Total pages in book: 71
Estimated words: 71625 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 358(@200wpm)___ 287(@250wpm)___ 239(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 71625 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 358(@200wpm)___ 287(@250wpm)___ 239(@300wpm)
“Didn’t know that, Cody,” I admitted. “How do you find all of these facts?”
“I make Mommy read to me off of the Google,” he answered.
“Mom reads him the headlines off of the current events every night, too.” Conleigh came in, her laptop clutched in both hands. “And every once in a while, Mom will let him pick a random fact to read. Last night was the one about the flags.”
That made sense.
“That’s kind of cool,” I said. “You want to hear a few more?”
Cody’s eyes lit up like it was Christmas Eve, Christmas, Halloween, and Easter all rolled into one.
“Yes,” he breathed. “Please.”
His please was almost an afterthought, and I winked at him. “Good job.”
Then I spent the next hour reading him random facts and having him point out his sight words as we did it.
I couldn’t believe it, but I had a lot of fun.
And I also realized how badly I missed my own son being as young as Cody was.
The wonder in his eyes when he learned something new was just fantastic.
“Whatcha doin’?” I questioned Conleigh when I saw her smile light up her side of the room.
Conleigh’s eyes flashed to mine. “Just talking to a friend online.”
Something that put a smile like that on her face wasn’t likely to be only a friend, but until she wanted to confide in me, I’d allow the parenting to stay in Winnie’s court.
Conleigh was old enough now to make her own decisions in life. I just hoped that she wasn’t doing anything stupid that would harm her for the rest of it.
***
Winnie
“I like what you said to him,” I breathed, snuggling up to Steel as he scooted into the bed next to me.
I felt him grin as he placed a kiss on my shoulder.
I rolled farther into him and brought my mouth up to his bearded cheek and pressed my lips against those curly hairs that dominated the bottom half of his face.
“Did you mean to leave the back door unlocked?” he questioned, ignoring my words.
I rolled my eyes, and he squeezed my hip as if he knew I’d done so.
“Yes,” I said. “I heard you coming and unlocked it. This new app is the bomb dot com”
He snorted.
“I like it myself,” he said. “It’s not the alarm company I would’ve personally chosen, but with that prick Anderson in town, anything is better than what you have.”
I agreed.
The day that I got home from work—the day that Anderson had made himself known—I’d contacted a local alarm company. They hooked me up with not just an alarm, but also two outside cameras, one inside camera, two locks and a smoke detector system that contacted 911 if smoke was sensed. The whole set up was so cool—I could unlock the locks from my phone, wherever I might be.
It also had a passcode so I would never have to rely on a key ever again.
Cody and I loved it. Conleigh tolerated it.
As I was thinking about how much I loved my new alarm system, I felt Steel’s hand slip down my backside, and then curl around to rest against the lips of my pussy.
He did this a lot, though, so at first, I wasn’t really expecting this to go into anything more.
When Steel had surprised me at work after saying he most likely wouldn’t make it for lunch, I’d eaten without any excitement for my food like I normally would have.
Then he’d pushed through the door, and I instantly became so freakin’ happy I couldn’t explain it.
Then he’d given me some of the best sex of my life.
“Got a call from my ex,” he said into the darkness.
“Yeah?”
“Yeah,” I felt him nod against me. “She has decided not to contest the divorce. As of five PM this afternoon, I’m no longer a married man.”
I grinned and moved to hug him tighter when his middle finger breached the seam of my pussy and started to circle.
His finger dipped inside my entrance, causing my entire body to jolt.
“Always wet for me,” he growled.
I couldn’t argue with that. Simply laying in the same bed as this man was a turn-on.
We’d done this exact thing all of three times lately, but it’d been enough to make me realize that that would be a constant state for me.
It was as if my body simply waited him out, knowing that if I was patient, he’d give me what I needed.
“Please?” I whispered. “I don’t want to be teased today.”
He flipped us, causing me to shriek, and situated himself between my legs.
The covers were gone an instant later, and the next thing I knew, his beard was tickling the inside of my thighs. “Open for me.”
His order made me smile.
“And if I don’t?”
“If you don’t?” he teased, biting the soft skin of my thigh. “Well, I’ll have to just convince you.”