Chandler: A Standalone Contemporary Romance by Laurelin Paige

Author:Laurelin Paige [Paige, Laurelin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paige Press LLC
Published: 2016-09-19T21:00:00+00:00

11

“I have hair on my arms and my legs,” Mina says as she fills her coloring sheet with red scribbles. “But that doesn’t make me a boy.”

Genevieve bites her lip, stifling a giggle.

“That’s right,” I say, adding purple hair to the princess Mina’s insisted I color. “Doesn’t make you a boy.”

When we’d arrived, the party was in full swing. I’d dropped our bags off in our room, changed into my suit, then instead of searching out my parents, I brought Genny to the designated children’s area to meet the other most important girl in my life—my niece.

Not that it really mattered if they liked each other or not. If I were really interested in Genny, it would, though. Mina and I are tight. A girl wants to be in my world, she has to get that Mina and I are a package deal. I couldn’t spend any real time with a woman who didn’t understand that.

But Genny and I are only here for Hudson. So whatever.

Still, I’m quite happy when the two of them hit it off instantly. Really happy.

Which is why I’m hanging out in a tent in our garden at Mabel Shores, crammed onto a kid-sized folding chair, coloring from a Frozen activity book at a kid-sized round craft table while grinning ear to ear. Behind us, my other niece, Arin, is digging dirt out of the ground with a plastic spoon and singing to herself, as she frequently does. A handful of other children run between the tables, throwing grass at each other. And the most beautiful woman in the world is smiling at my side.

I’m telling you—this might be heaven.

Mina pauses her coloring and looks inquisitively at my date. “Do you have hair on your arms and legs too?”

“I do. Though I take it off of my legs.”

“Why?”

Mina’s three. Why is her favorite word in her vocabulary.

Genevieve frowns. “That’s a good question. I guess I like the way it feels to have smooth skin.” She absentmindedly runs her hand up and down her shin.

Mina notices. “Can I feel?” She doesn’t wait for permission before reaching out her tiny hand to smooth it over Genny’s skin. “Ooh. Soft.”

It’s only been an hour since our side-of-the-road sexcapade, but I can’t pass up the opportunity to touch her. “Can I feel, too? Please?”

I’m met with a stern look, but how can she resist me?

“Go ahead,” she says with chagrin.

I stroke up her calf, delighting at the path of goose bumps that arise at my touch. “You were right, Mina. Super soft.”

She twirls a lock of dark hair around her finger and thinks for a minute. “Does it hurt to take your hair off?”

Genevieve shakes her head. “Not usually.”

I study my niece as she tilts her head, her small features furrowed. “You’ve given her a lot to think about,” I tell my date.

“I hope it’s not anything that gets me in trouble with her parents.”

Like me, I’m sure Genny’s imagining Mina sneaking into her mother’s bathroom and taking a razor

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