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With that, she scurried from the kitchen, and I returned to the stove. Iwasbeing careful. It was just sex. Distracting sex because Summer was homesick and needed something else to focus on.
That’s all it was; no problems could arise when we’d already discussed how Summer was fair game so long as she wanted us.
And yet, underneath my skin, my heart beat with the thrum of a liar as if it knew more than it was willing to tell me.
16
SUMMER
In the days that I had been here, I hadn’t had much time to think over what I’d been getting up to. I’d slept with Theo, Jax, and now Luke; all because I found them utterly irresistible, and Luke had been the perfect distraction from Felix and his threats.
The only problem was, as soon as it was over, Felix invaded my thoughts once more, and he was harder to shake in the quiet of the night.
Luckily there was one thing that was more reliable than sex when it came to keeping my mind busy; the children. I had only been their nanny for a week, but I’d quickly learned just how much constant energy was required to keep them occupied. I rose to the challenge, especially when they would start to get antsy at the absence of their fathers.
“Stay,” Kane whined, clinging onto Theo’s leg as he tried to step away. “Stay!”
“Kane,” Theo scolded sharply, then he crouched down to his son’s level and brushed his cheek. “I’m sorry buddy. I have an important call to take, and I know, I know it’s not supposed to be like this but as soon as I’m wrapped up, I’ll be back with you until bedtime, okay?”
“So boring,” Kane huffed, and he turned, stomping his feet back to the activity table I’d set up. A flash of pain crossed Theo’s face, and I flashed him a sympathetic smile.
“He’ll be okay,” I reassured Theo quietly.
“I feel like I’m becoming one of those parents I hate, putting work first.” Theo sighed and dragged a hand over his jaw.
“It’s just one thing,” I said, trying to soothe. “He’ll have forgotten by the time you’re back and tucking him into bed.”
“I hope so.”
“Theo!” Luke poked his head over the banister above. “Need ya, buddy. Hi Ava!”
“Go away, Daddy!” Ava yelled, throwing her small body over the project she was working on. Luke laughed and promptly vanished.
“I better go. Good luck.” With that, Theo turned and hurried back up the stairs. Once he left, I moved to the activity table where Ava whined sharply as her movements had shifted her carefully laid paper-mache.
“I ruined it,” Ava whined as I settled next to her.
“Oh, sweetie, no. We can fix it. Let me look. Bonnie, are you getting on okay?”
Bonnie lifted her head, and I bit back a laugh as a strip of crepe paper came with her.
“I’m okay,” she smiled, then she returned to her work.
My idea had been for each of them to create their own handmade decorations to put on the tree. Bonnie was working on a star that had so many points I’d lost count. Ava had taken a photo of her and created a frame for it which was why she was so intent on hiding it from view. Kane, however, other than throwing down a splotch of paint onto the ball he had created, had fallen out with the project.
After smoothing out Ava’s paper-mache and checking that Bonnie wasn’t getting glitter anywhere she shouldn’t, I scooched over to Kane.
“Hey, have you thought of what you’d like to make yet?”
“No.”
“What about something to do with Batman?”
“No.”
“A star or a frame like Ava?”
“No.”
