Succeeding Love by C Hazlewood

Author:C Hazlewood [Hazlewood, C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: C HAZLEWOOD AUTHOR LLC
Published: 2024-10-06T00:00:00+00:00

I Got You

Vin

“That was fun.” Lynn twirled in a circle on the less crowded trail leading to the hotel. “Preston has good friends.”

“Preston’s a good kid,” I smiled. “You did a good job with him.”

“Eh, he’s more of a parent than me most of the time.”

I chuckled, knowing what she meant. I saw endless examples of his maturity and how he looked out for his mother in so many ways tonight. As a man that also grew up with a single mother, I was impressed.

“She’s a natural drunk. No alcohol needed,” Preston had said to me after getting off the phone with his dad. I had barely grabbed his mom in time before she fell face first into the hoard of hungry ducks. “If she’s near water, she’s going to fall in if you don’t watch her.” He then warned me about her distracted driving, and not to let her listen to her books while she drives.

I took mental notes throughout dinner about how he treated his mom. He seemed like the parent most of the time.

“He likes you, you know,” Lynn bumped her shoulder against mine, looking all cute and smug.

I wrapped an arm around her shoulders, feeling pretty smug myself. “What’s not to like?”

“I don’t know. I have no complaints yet,” she giggled.

“That’s good to hear. Please let me know if you ever do.” I kissed the top of her head.

Dinner was fun, even with that bump-on-a-log assistant coach glaring at me the entire time. Lynn was the life of the party, getting most of the kids to play some type of charades game on her phone while we waited for the food. Even the staff couldn’t be jerks to her. It was in their job description, but not one of them was a dick to my girl after the drinks came.

“It’s so pretty out here at night,” she said, looking up at all the hanging lights. “There’s not as many people as earlier, either.”

“They gather at the bars and clubs the later it gets. We’re getting far from the mall, too.”

“You know,” she twisted back to stare up at me, grabbing my hand on her shoulder with both of hers. “I haven’t been to a bar or a club in a long time.”

“Me neither. Well, maybe bars, but only the restaurant ones. I’m too old for that shit.” I used to have to pull my soldiers piss drunk out of bars in the middle of the night when they would start causing trouble. It turned me off to the whole idea of partying.

“You’re not old,” she droned.

“I felt old around all those kids tonight.”

“Really? They all seemed to think you were the coolest thing ever. They couldn’t get enough of your stories about their coach and the army.”

I chuckled softly. “Only old men tell stories like that to the younger generations.”

“Nuh uh. You’re too sexy to be old,” she said, then quickly covered her mouth with her hands.

“You think I’m sexy?” I teased her.

She sighed, dropping one hand and grabbing my hand with her other.

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