I stretched my arm across her shoulders. “Yeah. Zara’s made Robbie’s night by agreeing to play games with him for hours.”
Zara hit me with a dirty look before shaking her head and getting back to the game.
“I’m playing, too,” Skylar said, joining them on the floor.
“Don’t wait up for us,” I said to her.
She looked at me. “Breakfast is at seven in the morning. I’m making pancakes and waffles. And I’m waking your ass up if you’re still sleeping. You promised to come with me to help me get a good deal on new tyres.”
“Fuck,” I grumbled. My plan had been to get the kids to all their activities they had on tomorrow morning before coming home to fuck Lily. “I can’t in the morning. We’ll go in the afternoon.”
“No, I’m busy all day tomorrow. The only time I have is first thing.”
Lily squeezed me and said to Skylar, “He’ll do it in the morning.” Then to me, she said, “We need to leave or we’re going to miss our reservation.”
Once I had her out of the house, I reached for her and said, “Change of plans. We’re skipping dinner and?—”
“No, you are not changing our plans, King. I’ve been looking forward to dinner at that restaurant all week.”
Wrapping my hand around her throat, I growled, “And I’ve been looking forward to burying my dick inside you for fucking days, so I’ve changed the reservation for later and booked us a hotel room. If that pisses you off, feel free to take it out on my body, but there’s no fucking way I’m waiting to strip you and fuck you.” When she looked like she was going to argue with me, I added, “I warned you about wearing that dress. You chose to wear it.”
“Fine,” she said with the kind of attitude that made me want to slam inside her right fucking now. “But there will be dinner later and you will be sitting through two desserts with me. I checked out their menu and I can’t choose between lemon meringue and cheesecake, so I’m having both. If you get to change our plans, I get to have two lots of dessert. And you also have to walk along the river with me after dinner. Oh, and when we get home, I really want you to watch Lucifer with me.”
Taking my time at dinner was not something I was good at, and walking anywhere was not something I enjoyed. And I fucking hated that TV show. I did my best to avoid doing any of those things, but hell, it turned out loving Lily meant I was doing shit all over the place I’d rather not do.
“Get on the back of my bike before I bend you over it and make your ass red,” I rasped.
Christ, this woman held my fucking heart in her hands and she had no idea how much power she had over it. No fucking idea at all. I loved her like I’d never loved anyone and I’d go tomy grave trying to make her happy. Even if that meant eating two fucking desserts, watching a show I couldn’t stand, and walking along a fucking river.
14
KING & LILY
KING
This takes place after King: The Epilogue book.
Me: You need to get naked.
Lily: Why?
Me: Because I’ll be home in ten minutes.
Lily: I’m busy, King.
Me: Well get unbusy.
Lily: It’s not something I can get unbusy from. I have the plumber here fixing the toilet.
Me: Jesus, I told you I’d fix that.
Lily: But you didn’t.
Me: He’s got ten minutes and then he’s out of there.
Lily: He won’t be finished in ten minutes.
I called her.
