Total pages in book: 69
Estimated words: 65039 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 325(@200wpm)___ 260(@250wpm)___ 217(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 65039 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 325(@200wpm)___ 260(@250wpm)___ 217(@300wpm)
I've lost my fucking mind, let's hope I still have my balls by the time she's through with me.
"I'll go get the popcorn, anything else you need while I'm out there?"
"Yes, potato chips, soda, cookies, all the goodies."
Fuck, I forgot my woman was a teenager.
I had to laugh at the thought before stealing another smooch.
"Okay Angel, I'll be right back."
We spent the day just lazing around watching her tear jerkers, which I enjoyed because I got to baby her even more.
"Baby, why do you watch this shit if it makes you cry?"
"Because it's so good." She sniffed into my chest.
"I'll take your word for it."
It felt fucking amazing to lay here with her doing nothing, don't remember doing that shit since I was like seventeen with my first real girlfriend.
Her fingertips started playing over my bare chest, soft, light touches that made my dick hard as fuck.
I took her hand in mine and pressed it into my hardness.
"Stop torturing me babe."
I felt the tremble in her body as she rubbed me once.
I kissed her forehead, gave her a squeeze and took her hand back in mine resting it on my chest.
"Say something to distract me babe because there's no way I'm doing anything with you feeling like crap, so talk fast."
"Why is only one side of your body tattooed, why'd you leave this side bare?"
She smoothed her fingers over my ink.
"That's your side."
"Huh?"
"That's where you go, it represents the rib that was taken from me to make you."
"Me, but what if...what if I'm not your 'one'?"
"Babe, you wouldn't be in my bed if you weren't, and you damn sure wouldn't be moving in with me."
"Moving in..."
"Yeah, that's what I had to talk to your father about, that's what the boxes are for."
"My dad, oh my God, my dad knows?" She covered her face with her hand and hid it in my side.
"Hey, calm down Angel, it's not the end of the world, this day was going to come sooner or later, I think all in all he's satisfied with the way things turned out."
She still didn't look convinced but in time she'll see I was right.
* * *
"Tina, it's me Drake..."
"Oh my God Katarina..."
"No, no, nothing like that, I just...have you heard from her yet today?"
"As a matter of fact I haven't, not last night either but I didn't think anything of it."
"Well, she's fine but..."
I wasn't too sure how to word this, Tina was a wildcard and when it comes to her daughter there's no telling how crazy she'd get.
"Drake?"
"I'm here, listen, Kat...met someone."
"What do you mean?"
"A guy, she met a guy."
"Already, but she just moved there."
"I know but she seems really taken with this guy, and uh, he came to see me yesterday."
"Well I guess that's something anyway, shows the kid has manners, but what does he want with our daughter?"
"Well, uh, shit...she spent the night."
"She did what, Drake..."
"Look, she's eighteen years old, I couldn't very well stop her now could I, besides I didn't even see her, the boy came to the station and asked if it was okay,then again now that I think about it it was more like he was telling me how it was going to be."
"What! How old is this boy anyway?"
"Uh, that's the difficult part, Colton's thirty two."
"HE'S WHAT?"
"Take it easy Tina, he happens to come from the premier family in these parts, his dad's the head of Greenville General. He owns his own business here making custom bikes...he's just a nice kid Tina. Now keep in mind this is Kat's choice, I didn't see her but she left me a note saying where she was gonna be and I gotta tell ya, I saw those two together and they're the real deal. The way this guy spoke to me, well, he means business. I have to say I don't think she could be in better hands."
"Well I need to know more about this Colton, what's his last name?"
I gave her the information she wanted and then hung up, hoping my crazy ex didn't show up here with guns blazing.
Kat was what you might call a late in life baby, Tina and I had been trying what seemed like forever without success, then one day out of the blue, after twenty years of marriage she decided she was done.
By then we'd drifted apart, the marriage was basically in name only.
Imagine my surprise when she called me up two months later with the news that she was pregnant.
Six and a half months later I was the proud father of a beautiful baby girl, broke my heart that after all this time I wouldn't get to raise her, but I got to see her every year after her birth.
When that business had happened a few months ago it had taken all my training not to commit murder, my profession warred against my fatherly instinct.