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“What do you think, bud?”
“It’s good,” he agreed, but was too busy eating to say more.
I took it as the simple compliment it was.
“Well, now I know spaghetti and meatballs are a hit. I’ll have to make it again if—”
Heck, I didn’t know if there was going to be a 'next time'. At least, anytime soon.
“Maybe we should make it a Sunday tradition, before the boys go back home every weekend.”
My throat swelled with emotion at the thought.
The question in his eyes prompted me to say, “I’d love that.”
He let out a breath like he’d been holding it, then gave me the brightest smile.
“So,” he said after another bite. “Tell me about things.”
That was all he had to say before Caden went on a binge of telling him every single little thing he had done in the last few days since he’d seen his dad. Charlie was quiet, but I caught his eyes on me a few times, a question there that looked just like his father’s.
I wish I knew how to answer him. How to set him at ease, but he obviously had been hurt by the divorce and trusting new people in his parent’s lives wasn’t going to come easy. It was a good thing I was up for the challenge.
Chapter 20
-Owen-
I couldn’t remember the last time I had an evening so good.
After dinner, Mia whipped together some cookies while we finished with homework, and the boys plowed some down before heading off to get ready for bed.
I followed them upstairs and was surprised when Mia followed.
“Is this ok?” she asked me, as if I was going to tell her to back off or something.
Seeing her interact with my kids in such a natural way was…it was fucking beautiful. I mean, I loved her before, but watching her with them was just incredible. I wanted to bend her over the closest surface and fuck the hell out of her, but I did the grown up thing and kept it in my pants so I could say goodnight to my boys, and then drag her off to my bedroom to defile every part of her body.
Caden came out of his room with his jammies on, his shirt on backwards which happened more often than not, to be honest.
“Oh no!” Mia said, pointing to Caden’s chest. “You’ve got a dinosaur chasing you!”
Caden turned around, looking over his shoulder with an amused expression of shock.
Mia approached and pointed to his back where the print of his t-shirt showed a dino that said ‘it’s party time’.
“It’s backwards!” Caden cried, pulling his arms through his sleeves so he could turn it around.
Once he was all fixed up, Mia gave an exaggerated sigh of relief.
“Whew, no more dinosaurs following you around,” she told him.
Caden just laughed and threw his arms around her neck, smacking a kiss to her cheek.
“Night-night, Mia,” he said before turning to give me a similar hug.
I pressed a kiss to the top of his blonde head and waved him off to bed.
“Don’t forget to say your night-night prayers.”
