Get Over Me by Lina Langley

Author:Lina Langley [Langley, Lina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Half Past Three
Published: 2018-08-27T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

After the night with Sean—it wasn’t a night with Sean, really, and Knight had to stop treating it like it was. He hadn’t even slept in the same room. He didn’t know why, every time he closed his eyes, his mind would wander back to Sean sleeping in his bed, the duvet on his body as he held it close.

It shouldn’t have been sexy.

Knight had carried Sean to bed plenty of times, and every single one of those times, he had walked away with a shake of the head and a sour taste in his mouth. He didn’t want to judge Sean’s lifestyle choices, because he was only a kid after all, but after Knight had gotten to know him again as an adult, it felt like his frame of reference was all wrong.

The man on his bed wasn’t a kid.

He was a man, sure, a struggling one, but he was a man. And he was trying.

Knight could see that every day, when Sean woke up early in the morning and hung out with his sister before he took her out to the park or for a swim. He was not a morning person, but he went along with her bursts of morning energy.

He had even taught himself how to sew so he could make clothes for her barbies. There was even a twinkle in his eyes when he looked at her. Knight had always seen it, he just hadn’t seen it when Sean was exhausted and looked like he was going to pass out, which happened far too often for Knight’s liking.

He’d found Sean sleeping on the couch with his phone almost falling out of his hand, with a book on his face, a pillow on the floor and his head on a twisted arm.

It was Knight’s job to make sure that nothing happened to the president’s children. He didn’t think he did a poor job of it, but he was worried about how distracted he was getting lately just by looking at Sean.

His awareness had been sharply taken from his surroundings and it was focused on Sean. On the way his clothes fit him, on that grin that made his eyes sparkle.

Knight would sit down in a semi-circle and play barbies with Ellie and Sean. Their gazes would meet when she would say something cute or funny and they would both hold back the urge to laugh.

He would watch Sean carry an exhausted Ellie to bed then collapse on the sofa when he tried to watch a TV show. Knight would put the throw blanket on him, making sure it covered his feet, and he would lean back on the wall and stare at the reflection of Sean’s body on the television screen.

Matilda had caught him a couple of times, but she knew better than to say anything. There was nothing to say, anyway. If this was just a crush—and it was definitely just a crush—then it was going to go away with time and there was nothing to be done about it but wait.

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