Total pages in book: 126
Estimated words: 116231 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 581(@200wpm)___ 465(@250wpm)___ 387(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 116231 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 581(@200wpm)___ 465(@250wpm)___ 387(@300wpm)
I laugh at him. “I tried.” I walk back to the sink, wetting the rag again and wringing it out. “The only thing I didn’t know where to put was the tablecloth,” I point to it, “but I shook it off in the sink.”
“Go say goodnight to Nora.” He motions with his head. “It’s the second door on the right. The one on the left is mine.”
“Oohhh, I might take a peek,” I joke with him as I walk to the steps, my shoes were taken off right after dinner. I walk down the hallway and see his door half closed and then see Westley’s room first, with him in his bed on his device. Nora’s room is right after his. “Hi.” I stick my head in and knock on the door. “Permission to come in?”
“Yes.” She giggles from the middle of her queen-size bed. The room is very much a girl’s room with the pinks and purples, a big bean bag in the corner and with books all around it. There are custom-made shelves with little knickknacks and a picture of her when she was a baby and another one of her and Knox. “Can you read me a book?” she asks and picks up the book in her hand.
“Sure.” I get on the bed next to her. “Do you have a book you want me to read?” She nods her head and picks up the one next to her, and all I see is a unicorn on the cover.
I read her the book and when it gets to the end, she smiles up at me. “Thank you,” she says and it takes me a second to think if anyone ever read me a bedtime story. The answer is no. It was always a goodnight and that was it.
“No, thank you,” I tell her. “That was a fun story.”
“Yeah.” She nods at me and I put it down beside her bed as she turns to the side. “Goodnight, Kylie,” she says and I move down to kiss the top of her head.
“Night, Nora,” I reply and walk out of the room and head down to the kitchen.
I’m expecting to find Knox in the kitchen doing something, but instead the television is on and it’s playing a recap of a game. He’s lying down on the couch and when he sees me, he smiles. “That was long,” he mentions, tossing the remote on the table and sitting up.
“I read her a story.” I walk over and sit next to him. “I’m going to head out,” I remark nervously.
“Yeah,” he says, “after.”
I look at him confused. “After what?”
He pulls me to him, his hand going into my hair. “After we make out.” I can’t answer him because his mouth is on mine and I forget what I’m even going to say.
twenty-five
Knox
I kiss Nora goodbye and then turn to hug Westley and Vincent. “Mom will pick you up,” I tell them. “It’s her week.” They nod. “I’ll see you Friday since I’m gone next week for two days.”
“Okay,” Vincent replies, turning and rushing into the schoolyard to join his friends. Westley is right behind him.
Nora then follows them, waving her hand side to side, yelling, “Bye, Daddy!”
I wait for the bell to ring before walking back to the SUV, getting in and calling Kylie. I smile when she picks up the phone after the third ring. “What is it with you and calling?”
I bark out with laughter. “Good morning to you too.”
“Yeah, yeah,” she says as I pull out of the school parking lot, “good morning.”
It’s been two days since she ate dinner at my house. Yesterday we went back and forth with a couple of texts, and then I called her when the kids went to bed. “What are you doing?”
“I’m getting ready to head into the Oval Office and meet with the President.” I smirk at her snark.
“Does that mean you can’t come over?”
“It’s eight o’clock in the morning,” she observes.
“I’m leaving tonight after the game, and back the day after.”
“I know, you forget my brother is on the team. He keeps me informed of when he’s leaving. Mostly because he wants me to know Lexi is on her own.”
“That’s nice of him,” I say, pulling up to my house. “So you can’t come over?”
“Now?”
“Yeah, you can help me pack,” I suggest, even though it’s a lame fucking reason when the real reason I want her to come over is so I can spend time with her and finally get her naked. We made out on my couch two days ago, but she refused to go further with the kids in the house. Something that left us both on edge, so on edge I ended up jerking off as soon as she left.
“It’s one night.” She chuckles. “How much do you have to pack?”