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She smiles, and her tongue darts out and licks at my neck just below my earlobe.
“I can rally,” she whispers.
My cock grows hard at the contact and the words from her sweet mouth, and I groan.
Her hand travels down my chest toward the zipper on my jeans, and I place mine on it to halt her progress.
She jerks back in surprise. “What’s wrong?” she asks.
“Um, I have a headache,” I rattle off the lie.
“A headache? Really?” she scoffs.
“Yep, a pounding one. Started on the way home. It’s killing me.”
Her frustration turns to concern as she brings the back of her hand to my forehead.
“No fever. You’ve been working too hard since the resort opened. Your body is probably trying to tell you to slow down,” she says.
She’s right. I’ve been working twelve-hour, sometimes fourteen-hour days since Thanksgiving.
I take her hand in mine. “I’m sorry, baby. It’s been hectic with it being our first season, but I promise I’ll slow down. I’m planning to have Morris trained to take on more responsibility before the baby comes so I can be here for you two.”
She smiles. “That’s great news. I think he’ll do well.”
“So do I.”
Headlights flash across the window as we hear the rumble of an engine.
Isley’s brows furrow. “Who could that be at this hour?”
I stand. “I’ll go see.”
I walk to the front door just as the four people pile out of the truck. I can feel Isley come up behind me and peek around my shoulder.
“Mom! Daddy!” Isley exclaims.
“Surprise, sweetheart. I thought it’d be nice to have your parents here for our first Christmas,” I say as I turn to the side.
She hurries past me and down the front steps, her eyes welling up with tears of joy, and I follow.
Her mother, Evelyn, catches her in a tight embrace.
“How are you here?” Isley asks.
“Langford made all the arrangements. He bought the tickets for the three of us and sent a car to pick us up at your brother’s house and take us to the airport in Pheonix and his father was waiting when we landed in Knoxville and drove us here,” her mom explains.
“The three of you?”
“Yes, let me introduce you to Ezra. He is your father’s nurse. He comes out to help us twice a week, but Langford thought that it might be easier on your father, on both of us, to have Ezra travel with us.”
Isley and I shake the jovial gentleman’s hand, and I thank him for being willing to spend the holiday away from his family to be with ours.
“It’s my pleasure. I’ll have many more years to spend with them, God willing. It’s important for Mr. and Mrs. Paysour to have this time with their family. Besides, I was promised time on the slopes,” Ezra says.
“All the time you want.”
Isley’s father looks around in confusion.
