.
Ash
yeah and make sure Dean knows I want to know his intentions.
Flint
Jesus, you’re gonna make Uncle Dad run for the hills.
Skyye
I’m not calling Kenni Aunt Mom.
Ash
see, this is why you can’t be our little sister. You don’t listen.
Skyye
hell, your mom doesn’t listen either!
Flint
we know.
Ash
it’s hard raising parents nowadays.
CHAPTER
THIRTY-SIX
Kenni
“I don’t want to go to work.”
Dean’s mouth is hot and wet against my jaw as he lifts my hands, threading our fingers before locking them above my head. He has me pinned against his door, his body pressing firmly into mine, his arousal hard against my belly. He feels so damn good, especially when his voice is all on edge and rough against my lips. “I want to stay right here with you.”
I smile against his lips. “But I’m going out.”
His lips quirk. “Not if I keep you in my bed.”
I giggle as he trails his mouth along my neck. His mustache tickles my skin, while his beard scrapes and sends tingles throughout my body. It’s been a week since the fire station, and Dean is more than I ever could have imagined. He’s patient, didn’t say a word when we had dinner as a big family that had the potential to bring Jerry Springer out of the grave. He sat beside Skyye, but his eyes were on me. I know he thought I would bring it up, tell Missy, but I couldn’t. I tried to hide in my room when we got home, but once Skyye went to bed, Dean pulled me down my bed by my ankles to carry me to his room.
Where he devoured me whole then said he would wait forever for me.
But then, he reminded me that I only had a week left.
He drives me crazy.
Every day, he makes me happier than the day before. He doesn’t miss a cup of coffee with me in the morning. We play cribbage when Skyye goes to bed. We talk about our days, and he makes me laugh. It’s so different from how it was with Stratford. There, I felt like the hired help to raise my boys, but this thing with Dean feels like a true partnership.
It’s absolutely terrifying.
And so unexpected.
Yet, I’m running forward for him.
Dean is just so much fun, and him being a dad should be downright illegal. He loves Skyye so much, he supports her like no other, and watching them “train” for “Minute to Win It” is probably my favorite thing to do. When I’m not laughing, I’m swooning for this man who has been so important to me since we were kids. He was right there, even when I was miles away. He was in my life, and I never saw him coming. He wasn’t part of the plan. My GPS wasn’t set on him, no signs pointing right to him.
He just appeared.
Like a sudden sunbeam through the heavy fog over the mountains.
Quiet, unassuming, but so damn sure of me.
Impossible to ignore.
The laughter between the three of us feels like home, and I miss my boys. I want them here. I want them to experience this kind of true contentment. To the point that I don’t care that Stratford is fighting my lawyer left and right. Okay—that bastard does get to me, but Dean does what he can to distract me from it.