Never Say Never by Carolyn Faulkner

Author:Carolyn Faulkner [Faulkner, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blushing Books
Published: 2017-01-15T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Stevie was surprised at what she'd learned about him. That speech he'd made about himself was just about the most words she'd ever heard him string together at any one time, and they were all shocking, every one of them.

It got her thinking that she knew very little about him, and rather than ask him and make him uncomfortable, she resolved to do a bit of probing on her own, and she decided that her best resource was pretty close to her, although he hadn't been, for a while.

"Dad?" Stevie settled down in her favorite seat in her small house, the little bow window that looked out into her backyard where she had both regular birdfeeders and humming bird feeders up, although, in truth, the critters that benefited the most from her efforts were probably the gray squirrels, who, since she'd moved in were the size of house cats.

"Stevie, it's good to hear from you, Peanut!"

No one had called her that in years, because it was her father's nickname for her. It suffused her with warmth that he even remembered it.

She wiggled a bit in her seat and was rudely reminded that she needed to do so gingerly. She'd made the mistake of sassing back to Trent last night and not bothering to couch it as a joke because she was in a terrible mood.

Not one of her better ideas.

Normally, she was pretty even-tempered and good-natured, but once a month it was every man for himself. She couldn't even remember what he'd said to get her riled any more, or what she'd said back to him that had gotten her into so much trouble.

But she certainly could remember what he'd done about it!

She'd never expected to get up close and personal with the seat cushions of the chairs in her dining set, but she'd certainly done so last night. When she'd bought them, she'd been looking for big, comfortable, cushy seats because she and her friends loved to get together on Friday or Saturday nights and have Game Night, which sometimes lasted into the wee hours of the morning.

At the time she'd been purchasing them, however, she hadn't realized that she should have been looking for something that was both absorbent and tear-stain resistant.

They had been in the middle of dinner. She had been surprised that he had actually allowed anything to disturb his enjoyment of it, frankly.

Something had come out of her mouth that he had objected to, and he had stood up abruptly, grabbing her wrist as he did so or she would have been out of there instantly. He'd come around to where she sat, guided her to stand behind the chair her bottom had just been warming, and bent her over the back of it. It was just high enough that, as he put her hands on either side of the seat and cautioned her not to let go of it until he gave her permission to, she would either have to remain on her tiptoes or let her legs just dangle.

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