Total pages in book: 41
Estimated words: 38741 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 194(@200wpm)___ 155(@250wpm)___ 129(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 38741 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 194(@200wpm)___ 155(@250wpm)___ 129(@300wpm)
“Colton, who told you not to sleep? Nobody’s keeping you up.” Snark!
“How can I go to sleep when you’re so uncomfortable?”
“Then put a sock in it and stop annoying me.” Her brats must’ve made her lose her damn mind. I reached over to the night stand and got my little notebook and pen.
“What’s that, what’re you doing now?”
“You know damn good and well what this is. It’s your book of infractions. I’ve been keeping track of all the shit you’ve done in the last nine months.”
“Let me see. The little shits should be born in another month or so, then you’ll need another month and a half to heal. After that your ass is mine, you’re outta control.”
“Colton, I don’t have time for your mess. My surprise party is coming up soon and I haven’t finished my registry yet.”
“If it’s a surprise how do you know about it?”
“Catalina needed PVC pipe.” I just stared at her.
“That’s a shame, that’s just pitiful. You bribed our daughter?”
“What, you think you’re the only one allowed to do that?”
“Let me ask you this, do you know what she wants it for?”
“I don’t ask those kinds of questions.”
I had nothing to say to her clueless ass. “That’s why that kid is the way she is. No supervision. The next time the school calls I’ma sic them on your ass, because you’re the one contributing to her delinquency.”
“Whatever, why don’t you go to sleep?” I would if I wasn’t sure that in ten minutes her greedy ass was
gonna send me to the fridge for something. I’m not sure if she’s carrying girls or piglets, every hour on the hour she’s stuffing something in her face.
I was out maybe ten minutes later but I’ve long learned to sleep with my ears pricked and my body ready to spring into action. That’s how I knew someone was outside my bedroom door.
Kat likes to keep it half open so she can hear Cody who I talked her into leaving in his room. Unless she’s trying to get some dick it stays that way and I can hear every move made.
“Mommy you asleep?” I only saw the shadow peeping around the door.
“The fu…Mengele what the hell are you doing up?” She took that as an invitation to walk her ass into my room.
She went over to her mother’s side of the bed. “I’m talking to mommy daddy.”
“What is it sweetheart?” Kat ran her hand over the spawn’s hair lovingly while I eyed her suspiciously.
I don’t trust that one-one fuck, especially in the middle of the damn night when she’s lurking around while the rest of the house is asleep. Is it any wonder I can’t get any peace in this bitch?
“Mommy I was thinking. Can I see the babies being born?”
“NO, now go to bed.” I answered before Kat could let this one con her into some stupid shit.
I’m not too blind to see the look she gave me in the moonlight as she made her way back to the door.
“Daddy’s always yelling dang!”
“What did you say?”
“It’s not a bad word, nana said.”
“Which one?”
“Nana Elena.”
I’m gonna strangle my own mother. I’ve held back for years but that old lady’s gotta go. Always meddling in my shit.
“I’ll ask you tomorrow mommy okay.” She gave me a look like I was the cause of all her problems. “Night daddy!” Hah, like I couldn’t hear the sarcasm in that shit.
Daddy’s gonna put your ass somewhere where you can’t cause any damn trouble. The world will thank me I’m sure, damn nut.
“Dang it, I wanted to ask mommy something else.” She flounced her little ass out the door. I guess she had a new word that she’s gonna use to make me nuts.
“Kat, you better watch that one and sharp objects. Before you know it she’d be trying to help you through labor. I don’t trust that look in her eye.”
She gave me the death glare and tried to get comfortable against the pillows at her back. “Come ‘ere.” Her miserable ass!
I half sat up and pulled her between my legs with her back to my chest and my hands under her large extended stomach. “Better?”
I know from experience that when she gets big as a barge this is the only way she can comfortably sleep. Who cares how I feel? She sighed and fell out within seconds.
I listened to make sure Mengele didn’t make any detours and finally went back to sleep. Tomorrow’s another day and sure as fuck it’s gonna be just as bad or worst.
Chapter 6
I certainly wasn’t expecting the shit that landed in my lap the next day. After the hell that is Sunday brunch in my house, with the grandparents and Cy joining us, I escaped to my garage to tinker with something.
Every year or so I like to upgrade my sons’ bikes because they outgrow them as fast as I build them. I could hear laughter coming from inside and that was good enough for me.