Bond (Inescapable Book 4) by A.M. Rose

Author:A.M. Rose [Rose, A.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter thirteen

Mateo

“Do they look good, Daddy?” Piper fluffed up her wings, groomed and slicked to perfection for her very first competition.

She was wearing a pair of tight bubble gum-pink bicycle shorts and a baby-blue tank top. He’d pulled her hair into two braids, securing them with pink and blue elastics. She looked like a tiny ball of spun sugar, and Mateo couldn’t help but smile when he looked at her.

She was excited, vibrating in place as she waited for the competition to start, and Mateo was so proud of how well she was handling the stress and the uncertainty of her first race. Probably because she had no idea what it actually was, but…Mateo would take it.

“They look perfect,” Mateo told her as he knelt down in front of her and looked her in the eye. “Now…do you remember what we talked about?”

“Daddyyyy…” She stomped her foot, rolling her eyes like a petulant teenager and not his adorable five-year-old.

“I know, Pip,” he said. “But this is very important. I’m sure Fire had the exact same conversation with his daddy when he started racing.”

“He did?” she asked.

Mateo nodded. “Of course.”

“I remember!” she said with a firm nod as she lifted up her fingers one by one. “I have to be nice to everyone who is racing. I can’t say mean things if someone does something wrong. I need to clap for everyone else racing. And if I don’t win, I have to say congratulations to whoever does win…”

She frowned and tilted her head a little bit before looking back at him.

“But I will win, right, Daddy?” she asked, and he ran a soft hand down her cheek.

“I will cheer for you very hard anyway,” he said. “And I really want you to do your best. If you win, it will be awesome. But if not, there is always your next race. Just remember to have fun, okay?”

She beamed at him and threw her arms around his neck. “Okay, Daddy!”

He held her tight, heart skipping with how much he loved her. He lived for her. He hoped she knew that.

He settled into a seat on the stands, separated a little bit from the other parents but still in a good spot to see the makeshift racing track clearly. Piper rushed to join the other kids, turning back around to wave at him just as the lights dimmed and soft music started playing as someone walked to the middle of the gym and stepped up on a small stage set there.

“Welcome, parents, family, friends, and casual spectators to our very first Children’s Rec Center Race,” Rio said, holding a microphone in his hand.

The gym wasn’t that big, and they could all hear him perfectly fine, but Mateo had realized a while back that Rio liked a spectacle. So booming into a bedazzled microphone seemed on brand. He was half expecting a smoke machine and confetti, but he figured it would make things unfit for a racing event.

He chuckled at the idea of a

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