BLAINE
Jesus, why did he have to be so damn sexy in the morning? His sexy hair looked in need of a haircut, but it did work on him, in fact, my fingers itched to run through it and wipe away from his forehead. I’d never known that even my soap smelled good on him that it never did on me.
Crap! What in the ever-loving heck happened to me? I’m a single mom for god’s sake. I needed to focus on my son and not to some hot— jerk. A huge jerk who wanted to bury his manhood to anyone had a hole.
I was taken aback by what he said before he left me alone. My room was my little sanctuary, but I couldn’t just push him out even the tension already thickened in the room that made my heartbeat quickened in my chest. Blame it on my dry spell.
Jeez, calm down!
His bright and warm cerulean blue eyes never missed meeting mine. He was playing catch with Ben. Why did he have to be so nice to my son? I didn’t want Ben to feel sad when it was his time to leave. I’m sure Ben would understand if he was not going to see him again, but of course, he would probably ask why he had not seen Xandry around.
I released a shaky sigh and closed the door behind me.
“Is everything okay?” He sauntered closer.
“Yeah, why wouldn’t it be?” I answered flatly.
“You just heaved a sigh, sweetheart.” He looked sincere, brows knitted.
“Don’t sweetheart me, Alexander, twenty-three.” I regretted once those words left my mouth because he just chuckled and shook his head in amusement.
Funny, huh?
“How did you know my age, Blaine Noelle?”
“Jeez, how I hate that name.” I wrinkled my nose in disgust. It just reminded me of my ex who called me Noelle because Blaine was too masculine and plain for him.
“Why? It’s beautiful. You’re just like Saphoera, she doesn’t like her name as well.”
My brow arched. “Saphira? Like from the Eragon?”
“Yeah, but spelled differently.”
“I mean who’s Saphira?”
had fun naming their children. My mom’s Samantha Lorraine, Dad’s Alexander Phoenix. They kinda mixed them together and gave me his first name my granddad’s name Henry. Saph was from
sweetheart. I don’t like
grinned like
sounds
drive. My great grandparents were originally
“That tells it all.”
dating Dad.” He smirked, something on that smirk
and he effortlessly caught them with one hand. I guessed he used to play catch. Or what other games does interest him? I placed Ben in the back seat and
mouth gaped when I saw them fist-bumping like they didn’t just meet yesterday. It made me so damn
arrived at my parents’ house in silence, only the country song humming from the radio that kept him from not hearing
as our car parked in front of the house. Xandry stiffened, jaw clenched, and readied to launch his whitened
unbuckled my seat belt and opened the door. “Finley!”
deployed to Hawaii. He was always closed to me like a big brother and had been very supportive of my decisions the
girl.” He wrapped his arms around me and lifted me up causing me to yelp
scanned the truck and landed his eyes on
bro.” Riley pulled us off easily. He chose to help his Daddy running the bar
Blaine? And why the fuck is he
is a kid around, ass-gator!” Xandry hissed, trying not to let Ben heard what he said as he moved toward my cousins. They were of the same sizes and height. Holy hell with all these testosterone
just her F—”
“A sperm donor?”
breath escaped my mouth. “Xandry!”
own voice, my cousins laughed out loud, high-fived each other, and said, ‘I
in disbelief as I watched Xandry’s brows furrowed in confusion.
smile, making a few lines at the corner
his hand, still confused.
“Leave him alone, Finley!” Uncle Max yelled from the
gripped Finley’s large hand like his and did
sigh and opened the door to Ben.
jumped into his uncle as soon as he was freed
“Careful, Ben.”
the barbecue,” said Riley, leaving me alone beside my car utterly dumbfounded.
***
the grill smoke with my
fire of the two huge grill stands. These two guys knew how to grill like in a five-star restaurant. Mom made her famous salad, pecan, and peach pie. Auntie
Bianca was laughing with Cam, Carissa, Auntie Miranda, and my mom while Daddy, Pyke, Kyland, Uncle Max, and Xandry chatted with the local beers on the table. My parents always invited close friends and relatives when we
effing fire, who invited those bitches?” asked Charlie with wide eyes.
gaze landed on the two bitches walking
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