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Shit.
If I wasn’t careful, this could go the wrong way.
“I’ll see you in the morning,” Troy said, and he left the room, walking down the hallway to the spare bedroom. The kids’ rooms were on either side of the spare room, and what used to be my room belonged to Tammy now.
I slid deeper into the covers and closed my eyes. My body still hummed with the feel of Troy inside of me, and I curled deliciously under the covers.
This couldnothappen again.
9
TROY
WhenIblinkedmyeyes open, three pairs of eyes stared at me.
I frowned. The three kids all sat on the edge of my bed, watching me.
“How long have you guys been in here?” I asked in a hoarse voice, completely disoriented.
“Do you like cereal?” Benjamin asked.
“Yeah,” I said. “It does the trick in a pinch.”
“What’s a pinch?” Tammy asked.
I fell back on the pillows with a sigh.
“Auntie Mackie is making eggs. I said I wanted chocolate cereal, but I can’t because she says it’s a lot of sugar for so early on a Sunday.”
“How early is early?” I asked after Benjamin’s speech about the injustice of his life.
“I don’t know,” Tammy said. “Auntie Mackie said it’s early.”
I groaned and reached for my phone on the nightstand. It was seven in the morning.
Fucking perfect.
“Do you like coffee?” Benjamin asked.
“My life depends on it,” I said.
“Do you like milk?”
He kept asking me questions about every single thing I liked or didn’t like. I assumed he listed all the things he liked.
When I walked into the kitchen, Mackenzie was standing in front of the stove, and I wanted to wrap my arms around her and nuzzle her neck. She frowned when she saw me.
“I thought you guys were watching a movie,” she said. “Did you wake Troy up?”
“The TV won’t work,” Tammy said.
Mackenzie frowned and walked to the light switch, flipping it up and down.
“Shit, the power is out.”
“Auntie Mackie said a bad word,” Benjamin tattled.
“Yeah, that was bad,” Mackenzie said. “Sorry. I didn’t realize the power was out, you guys.” She’d been cooking on the gas stove.
