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?”
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
I don’t like
He grinned like an idiot. A
sounds ancient.”
me drive. My great grandparents were originally from England.”
it all.”
she just started dating Dad.” He smirked, something on that smirk that held promises which made my heart
threw the keys to him 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 fastened his seat belt before I got to the passenger seat
when I saw them fist-bumping like they didn’t just meet
We arrived at my parents’ house in silence, only the country song humming from the radio that kept him from not hearing
and Riley strode to us as soon as our car parked in front of the house. Xandry stiffened,
belt and opened
been deployed to Hawaii. He was always closed to me like a big brother and had been
girl.” He wrapped his arms around me and lifted me
scanned the truck and landed his eyes on Xandry who was already silently getting out.
He chose to help his Daddy
fuck is he driving your car?” Finley’s
eff when there 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 exuded
her F—”
sperm
sharp breath escaped my mouth. “Xandry!”
loud, high-fived each other, and said, ‘I
I grunted in disbelief as I watched Xandry’s brows
“Finley.” He extended his hand with a wide smile, making a few lines at the corner of this his eyes
looked down at his hand, still
alone, Finley!” Uncle Max yelled from the
Finley’s large hand like his and did the same to Riley.
and opened the
into his uncle as soon as he was
“Careful, Ben.”
“Let’s get inside, man. We’re about to start the barbecue,” said Riley, leaving me alone beside my car utterly dumbfounded.
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table away from the grill smoke with
These two guys knew how to grill like in a five-star restaurant. Mom made her famous salad, pecan, and peach pie. Auntie Miranda
Kyland, Uncle Max, and Xandry chatted with the local beers on the table.
“Holy ball of effing fire, who invited those
rushed quickly to my brain when my gaze landed on the two bitches walking toward my
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