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Linc put his arms around me, pressed himself against my backside, and dropped his mouth to my throat.
“Sounds kinky,” he teased.
I turned around and grabbed him by one of my favorite parts.
“I’ll squeeze these like grapes,” I threatened, “if you do not let go of me right this instant.”
Linc was the reason that I was in this mess in the first place.
I was tired, cranky, in the middle of cooking dinner for the fourteenth day in a row, and I was irritable.
Oh, and I was pregnant.
Again.
In fact, I was about two seconds from popping, and now I had to deal with the Corona virus, the threat of only having Linc in the hospital with me, and my mother and stepfather not being there. Nor, for that matter, would Linc’s parents.
Needless to say, I was not in a good place.
“Yes, ma’am.” Linc pressed a kiss to my cheek. “What we got, monster?”
• • •
LINC
Sasha, my eldest, was now in second grade.
She was working on subtracting.
“It’s telling you that you need to add up to subtract,” Conleigh grumbled under her breath. “What the hell does that even mean? What’s so bad about subtracting double digit numbers the old way? I mean, she knows how to borrow.”
I knew what she meant, and by the time I’d figured out how to ‘add to subtract’ I was just as frustrated as Conleigh.
“Does that help you any, baby?” I asked Sasha.
Mila, not to be ignored, came toddling over, her hands going to my shorts and nearly pulling them all the way down in her exuberance to get in my arms.
I bent down and lifted her, easily hefting her onto my hip, and waited for Sasha to answer me.
“You do the next one,” I suggested when she just looked at me blankly.
“Can I do it my way?” she asked, sounding hopeful.
I barely caught the urge to roll my eyes.
“If you get the right answer at this point, sweetie, I don’t care how you do it,” I said.
That’s when she did the subtracting the old-fashioned way.
“Looks like your kid’s going to go back to school not using that common core crap,” I said to Conleigh.
Conleigh looked green.
“What’s wrong?” I asked.
She shook her head. “Nothing.”
I knew when my wife was lying.
