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What a fucking shitshow pair of realizations.
He didn’t even think to announce himself, because he was caught so off guard by the moment. By the feeling. And when Frankie turned, she startled, her eyes going wide, and her whole body bouncing, which drew his eyes to her breasts. Unfortunately, a part of Frankie hehadlooked at before. Wet and highlighted by a sodden white shirt. But then, his boys had been lurking around with water balloons.
And now they weren’t.
Now they were alone.
Just him, Frankie, and her gorgeous rack.
He looked back at her eyes quickly.
“Sorry,” he said.
He hoped she took that as an apology for startling her, and not checking her out. He was hoping she’d missed that he was checking her out.
“Oh. I just... You’re not usually sneaky. You’re a big man with big boots.”
“I didn’t mean to be sneaky,” he said.
And he felt distinctly like a little boy with his hand caught in the cookie jar, which he was not. He was a grown ass man.
He was thirty-eight years old. Frankie was twenty-four.
He had known her since she wasfourteen. He repeated those facts in his head like they meant something. Like they would make her ass less round, and her breasts less tempting.
Walker had left sex behind him. Notforever. Notintentionally. But he’d been raising his boys. And at first there had been grief tangled up in that. Anna was the only woman he’d ever been with. He had loved her so very much. At first, the idea of sleeping with someone else seemed like a betrayal. Like something he would never want to do because that part of him had belonged to her. He’d let that go quite a while ago. But he hadn’t been done parenting. And he had never felt like asking Frankie to stay with the boys overnight so he could get laid.
Now it was all coming home to roost in a very bizarre way.
No. A moment of attraction, a moment of looking at her ass didn’t mean anything. It certainly didn’t erase the long term, totally appropriate connection between the two of them.
It hadn’t been erased two years ago when he’d seen the dark shadows of her nipples through her T-shirt, so it could hardly be erased now.
“You called my dad,” she said. She sounded vaguely accusing, though not really angry.
“Yes I did. Because he’s my friend, and I thought he ought to know that his daughter was having issues. I sure as hell would want to know if one of my kids had been broken up with and kicked out of their house.”
She frowned. “I know that you’re my dad’s friend. But aren’t you my friend too?”
He gritted his teeth. “Yes. I’m taking care of you. As a friend.”
“Kind of seems like maybe it’s a favorto my dad. And actually, I don’t want a favor either way. I think I can help you. You wouldn’t have been home to make yourself food.”
“No, I wouldn’t have been. That is true.”
He also wouldn’t have had to stare his own personal midlife crisis in the face. Or tits.
“I don’t need my dad worrying about me. I don’t want them to ask me to go to Montana. I’m not interested in Montana.”
“I get it. Your life is here.”
It wasn’t her fault that he’d noticed her body. He shouldn’t take that frustration out on her. It wasn’t fair.
She nodded slowly. “I should say I’m not interested in Montana right now. But maybe you’re right. Maybe it’s time for me to figure out what to do next.”
“Frankie, all that came out all wrong earlier. I wasn’t thinking.”
“I think you might’ve been thinking. It’s true. I’m the nanny. You don’t need me when you don’t havekids. I just hadn’t accepted that.”
