Love Lessons: A Single Dad Romance (Woodvale Book 2) by Katie Cawood

Author:Katie Cawood [Cawood, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Katie Cawood
Published: 2024-03-29T00:00:00+00:00

chapter twenty-five

mason

We were lucky the bouncy castle began deflating as we slept—otherwise, we might have awoken to a crew of amused carnival ride disassemblers in the morning. We scrambled to gather our discarded clothes and crawled out before it could fully collapse on us, only to have to re-inflate it because I’d lost my phone in there. Not only that, but we thought it might be respectful to clean up after ourselves.

I was still smiling as I tiptoed into the dark house, quietly locking the door behind me. I was thinking about how we parted in the parking lot—the way we embraced for the longest time because we were either too sleepy to move or simply unwilling to let go. And when I leaned in for one last kiss, she shoved her underwear in my pocket.

I rested my tired body against the front door, holding Kendall’s underwear against my chin. How I would look at her with a straight face on Monday, I wasn’t sure. I couldn’t. I wouldn’t.

Even after I washed my face and brushed my teeth, Kendall’s taste lingered in my memory. I never wanted to forget the feeling of being between her thighs or the way my name sounded when she screamed it. Sighing, I dried my face with a hand towel and trudged to my bedroom.

The second I opened my dresser drawer to hide Kendall’s panties away, I heard a quiet, squeaking cry come from my bed. “Jesus Christ,” I muttered, flipping on the light. I turned around to see Finley curled into the fetal position on my bed, half-covered by the comforter and clutching her new jellyfish. She clamped her eyes shut, bothered by the overhead light. “Finley, what the hell? You’re supposed to be up in Grandma’s room.”

She inhaled. “I was looking for you, and you weren’t here!”

I sat on the bed beside her, nudging her feet out of my way. “Fin, you knew I had to stay and clean up.”

“But not for fifteen hours!”

Her math wasn’t quite adding up. I smiled and reached for her shoulder. “Sweetie, I wasn’t gone for fifteen hours.”

She shirked away from me and sniffled. “I needed to—I needed to hug you and you were gone.”

“Does Grandma know where you are?” I rubbed her arm, awaiting some kind of explanation, but she ignored me. “Hey. What’s wrong? Why did you need me so badly? Why are you so upset?”

“Because!” She widened her eyes at me like I was impossibly stupid for not figuring this out. “I don’t like it when Grandma and Grandpa put me to bed. I get really sad. I get a cry stuck right here.” She touched the front of her throat. “I was scared that you weren’t coming home ever again.”

“Finley.” I couldn’t help but chuckle at the absurdity of it. She scowled at me. “I’m sorry, but why wouldn’t I come home? Why would you even think I—?”

I stopped and swallowed, pressing my lips together. I knew exactly why. And though she resisted, I scooped her up onto my lap and held her against my chest.

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