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Chapter Twenty-Eight
Elijah
Hadley: We met your mom today. She tried to take Lucy home.
Elijah: I’m surprised she didn’t try to take you all home.
Hadley: Actually… lol! Will you be home tomorrow?
Drying my hair off with a towel as I stepped out of my hotel bathroom, my smile was damn near impossible to prevent. Okay, I wasn’t trying.
Elijah: Yeah, leaving the parlor around 2. I can pick you up from work if you’re working tomorrow.
Hadley: car seats aren’t in your truck, remember? Lol, they’re at my apartment since Olivia went home.
Well, fuck. That sucked. I was dying to see her and her kids. I couldn’t get it out of my head that Hadley’s asshole of an ex would be there trying to weasel his way back into her life while I was away. I had no right to get angry. In a lot of ways that counted, I was always going to be the outsider no matter how much I didn’t feel like one.
I rubbed my chest. That thought made me fucking miserable as all hell.
I knew Hadley had no interest in getting back with Scott. That much was obvious, but I also saw a mom that would do anything for her kids’ happiness, and that scared the hell out of me. Hadley already admitted to me about him taking advantage of his own daughter to use against her.
Lucy and Eli’s dad enraged me. I couldn’t for the life of me understand how he could destroy what he had with Hadley. The man didn’t seem to notice the perfection in his own kids.
Did he not realize someone would take one look at what he destroyed and fall madly in love with all the pieces he left behind? That was probably why he was mean to Hadley. He figured it out.
Only it was too late. I was going to do everything in my power to show Hadley that she and her kids were better off without him. That I could belong with them…. That they were everything I never knew I wanted. That a part of me was always there with them even when I wasn’t and that was never going to change. The only thing that’s changed was the way I saw things.
Elijah: I’ll see you guys tomorrow when I get home?
Hadley: That sounds good. Lucy won’t stop asking when we’ll get to see you again. She misses you.
Remembering our time alone at the parlor, the soft and heated way her gaze watched me, I swallowed. I wanted to take her in my arms right then and there but I didn’t want to do that the very first time I had her alone. No matter how much I thought about stuffing my hand in her jeans and sliding my fingers inside her pussy until she came. Pleasing her was the only thing on my mind. She was so perfect, and I wanted nothing more than to show her how much she deserved a thorough night in bed with someone who’d cherish every inch of her creamy flesh. That someone only ever being me.
Calm your shit, Elijah.
Great, I was sporting a massive erection. It was frustrating. I didn’t know when it would be the right time to show my intentions to Hadley. She was delicate, fragile from being cheated on, and she was also a parent.
But all of those things only made me want her more so that I could spoil her.
Fuck yes, I wanted to spoil her spirit, her mind, and every inch of her flesh.
Elijah: What about you? Do you miss me?
Hadley: Yes.
One word, but it was everything.
