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The smile on my face grows even wider when she looks to find me.
“Atta girl!” I cup my hands around my mouth and cheer for her. She does a little victory dance until Dylan sweeps in, picking her up and spinning her around.
Quinn throws her head back, laughing. When she playfully smacks him, he puts her down. I wish I could hear their exchange. He seems like a decent guy, but I don’t give a shit whether or not she wants to admit it.She’s fucking mine.
Seeing his hands wrapped around her toned, exposed waist has fury burning through my body.
I’m on edge when a text comes through from my lawyer.
Craig
I got the papers all squared away to file for primary custody. With everything you told me, it shouldn’t be an issue. Sign the document I emailed over and I’ll file first thing Monday morning.
Relief washes over me. My chest aches for my girls, but truthfully, I wouldn’t feel comfortable leaving them with Cami at this point. Their safety and well-being are of the utmost priority. It’s very clear she has a certain lifestyle she wants to keep up, and it doesn’t involve raising her daughters.
My mother’s suggestion of asking Quinn to be my nanny takes over my thoughts. I know she’s in between jobs right now, and from what little she’s told me about herself lately, she has really found a passion for working with young kids. The girls flock to her already. She’s so good with them.
Quinn had asked me for space, and I’m doing everything possible not to be selfish and break that request. I need her… but I also know a big part of me wants to ask her in hopes of repairingus.
I want to show her we can be friends… we can be everything. Nothing has changed for me. My heart has never wavered.
Two points later, and Quinn’s team wins. I grab a cold water and take it over to her.
Pulling Quinn in for a sweaty hug, I give Dylan a look that saysback the fuck up.
“Felt like old times watching you dominate out there.” She takes the bottle of water from me, that victorious smile of hers still firmly in place. “Take a walk with me?” I ask, pushing a loose caramel-colored strand behind her ear. I’ve missed her so much—I have this uncontrollable need to touch her any chance I get.
She stares at me for a few beats before she finishes chugging the water and nods toward the shoreline.
I’m putting all my cards on the line… hoping the Queen is in my favor today.
* * *
Quinn
We walk along the water’s edge in comfortable silence. Until we come up on a family standing around a jellyfish that washed up on shore.
Eli and I immediately look at each other and burst out laughing. Both of us obviously recalling a particular incident from many summers ago.
“I can’t believe I was actually going to let you pee on me,” I say, shaking my head at how naïve we were.
He’s still laughing… a sound I’ve missed immensely.
“The fact that I was so ready to whip my pants down and pee on your leg just because Wes told us it would make the pain from the jellyfish sting go away just proves I should have been your number one BFF all along.”
I roll my eyes at him and start laughing again, remembering the horror in our dads’ eyes when they found Sloan, Wes, and Maddie holding up towels around Eli and me right as Eli was about to pull his pants down.
“That was one of the first times I ever remember hearing my dad say ‘fuck.’” He literally pushed Wes out of the way and the minute his eyes landed on me sitting on the ground and Eli standing above me with his hands on his waistband.
“Yeah, and then the conversation they had with each of us afterwards was the most awkward twenty minutes of my life.” Eli shivers like it still gives him the heebie-jeebies.
Our moms took us girls into a separate room and the dads were responsible for the boys, except Brayden. He was still too young. We had the birds and bees conversation, including that we were all too old now and there would be no more taking our clothes off in front of the opposite sex.
“Honestly, as an adult… that shit is hilarious to think back on. I can’t imagine what was running through our dads’ minds at the time. I mean, you were like ten years old. It wasn’t like you were about to give me head.”
I start to giggle, but the last part of his statement has me recalling all the times I was on the ground in front of him for a very different reason.Shit. My pussy aches at the thought. Eli’s eyes darken for a split second before he looks ahead of us again. He wipes his hand over his face, likely trying to stop the same thoughts I’m having.
“Look, Q… I have something I want to discuss with you. I want you to be completely honest with me regarding what I’m about to ask you.”
