Booze O'clock by Bijou Hunter

Author:Bijou Hunter [Hunter, Bijou]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: biker romance, funny, comedic, Humor
Publisher: Bijou Hunter
Published: 2018-05-12T16:00:00+00:00

CHIPPER

Before Tatum is halfway up the staircase, I’m searching for her phone in her purse. Unsure how long she’ll be gone, I rush to pull up her photo gallery where I find a shit ton of photos of Tatum and her mother.

Even in a hurry, I stop to enjoy a few pictures. Marissa Dole gave birth to her double with Tatum. I don’t see anything of Howler in the younger blonde while the smiling women are nearly twins. I hope our children take after their mother so Marissa can live on in them.

I eventually remember how I’m on a time crunch and Tatum might return any moment. I transfer the photos to my phone and then to my Cloud account to allow Bianca Bella access to them.

Texting the brunette, I ask her to go through the photos and pick the best ones to print and frame.

I end with, “ASAP!”

“UR not my bossssssss!” she texts back.

“Please?”

“OK then. ☺”

With Bianca Bella on the job, I return Tatum’s phone to her purse. Stealth mode complete, I sit on the couch and flip through her photos on my phone.

One takes my breath away. Tatum as a goofy teen with an overly layered haircut and way too much eyeshadow is possibly the sexiest photo I’ve ever seen. I can nearly feel what she was like not so long ago—effortlessly beautiful and terribly dorky.

The hundreds of pictures I flip through reveal Tatum’s life from when she was a baby on her mom’s hip to weeks ago when Marissa lied on her deathbed. I feel as if I know her better by the time she returns to the living room with red, blotchy, yet dry eyes.

“I’m sorry I complained so much about my job,” she says, sitting next to me as I tuck my phone in my pocket. “The best part of working at the daycare was spending all day with Mom. Now I have a job where I can spend all day with you. I see things more clearly now.”

“Smart girl.”

“Besides, I’ll be pregnant soon, and then the baby will be born, and I’ll have him to keep me company.”

Startled by her certainty, I find myself speechless for a minute. “Do you want to be pregnant soon?”

“I figured you wanted to compete with Cricket, and I’m very interested in a baby with you now that I know you’re part alien.”

I laugh at the wink she gives me and then imagine our baby looking just like her. Unless it’s a boy. I can’t pray for freckles on my son. He’d never forgive me. Girls have more leeway on that.

“What now?” she asks.

I take her hand and caress her soft knuckles. “We should play a game.”

“Like Yahtzee?”

“More like hide-and-seek. You’ll find a spot in the house and make knocking noises until I find you. We can time it. If I find you in less than a minute, you have to take off a piece of clothing. If I take longer than a minute, I’ll take off a piece of clothing.

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