Red Hot (Strong Family Novels) by Niobia Bryant

Author:Niobia Bryant [Bryant, Niobia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780758265364
Amazon: 0758265360
Publisher: Dafina
Published: 2012-09-04T04:00:00+00:00

In the days that followed, Quinton couldn’t deny that his daughter was excited and happy about her pajama party. Now, instead of talking about Kaitlyn all the time, she filled his brain with every one of her friends who promised they were coming. Quint was happy to see her happy. Lei meant everything to him.

And that was why he kept peeling off the cash to give Kaitlyn as she put her all into making sure Lei’s party was “the perfect sleepover jammy jam”—whatever that meant.

That morning, as soon as Lei left for school, he used a dolly and a lot of sweat and muscle to take her armoire into her bedroom. He positioned it in the empty corner where her dollhouse once sat. He stood back to watch his handiwork.

It was large enough with plenty of shelves to hold whatever she wanted, but not too big to overpower the room. He even relented and followed his initial idea to install a lock and skeleton key. Just a little privacy for a new teenager.

My little girl is growing up, Quinton thought, remembering the day she was born and how proud he felt as he held her for the first time. How much he wanted to be a better father for her than his had been for him.

Her first steps.

The first time she called him “Dada.”

Her first day of school.

Even the appearance of her menstrual cycle last year.

He shook his head at how much that shook him, but they got through it together—and a trip to her pediatrician’s office for a nice chat with the nurse about her new feminine responsibilities helped a lot.

Quint picked up the brightly wrapped gifts from where he set them on her bed earlier and slid them inside the armoire and locked it, leaving the key in the lock. Her birthday wasn’t until that Sunday; but with her sleepover that Friday night, he decided to give her most of her gifts early.

Glancing at the time on his cell phone, Quint left her room and then their apartment. He climbed into his Ford pickup and reversed out of his parking spot. He hit his brakes at the sight of Kaitlyn already up and tying dozens of pink and silver Happy Birthday balloons to the railings.

He fixed his eyes on her face and found it squinted in intense concentration to be cute as hell. The friends Lei invited were catching the school bus to the complex with her; and Kaitlyn obviously wanted everything ready for them. He couldn’t deny that she really seemed to like Lei and that earned her his respect.

He put his truck in park and climbed out of the vehicle. “You need any help right now?” he called up to her.

Kaitlyn looked up and then down at him. She smiled brightly.

The sight of it warmed him more than the summer sun could.

“I might move my sofa into the guest bedroom to make more room for the sleeping bags,” she said.

“I gotta make a quick run and I’ll come right up,” he told her.

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