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I hooked my arm around her as we walked out the sliding door.
“A hot bubble bath sounds nice.” She laid her head on my shoulder as we walked back to my house.
“I think so, too.” I pressed my lips against her head.
After starting the water, I stripped out of my clothes and climbed in. As the tub filled with water and bubbles, I stared at Ava while she pinned her hair up so it didn’t get wet. The moment she slipped out of her dress, my cock hardened. I held out my hand, and she placed hers in mine as I helped her into the tub. Sitting between my legs, she snuggled her back against my chest as my arms wrapped around her.
“Wasn’t this a good idea?” I asked.
“A wonderful idea.” Her fingers softly stroked my arm.
“Next Saturday is the gala for Shaun’s company. Will you go with me?”
“I was wondering when you were going to ask.” She smiled as she tilted her head back and stared at me.
“You know about it?”
“Jenni mentioned it earlier. She wants me to stop by her studio tomorrow to try on some dresses.”
“Perfect.” I leaned down and kissed her lips.
“I can’t even begin to tell you how much I really like all the girls.”
“Yeah. They’re great. We Kind men have excellent taste in women.”
“I agree.” She scrunched up her nose. “They’re such good mothers too. I can feel the love they have for their children. Just like mothers should.”
“You don’t remember anything about your mother?” I treaded carefully.
“I have a few memories here and there. I need to know what happened to me, Grayson. The others don’t think I can handle it, but they’re wrong. I’ve known about my condition for ten years and am a lot stronger. The thing that pisses me off is that we’re a family, and families shouldn’t keep secrets.”
“I agree, but they’re only doing what they were created to do,” I said.
“I understand that, but I will never completely heal until I find out why I was taken away from her. I tried to find her once.”
“You did?”
“Yeah. When I was sixteen, but then I lost a month’s worth of time, and when I woke up, I was in a psychiatric hospital. I guess I had some sort of mental breakdown at my foster home. I broke just about everything I could get my hands on and practically destroyed the place. That’s when I was committed to the mental facility under the care of Dr. Robbins. When I woke up and told him that I didn’t know where I was and asked why I was there, he told me that I had a schizophrenic episode. They had me pumped full of different medications that made me tired and numb. After working with Charles for a while, it came out that Kate was the one who did all the damage. She was trying to stop me from finding my mother.”
“I’m sorry you had to go through all of that.” My grip around her tightened.
“I was relieved when I found out about the others and met them because, finally, for the first time in my life, I didn’t feel like I was crazy. I felt a sense of peace. But even though I had these other people living inside me, I was still scared to be alone, hence the reason I found myself in many bad relationships.”
“That’s all in the past.” I pressed my lips against the top of her head. “We all make mistakes in our lifetime, and we can’t dwell on them. We can only move forward, which you’ve done.”
* * *
Iawoke, and Ava wasn’t in bed. Picking up my phone, I saw it was two a.m. I heard whimpering sounds, so I turned on the lamp on the nightstand and saw Ava huddled in the corner of the bedroom.
“Ava, what’s wrong?” I climbed out of bed.
“I had a bad dream,” she spoke in a childlike voice. “I’m scared, Grayson.”
It was then I knew she wasn’t Ava.
“Luna?”
She slowly nodded her head as her face stayed buried in her knees. Shit. I didn’t know what to do.
