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?”
My parents 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
don’t like Ben
He grinned
sounds
keys and let me drive. My
it all.”
Mom said when she just started dating Dad.” He smirked, something on that smirk that held promises which made my heart
catch. Or what other games does interest him? I placed Ben in the back seat and fastened his
them fist-bumping like they didn’t just meet yesterday. It made
house in silence, only the country song humming from the radio that kept him from not
car parked in front of the house. Xandry stiffened, jaw clenched, and readied to launch his whitened knuckles that unknowingly gripping the steering wheel
unbuckled my seat belt and opened the
Marine-corps who’d been deployed to Hawaii. He was always closed to me like a big brother and had been very supportive of
me
Finley scanned the truck and landed his eyes on Xandry who was already silently
chose to help his Daddy running the bar instead
Blaine? And why the fuck is he driving your car?” Finley’s voice thundered.
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 exuded guys.
her F—”
“A sperm donor?”
A sharp breath escaped my
I could recognize my own voice, my cousins laughed out loud, high-fived each other,
I
hand with a wide smile, making a few
his hand, still confused.
alone, Finley!” Uncle Max yelled from
gripped Finley’s large hand like
opened the door to Ben.
uncle as soon as he was freed from the seat
Ben.”
about to start the barbecue,” said
***
round table away from the grill smoke with my best friends Olive and Charlie.
two huge grill stands. These two guys knew how to grill like in a
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.
effing fire, who invited those bitches?” asked Charlie with wide eyes.
when my gaze landed on the two bitches walking toward my mom’s table. “Who invited them?”
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