Christmas with the Single Dad by Whitley Cox

Author:Whitley Cox [Book 5, wide]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Whitley Cox
Published: 2023-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Zak hadn’t been expecting company for Christmas Eve, let alone a houseful.

But he loved it.

First Aurora, then his kids, then his grandparents, and now finally his not-so-single-anymore single dad friends.

He grabbed Mark and Aaron’s empty beer bottles off the coffee table and headed into the kitchen, resting his hand affectionately on Aurora’s knee as he passed her where she sat on the couch chatting animatedly with Tori and Isobel.

He couldn’t have asked for two nicer women to show up at his front door and befriend Aurora. Mark and Aaron had lucked out by landing the Jones sisters. Any man would be lucky to have either woman in his life, house or bed.

Zak pulled open the fridge to check to see if he needed to restock it from the beer fridge in the garage. There were four left. He grabbed them all, then shut the refrigerator door.

“She’s cute,” Mark said, entering the kitchen and grabbing a slice of pizza off the counter. Aaron was right behind him. “Where’d you meet her?”

“Gym,” Zak said, passing his buddy another cold one. “Went against my own rules.”

Aaron’s dark red eyebrows drew down into a tight V as he accepted his beer from Zak. “Didn’t we all?” He used his teeth to pop the cap; meanwhile, Mark used the bottle opener on the counter like a civilized human.

Aaron was a bit of an odd duck.

“I mean, Mark screwed his kid’s therapist. I started banging my nanny. And now you’re giving it to a client.” Aaron took a swig of his beer.

“Member,” Zak corrected. “And it wasn’t like I pursued her. Her car died the other night during the start of the snowstorm. She lives across town in Greenwood, and I wasn’t about to get myself caught in that shit if I didn’t have to. Offered her the spare room and then … ” He shrugged and lifted his hands up in a I don’t know gesture.

“She seems good with the kids,” Mark added. “Early to introduce her to them though.” He snorted as he tipped his beer to his lips. “I’m one to talk though, I guess. Seems like none of us are really doing this whole reentering the dating world in an orthodox way.”

“That’s because the dating scene is fucked up now,” Aaron added. “I much prefer how I did it. Didn’t have to put on airs. Iz has seen me at my fucking worst and the woman still loves me—God only knows why.”

Both Mark and Zak bobbed their heads in agreement.

Aaron was a retired Navy SEAL who now ran his own construction company. His sister had died a month after her daughter Sophie was born, leaving Aaron to raise his niece all alone. Until he found Isobel, that is. Nanny of the millennium. The woman had saved his ass—and his soul, then finally his heart. And now they were raising Sophie together. It’d taken Aaron a while to dig himself out of his well of grief though. And understandably so. If Zak lost Adam the way Aaron lost Dina, Zak would be a fucking wreck too.

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