Total pages in book: 108
Estimated words: 103010 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 515(@200wpm)___ 412(@250wpm)___ 343(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 103010 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 515(@200wpm)___ 412(@250wpm)___ 343(@300wpm)
“Mine,” he said as he fucked into me.
“Yours,” I replied, and nothing would ever change that.
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
Aidan
“What’s your problem?”
“Nothing,” I snapped at David as we shared a meal. “Fuck. I’m sorry.” I’d been a miserable bastard all day. Hell, I’d been one for a while now, and I knew it. I couldn’t seem to stop myself, though.
David sighed. “When does your boy come home?”
I rubbed a hand over my face. It had been two weeks since I got on a plane in Houston, without him. A few days turned into more, and the truth was, I didn’t know when he was coming back. We talked every day. He shared what they’d been up to and told me he missed me. He asked permission each time he postponed his trip home, and he asked if I could give him a modified schedule for when he was gone. I hadn’t left him with one at all, but he’d missed it, he said, and so he wanted me to decide simple things like when he would wake up, when he would go to bed, and when we spoke each night.
Still, it wasn’t enough. I missed him, but I also knew I had no right to ask him to come home. Even as his Dom, I wouldn’t do that. Finley needed this. He was getting to know his family, and I would never take that away from him.
“I’m not sure,” I replied without looking at David.
“He is coming home, though, right?”
“Yes, of course. I just… He deserves this. I won’t be the one to take it away from him. And if he decides that’s where he wants to be, I’ll have to let him go.” I would hate it. Even the thought set my teeth on edge, but I would do it if it was what was best for him. From the beginning, that had always been what I’d wanted. I’d sworn I would never trap him, never hold him back, that all I wanted was to see him grow.
I wouldn’t be the one to chop off his wings when he tried to fly.
I wouldn’t be my father, no matter how much I wanted nothing more than to demand he come home, and keep him there forever.
“Aidan…”
“I don’t want to talk about it,” I told David. He must have been able to tell I was serious, because he gave me a sad smile and dropped the subject.
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
Finley
I was really starting to get homesick.
I loved being with Jenn and the girls. It was… Hell, it was more than I ever thought I would have, but I was starting to feel antsy, edgy, and I missed Aidan. I couldn’t wear his collar all the time because I wasn’t sure how my family would react. When I could, I kept it on, covered it with a shirt, but I felt off without it, without him.
But I was also scared that if I left, I would lose them. They would realize they didn’t care about me or end up forgetting me. That something would happen and I would lose them like I’d lost Mom, or how Aidan had lost his family, and I’d just found them. How could I risk that?
It was a Saturday, and Jenn and I were out together. Jeff had stayed home with the girls, giving us some time to just hang out. We got pedicures and went to lunch, and now we were at a park, walking around.
“I wanted to run something by you,” she said as we sat down at a picnic table under the shade of a weeping tree.
“Yeah, sure. What’s up?”
“I know this is going to sound crazy, and it’s a lot really fast, but I’ve put quite a bit of thought into this and discussed it with Jeff. We both love you so much, and so do the girls. It’s like having a piece of my sister with me again, but even more than that, you’re a great kid, and I love spending time with you.”
Okay…only I wasn’t a kid.
“You’re a part of this family, and I hate that you were taken away from us for so long. It’s not fair. It wasn’t fair to Mandy, and it’s not fair to you, and I’d like to make up for that. We wanted to ask if you’d be interested in staying here, in moving to Houston to be with us. You could work with Jeff at his construction company, or if you didn’t want to do that, you could go to school. You can stay with us, or you could stay in the small duplex Jeff and I own and have your own place. You’ve never had your own place, have you? I still have some of the inheritance my parents left us, and Jeff and I both agree that should go to you. You have a right to it as Amanda’s son. There will be paperwork and things like that we have to do, but that’s not important. I just…yeah, that’s it.”