Total pages in book: 36
Estimated words: 34588 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 173(@200wpm)___ 138(@250wpm)___ 115(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 34588 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 173(@200wpm)___ 138(@250wpm)___ 115(@300wpm)
“Don’t drink too much. It’s not going to help. Focus on your goals for your future, and I’ll take care of my daughter. I assure you I won’t be letting her fall in love with anyone at her age. I can’t promise anything else, but I’m not ready for her to date just any little punk.” Being a father is hard as hell. You spend your life caring for them financially, physically, and then emotionally. Now you have to guide them to make the right choices. Simon’s a great kid, but he might not be the one. Until the time comes, I just have to play it by ear and hope that it doesn’t cost me my twenty-five-year friendship in the end.
“That’s all I can ask for. It’s more than I should ask for. Thank you. I better go before I lose my cool any more than I have. It’s harder than I thought it would be.” We shake hands, and he tosses his half-full beer in the trash before walking over to his mother and giving her a kiss on the cheek.
I search out my wife who is standing by the snack table. “You handled that well,” she says as I slide up behind her and wrap my arms around her waist.
“Thanks, little hellcat. Did you send her over here with that insane request?”
“Nope. It wasn’t my idea.” I watch where her eyes go.
“Fucking Mack.” She looks guiltily away from me.
“She’s rooting for her son.”
“She’s going to have that boy going to prison for murder if she’s not careful. That would be World War three in this bitch if he attacked another one of the Rider boys.”
“Come on, you know damn well they are like brothers to her. Most of them aren’t interested in her, and I’m sure that his brothers would make sure no one would flirt with her.”
“Do you think it would be better if she knew that he liked her?”
“No. If she knows, she might try to seduce him. She’s my daughter, after all. If I knew you were interested in me back then, I would have come back sooner and did my best to flirt and get you to give in.”
“Oh fuck.” My balls tighten up as my dick stiffens. My wife trying to seduce me always turns me on. “It might have worked too.”
“See. It’s best to keep it hush for now. The less she knows the better. Besides, he’s going to be away for a few months, giving us a break for a bit.”
“Fine. Let’s get out of here, and you can show me how you would have seduced me, Ms. Gordon.”
She presses her hand to my chest, and she looks up at me with those soft, lost eyes full of emotion, pouting out her bottom lip just enough to entice. “Why Sheriff Lawrence, I need a ride home. I’m scared to go by myself after what happened….” Her hand lightly moves up and down the buttons of my light blue flannel, and as she does it with her nearly matching low-cut sundress. She ever so subtly presses her breasts together, lifting them up, accentuating them. A deep rumble comes from my chest. “We’re leaving, Ms. Gordon. We’ve got some crimes to commit.” I start to drag her toward the exit, but she pulls back.
“Sorry, Sheriff, but that’s not going to work.” She points to the offspring of ours loitering around. “We have kids here.”
“Damn it. Whose idea was it to have this conversation right now?”
“Yours.”
“Well, save that thought then. For now, just kiss me, wife.” She gives a quick peck, but that’s not enough for me and I pin her to the side of Ghost’s truck and kiss her hard. “Now that’s much better.”
“Are you two done?” Beast asks, but from the look of his puffy, reddened lips, I’m guessing the fact that he and Mary disappeared for ten minutes means he was doing more than talking.
“Not yet, but for now, it will have to do, but we’re not the only ones.”
“Tell me about it and we’re both in the same situation. I just fucking found out Will’s in love with my baby girl.” He runs his hands through his thick hair.
“Shit, Boomer’s Will?” I ask.
“Yes. He has been for a long time. I’m so glad I just found out because if I knew before, I might have lost my shit.” That’s a big deal too.
“The pitfalls of raising brilliant and beautiful daughters. They all fall at their feet,” Vanessa says.
“For real. I need a drink.”
“Hell, Boomer’s got two little girls now, so he’s going to feel our pain one day.” They’re babies though.
“Shit, by the time they’re grown, I don’t think he’ll give a fuck. He’ll be old as fuck. Don’t jinx yourself. You might end up having a little one at this age.”