The Cad and the Co-Ed by Penny Reid & Penny Reid

Author:Penny Reid & Penny Reid
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cipher-Naught

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@ECassChoosesPikachu: Patrick’s new favorite joke: What do you call an alligator in a vest? An “investigator” HA!

@JoseyInHeels to @ECassChoosesPikachu: The kid needs better jokes

@SeanCassinova to @ECassChoosesPikachu: MY NEPHEW IS BRILLIANT!

*Eilish*

“Tell me again how this happened?”

My eyes flickered to my cousin’s, then back to my image in the mirror. I leaned forward to apply my mascara.

“As I’ve told you, William said he’d been wanting to ask me out for a while. We went to lunch on Wednesday and, once you agreed to babysit, I told him I could go out tonight.”

“Moore . . .” Sean said, as though to confirm. Again. “The American?”

“Yes.”

“Not, say, Daly or Malloy?”

I glared at Sean. “No.”

“Hrumph.”

I switched to the other eye. “We’re just friends.”

“I don’t understand how this happened,” he said mostly to himself. “Moore is a saint.”

My mouth curved into a smirk before I could stop it, thinking back to William’s denial of sainthood status.

After lunch, when we’d returned to work, I’d called Sean and asked if he could watch Patrick Friday night. He readily agreed. I also asked Sean if he would be available during the day Saturday so Bryan could spend time with Patrick.

I’d planned to use the time on Saturday to run some errands, catch up on bills and such while the boys spent time together out and about. Patrick needed time with Bryan, they needed to form a foundation for their relationship, but that didn’t mean I needed to be present. In fact, I thought it might be better if I wasn’t around when Bryan and Patrick visited. That way Patrick wouldn’t get used to the three of us being together.

Bryan had been cordial all week. Polite. Solicitous. And he hadn’t brought up our locker room encounter. I didn’t know if I was grateful or disappointed.

Presently, in my bathroom, Sean motioned to me accusingly with an outstretched hand, then twisted his cufflinks in an anxious gesture. “You look amazing.” Even when he babysat the man wore cufflinks.

Glancing down at myself, I quickly inspected the jade green dress I hadn’t worn in six years. “Thank you?”

“That’s not the kind of dress a woman wears to go out with a friend.”

“Yes, it is,” I said on a sigh, closing and dropping the mascara in my makeup bag.

“It’s not. It’s the kind of dress a woman wears when she wants to be noticed.”

“Or maybe it’s the kind of dress a woman wears when she hasn’t gone out to a proper dinner in years and she wants to feel pretty and special instead of like a mother. You know, covered in Popsicle goo and four-year-old boy germs.”

“Fine. Or that,” he conceded quietly, tilting his head to the side in a considering manner. “Have you really not gone out to dinner in years?”

Deciding that dinner with Trevor at the mall didn’t count, I smiled warmly at Sean’s reflection. “Yes. But, honestly, I haven’t minded. I know how lucky I am to have Patrick, and I wouldn’t trade my daily Popsicle goo and little-boy germs for fancy dinners in a million years.

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