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“Making love?” I suggested. His dick jumped in his boxers, and I felt an answering twinge in my own pants.
Kevin glared at me, pointing at his bedroom door. “You can’t say stuff like that. My mom is here.”
I bit back a laugh. “Come here, handsome. You’re stressing yourself out. Let’s talk.”
He shook his head, his lower lip coming out like a petulant child. “No. We’ll…”
“Fuck?”
He groaned. “CJ,” he said, and it sounded like a plea. Who was I to deny the man?
Jumping up, I pulled my shirt over my head.
“What are you doing?” he asked like a scandalized school marm from another century.
“Getting as comfortable as you.” I undid my pants, then stopped when I noticed moisture in his eyes. Rushing to him, I cupped his face. “What’s wrong? Tell me the truth.”
He blinked back the tears and took a shuddering breath. “I’m scared, CJ. I thought I was on my way to having it all once already, and our breakup and the things he said rocked me. But after one day of watching you with my daughter, eating your cooking, and experiencing someone seeming to genuinely enjoy my company, I realized that what I felt for Alan paled in comparison to what it would be possible to feel for you. And the sex. The night I met you was the best sex of my life, and that doesn’t make sense. We didn’t even know each other, and you know me now. You know I’m not always the most comfortable person in the world, but you made me feel so special and safe that I gave into my desire in a way that I’d never done with my ex. And it’s confusing…and…and…”
Turning his head up, I kissed the tip of his nose. “And scary. I know. Believe me, I get it. If my mother hadn’t told me to go for the grand gesture, I’d never have butted in and asked your mom if she was truly happy in Florida, and I wouldn’t have invited my family for the party, or told you I quit. I’d planned to wait you out. I was in it for the long game because I knew that unless you asked me to leave, I was going to wait for you to realize that we could be pretty great together. Yes, the sex was amazing, and even that night, I was sad we didn’t exchange numbers. But it felt like the universe gave me another shot when I showed up on your doorstep. Since then, I’ve only become more positive that we’re right for each other. All I want is a chance.”
One tear slipped down his cheek, and he leaned into me, resting his cheek against my chest. “I’m kinda pissed at you,” he said, his warm breath dancing over my skin.
Pushing my hands back into his curls, I wondered if I could convince him to let it grow a little longer and stop getting the curls chopped off all the time. “Why?”
“Because George told me to fire you on your first day, and I’ve been trying to work up the courage to do it ever since. But I didn’t want anyone to watch Lexi but you, so it got so confusing. Like, what kind of father steals his daughter’s manny?”
Chuckling, I burrowed my nose into his neck. “I don’t really want to stop watching her, but I’d rather audition for a more permanent role in her life.”
He huffed and leaned back. “Which thing exactly was the grand gesture? My mom? All the people at the party? The quitting and asking me to take you to bed?”
I smiled so hard I felt the skin crinkle at the corners of my eyes. “Kind of all of it. I wasn’t really sure what would qualify as a grand gesture. I’m kinda young, you know?” I teased. “So what do you think? Where do we go from here?”
“Well.” He pulled out of my arms. “First of all, you’re not quitting.” I opened my mouth to protest, and he held up a hand. “Maybe take your name off the list at that agency.” He crawled up onto the bed.
“What?” He’d thrown me for a loop, and I had no idea what he was talking about. As he lay flat on his back, rubbing his hand over his underwear-clad dick, all the blood in my body felt like it pooled in my dick, so I was pretty sure I’d completely lose track of this conversation if he didn’t get on with it. “Kevin.”
“Watching Lexi full-time is too much for my mom. I want her to stay here, though, in her room, so we’ll have to work out other arrangements for you.”
He pushed his underwear down far enough for his cock to spring up, and I swallowed hard. “Like what?”
He quirked a finger in a come here motion, and I dove across the top of him, making him laugh. “I’ve been falling in love with you, too. If you… if you’re really willing to take me and everything I come with, then I’m?—”
I slammed my mouth on his. Fucking finally.
“CJ,” Lexi’s sweet toddler voice said as a finger poked me in the side. “Did you and Daddy have a sleepover?”
Kevin groaned from where he was spooned in front of me. “What time is it?”
“Daddy, are you wake? Why you and CJ have a sleepover witout me?”
I laughed and pulled her over my back and between us. When we’d decided after our second round that we weren’t going to hide what was growing between us from Lexi, we’d both put on pajama pants. Kevin had laughed until he cried when I’d pulled my suitcase out of his walk-in closet. Was it a little presumptuous? Maybe. But it had all worked out in the
end. “Well, your nana needs her room back, so I thought I would just move in here with your daddy, Lexi-girl.”
“Like Uncle George and Aunt Margie do?”
Kevin finally rolled over, moaning as he took a toddler foot to the chin in the process. “Just like that, Lex-Lex. Is that okay?”
