“I told you, Amelia’s veggies.”
“Smartass,” he murmurs, brushing his lips over mine.
I smile into the kiss. “I’m thinking pizza with Abbi and Maddox might be good.”
Winter looks down at me and nods. “Yeah, I think that’s a good plan. I’ll order it now. Do you want the usual?”
Pizza with our older kids is something we try to do once a month. We put Amelia to bed and hang out with them for a few hours, eating, talking, and laughing. It’s often the time when we learn what’s going on in their lives, like a monthly update.
“Yes, the usual.” I hook my hand around his neck and pull his face down so I can kiss him again. “I love you.”
“Good. You can show me how much later.” He lightly smacks my ass and then lets me go.
“Did you wake up thinking about your dick today?” He’s mentioned it far more than usual today.
“Baby, I wake up thinking about it every day. It fucking beats any alternative. And you haven’t wrapped your lips around it often enough lately.”
He’s right. Where we used to have sex daily, this year we’ve been lucky to have it twice a week. I’m too damn tired.
“You should see my earlier statement in which I told you I quit my parenting job. We could go back to all the sex in the world,” I say.
He smiles as he slides stray strands of hair off my face. “We’ll get back there one day.”
“Yes, and by then you’ll be old and arthritic and barely able to lift me. Hell, you mightn’t even be able to get it up anymore.”
“I don’t need to lift you to fuck you. And I’ll take whatever drugs we need me to take to get it up. There’s no way I’m not fucking my wife once our kids are off our hands.” His eyes soften. “But we both know neither of us would trade what we’ve got now for more sex.”
I reach for his shirt, my entire body flooding with love for him. “You should go and order pizza before I demand you get naked with me instead.”
With one last kiss, he exits the bathroom and then the bedroom, leaving me with my thoughts. Also, leaving me with a phone that’s going berserk with text messages.
I snatch it up off the bed as I think about Maddox and what I learned today about him and Bri. I know him, so I know he wouldn’t have cheated on Leia, but still, this all came as a surprise. I’m going to need time on my meditation cushion to process it all.
There are a stack of texts from the group. I don’t have time to read them all now and am about to slip my phone into my pocket when Winter texts the group.
Winter
Scott, I’ll be in Brisbane in two weeks. Now, can someone remove me from this group? No fucking way can I sit through a million texts a day.
Nash comes straight back.
Nash
Good fuckin’ luck, brother. This is the gift that keeps on fuckin’ giving. And no one gets out once they’re in. Except King. That fucker somehow managed to get out.
A smile fills my face.
I want some of Scarlett’s popcorn.
“How the helldid we end up with no kids and three pizzas that are going to put me in a food coma that will leave me unable to summon the energy for sex later?” I ask as I drop down onto the couch next to Winter.
He leans over and takes my piece of pizza from me.
I frown as he places it back in the pizza box. “Why did you take my pizza?”
“I’m preserving your energy for more important things. And as far as the kids are concerned, it’s Friday night. We should have known not to bother with pizza tonight.” Maddox and Abbi ditched us for a party.
I reach for my pizza. “If you take this again, your dick won’t see my lips, my hands, or anything for a long time.”
