Dashboard Lights by Jena Wade

Author:Jena Wade [Wade, Jena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jena Wade
Published: 2019-01-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Oliver

By some miracle, we managed to get the basement, the living room, and three of the bedrooms painted, including my room and Christopher’s. I left the other rooms for Kayden and Jackson to decide on the color, after all they'd be living here in a few more weeks.

Sunday morning, I got up and made coffee. Philip hadn't gone home at all throughout the weekend. Instead, he’d opted to stay with me, in my bed. I worried about what others in town would say, but then again, I didn't really care. In the past two weeks, Philip had informed a number of people about Christopher and myself. He’d done a good job stating enough of the facts to not spark malicious rumors, but also give off the vibe that it was nobody's business but our own. By now, I’m sure everyone in town knew that Christopher was Philip’s son.

“When do you have to leave to pick Christopher up?” Philip asked. He wrapped his arms around my waist and kissed my neck.

I glanced at the clock on the stove. “I need to leave in about fifteen minutes if I'm going to make it there and back before lunch. Otherwise, we'll have to pick up some fast food or something. Christopher will need a bath before bed tonight and I'm sure he'll be exhausted from playing with Jackson all weekend, so he may take a nap this afternoon.”

Philip hugged me tighter. “I want to see our son, but I don't want this weekend to end.”

I turned around in his arms so that we were facing each other. “It doesn't have to really. I mean, unless you want it to. I just figured that…”

He raised his eyebrows.

“Well, unless this was just a…” I trailed off again, words weren’t coming to me.

Philip chuckled. “No, this was not just a one-time thing. But how do we tell Christopher?”

“I don't know. I would think he'd be ecstatic that we're together. But I don't want to throw too much at him at once. New school, new house, new dad, and me in a relationship. He's never seen that before. Let's just take it slow.”

“Okay,” Philip nodded. “That's what I was thinking. We can continue like we've been doing. Maybe on the days I don't have to work, I'll just stay overnight, and we'll see what happens? I can sneak in and out.”

“Yeah,” I said. “But we can also talk to him about it. No sneaking required.”

Philip grinned. “I'm going to take your lead on this. You're the expert. I'm still new.”

I smiled. “You're doing a great job though. Christopher already loves you.”

“I love him,” Philip said. “He's amazing.”

“Yeah, he is. Do you want to come with me to go get him? You can meet my friend Kaden. Once he moves in here, you’ll be seeing quite a bit of him.”

“Sure,” Philip said. “I don't have anything to do today. I've got to work first thing in the morning, but that's all right.”

“What’s your schedule for the next month,” I said.

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