Faking It With My Ex's Brother: Single Dad Enemies To Lovers Romance by A.L. DeRose

Author:A.L. DeRose [DeRose, A.L. & DeRose, A.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: My Nook Publishing
Published: 2024-01-11T00:00:00+00:00

Aiden

Isat out on the balcony off my bedroom that was nestled in the trees, knowing that anybody could see me if they were close by and not really giving a shit.

I was tired of hiding, and I needed the fresh air badly. If I went back into that house, I would just make a beeline towards Katie, and take her again and again. Although that had been a lot of fun, I felt like I was drunk off of her and at risk of making some seriously deranged choices. Namely, declaring that I was never going to let her go, she was mine now, the whole fake dating charade was over and that I would just pay for her practice and that would be that.

Except that, I knew Katherine well enough to know that she would have a fit at all of that.

Having her here was… Magical at the risk of sounding cheesy.

I loved arguing with her, and it always turned into more and after that, it would turn into some oddly deep conversations, although I don’t know what I was expecting from a therapist. Despite her credentials, she could have those deep conversations with me without making me feel like I was her patient. It was through those conversations that I’d managed to glean a couple of things from her which wasn’t easy, Katherine was very much a closed book.

When I had expressed some worry about what the melee of this whole situation could do to Maisie in the future. I’d shared the worry that she would think I was a shitty dad when she was older because I had inadvertently let all of this happen.

Katherine had gotten a little hot under the collar and assured me that Maisie would know that I was a parent who protected her at all costs and that not all kids had the luxury of knowing that. There was sadness in her eyes when she said that, and I wondered what life was like for her growing up.

Maisie had been the one to let me in on the fact that Katherine hadn’t had any toys when she was growing up and I had seen for myself how she lit up like a little kid when we were in the toy store and how she generally loved getting on the floor to play with Maisie. There was a part of me that thought she was trying to recapture some youth that she never got to experience. It was a special sort of parents that wouldn’t let their kid be a kid and I wanted to ask more questions, but anytime we got close to the subject she just shut me down.

I wondered how much of this played into her putting off getting her own practice. I knew Katherine well enough to know that she was shrewd enough to have been able to cobble enough together to put that practice out into the world years ago, but something had been holding her back. I wondered if it had anything to do with her parents.

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