Alec's Dream by Riley Edwards

Author:Riley Edwards
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781951567026
Publisher: Rebels Romance

21

I’d finally lost my marbles—gone completely around the bend to Nutsville.

It was Sunday and I had officially glanced out my front window thirty times. No, I wasn’t checking to see which deputy was sitting in front of my house, though there was one almost constantly there. And if not a deputy, then one of Alec’s friends. Rob had even taken a shift, sitting in his truck outside my house for hours.

Oh, no, I wasn’t worried about Josh Malone or my slimeball ex showing up. I was waiting for Alec.

Friday night after fart jokes and homework help, he left—without a fight. Other than pushing into my house then proceeding to push my buttons, he didn’t pitch a fit or argue when I told him dinner was ready and I needed to feed my kids.

He simply took Jocelyn from me, brushed his soft lips against my forehead, said goodnight to my kids, and walked out the door. He did boss me one last time, telling me to lock the door after he left, but that was it.

Saturday he showed up sans Jocelyn—which made me kind of sad—and barged into my house long enough to tell me he would be installing my storm windows, something I hadn’t gotten around to doing because it was a pain in the ass. But it needed to be done.

This caused a little tiff. I didn’t want him putting in my storm windows. A task I loathed though if I wanted the extra barrier to keep the heat in I did every fall. Mainly I didn’t want him to do this because I didn’t want to be indebted to him. And it was intrusive. And I didn’t want him to see me as any more helpless than he already did.

But I gave in. I did this because it was cold outside and getting colder and heating oil was expensive. So why not? If Alec wanted to do it and that meant I could stay in my warm house finishing up my Saturday chores whatever. It was maddening that it had taken him half the time it normally took me. But again, whatever.

When he was done, he knocked on the door, said goodbye to me and Rory and this time brushed his lips across mine. It wasn’t obscene, there was no tongue, but it had been done in front of Rory and Caleb so I tamped down the impulse to punch him in his gut. He saw this and chuckled on his way out the door.

Jerk.

Now it was Sunday afternoon, an hour later than Alec had shown yesterday, and I was stupidly checking the window.

I needed Alec Hall hanging around like I needed…nothing. I didn’t need anything from Alec and I didn’t need him coming around at all. Yet I was dying to see him. And I’d been lying to myself for the past hour convincing myself I only wanted Alec to stop by because my kids seemed to like him.

Rory, I was not surprised by, she liked everyone. She’d never met a stranger that wasn’t her best friend within ten seconds.

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