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This time I don’t stop her, my wet clothes joining the towel on the floor as I crawl onto the bed, pushing the sheet completely out of the way so it’s my body that’s now covering her instead. Lu leans up, her mouth finding mine in a hungry kiss that leaves me breathless and my hands sliding down her ribcage, over her hip to her thigh, which I hitch around my hip.
“Aunt Lulu!?”
We both freeze.
“Aunt Lulu,” Ollie calls again. “Where are you?”
“Fuck,” Lu says, shoving me off her. I can’t help but laugh as she scrambles from the bed, grabbing a robe from the back of the door, which she quickly shuts. She pulls it on, wrapping it tightly around her before she turns back to me.
“Go,” I tell her, smiling. “I’ll sneak out the back.”
“I’m sorry,” she says, shaking her head.
I get out of bed and walk over to her. “It’s okay,” I whisper, my mouth at her ear. “We can pick this back up tonight,” I add, before opening the door and pushing her out.
The truck is pulling up as I reach the shed, Tommy and another guy are both standing there waiting. It had taken nearly thirty minutes for me to get out of the house, as I listened through the door to Lu trying to convince Ollie and Oscar to stay in the living room and watch TV.
In the end, I’d managed to sneak out the back, legging it across the lawn to my place in nothing but a bath towel, my wet clothes still on the floor in Lu’s bedroom.
Totally worth it though.
“Morning,” I say.
The other guy, who I think is called Greg, returns the greeting, but Tommy just nods, his face stony as he stands with his arms crossed over his chest. Not sure what the fuck his problem is.
The delivery driver gets out, his eyes scanning his clipboard before he looks up and says, “Jack?”
“That’d be me,” I say, stepping forward. Tommy mirrors the action, standing beside me as he watches the driver and I share a look.
“Okay,” the delivery guy eventually says. “Sign here.” He indicates on the form and I do as requested before all the parts for the crusher are unloaded.
When the truck’s empty, the guy leaves and I take in all the boxes, mentally checking them off with the list in my head.
“Everything here?” Greg asks.
“No,” I say, shaking my head as I skim over the invoice in my hands. “Two parts are missing.”
“You forgot to order them?” Tommy asks.
My head shoots up. “Of course I fucking didn’t,” I say.
Tommy shrugs. “Well, looks like you did,” he says before turning and walking into the shed.
I glance at Greg, who puts his hands up as if to saydon’t ask me. I shove the invoice at him asking him to check everything over before walking into the shed.
“Tommy!” I call out.
He stops, looks up at me.
“What the fuck was that about?” I ask, walking over to him.
“What?” he asks as though he’s got no idea.
I roll my eyes. “Out there, the order?”
He shrugs. “Well, someone forgot to order the parts.”
“Right,” I say, crossing my arms over my chest. “And you just assume that person was me.”
