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I want.
I want.
I want.
That’s what plays on repeat in my head when I’m around her. I want to suck her right there on that wet spot, lick her sweet tits and cup them in my hands. I want to wrap her long hair around my fist, lean her back so that I can run my tongue along the column of her neck. I want her to touch me, to press her hand between my legs and ease this ever-present ache in my cock. And I want to push inside of her, to take what I need and make her mine.
Is it so crazy? She’s almost twenty-two. She had to submit identification to get on the list of people who can pick Libs up from school, and yeah, I looked. So she’s not a kid, even though I’ve made a habit of calling her just that. And I’m twenty-nine. Seven years. Ok, almost eight years older. But is that so bad?
Damn, she just fits. I’ve been fighting my attraction to her since day one, been looking for faults that I just can’t find.
And then there’s Olivia. My daughter is crazy about her and I know the feeling is mutual. I hear the way Skylar speaks to my girl when she doesn’t know anyone is listening. She’s always looking to build her up, to shape her into the kind of person who loves herself, has confidence, and can handle whatever this life throws at you.
She’s a better mother to Olivia than Olivia’s mother ever was.
But therein lies the problem. Being with me means that Skylar will be taking on the role of Olivia’s mother. Can’t go back in time and date her like I would some other woman. She already has a strong bond with my daughter. She’s already a part of our family.
Being in a relationship with a single parent is different. I’m a package deal. Choice doesn’t factor into this. Any woman who’s in my life is in Olivia’s.
I’ll be taking away the future Skylar has mapped out for herself.
Someone took from me once. Doesn’t matter that it turned out well, that it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me. I won’t do that to Skylar. I won’t take from her because I know that she’ll give.
It’s just who she is.
Chapter Twenty-Four
Skylar
“Do I look all right?”
“If you’re asking me if you look like you hardly got any sleep this weekend, the answer is no. You look fine. What are you worried about?”
I shoot Leo a look. “I don’t want them to think I couldn’t handle it.”
I flick a dishtowel his way when he has the nerve to smirk, and the doorbell rings at the same time.
I sound like a squeaky mouse when I say, “They’re here!”
And the gig is up as soon as Garth and Sienna walk in the door and Olivia says, “James cry all the time.”
“Libs, he didn’t cry all the time.” Looking to my sister, I confess, “He wouldn’t take the bottle from me, Sienna. It got a little hairy.”
“Oh,” she rushes over to James and picks him up out of his seat. “Did you miss mommy? I missed you too!”
Garth shakes his head. “Next time he comes with us. Sienna talked about him nonstop, and she was crying last night because he was,” he uses air quotes, “so far away.” He moves to stand behind Sienna and kisses James’s head. “I missed you too, little guy.”
The picture the three of them make together leaves me welling up. They are a family. They don’t need anyone but each other. I’m sure it’s just exhaustion, but I feel like an outsider in that moment.
I think Olivia senses my melancholy, and surprises me when she comes up and hugs me around my hips and tells me she loves me.
I love you.
She breaks my heart and builds me up whenever she says it.
I turn just in time to see the troubled look on Leo’s face before he ducks out with some lame excuse about making a call for work.
It’s Sunday.
