Falling For the Single Daddy: An Instalove Alpha Romance by Flora Ferrari

Author:Flora Ferrari [Ferrari, Flora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2025-01-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Gray

I get home from work early the next day. Callie and Emery are in the yard again; Emery is jumping up and down on the trampoline while Callie reclines on a lawn chair, a book in her lap, her legs crossed. Usually, I’d let my gaze settle over her delicious thighs, let my mind flood with fantasies about kissing up her legs, pushing them apart, and finding her heat. Now, I won’t even have to imagine how her perfect body would feel. I’d lick and stroke her virgin slit…

But no. Not anymore. Callie made her feelings clear last night. Plus, Sloane is going to be here in a couple of hours. The last thing she needs is any indication that I’ve got the hots for the nanny. Knowing her, she’d get jealous or at least pretend to be in order to hurt me. She’s a vicious, manipulative person. Even Wes, after a few drinks, will admit as much. But he always focuses on her so-called good points when he sobers up.

“Daddy!” Emery carefully climbs down from the trampoline, glancing at Callie for approval in a way that tells me Callie has told her to use caution.

Emery runs over and throws herself into a hug. “Is Mommy still coming?”

“Yes,” I tell her.

“Okey-dokey,” she says. She’s clearly trying to be more upbeat. I tell myself it’s a good thing, but I’m still concerned about what will happen if she gets too attached and then Sloane disappears, which she undoubtedly will.

Or what if she doesn’t? What if Sloane sticks around, actually parents Emery, and makes Emery more similar to her every single day? I’m not sure which would be worse.

Callie approaches, tying her hair in a bun. I don’t let myself notice the sun bouncing off her cheeks. I don’t let my hungry gaze move over the gradations of her voluptuous body. Or I try not to, anyway, which is better than yesterday.

“Are you sure you still want me to join you?”

“Sloane doesn’t want me third wheeling,” I say. “And she’s determined to bring a date.” I watch as Emery returns to the trampoline, moving out of earshot. “She might be up to something. She often is. I wish I could tell her to back off. But I have to put Emery first. If we can get through this dinner, she’ll get bored. Move on. It’s always how she’s been. Get involved—back off. Then repeat. It’s her specialty.”

“Well, I’ll just be the nanny,” she says, looking down at the ground, not at me.

There’s something almost offensive to me about that. I spoke to Wes earlier. When I told him what happened, he sighed and said, “Dammit, man. You need to be careful. She’s given you a taste now. She knows you’re going to want more.” I almost felt the crazy urge to punch my best friend’s teeth in. There was a moment when I seriously considered it. I wanted to grab him and bellow in his face, “She’s not manipulating me, you ass.

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