Pretend Daddy by Lulu Pratt

Author:Lulu Pratt [Pratt, Lulu]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lulu Pratt
Published: 2019-07-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

JAKE

ASHLEY’S APARTMENT was small but neat. I was impressed by how well she’d organized and decorated everything as I sat in her small kitchen nook.

Although she was young, Ashley had managed to create a home for herself. The flowers I’d sent her were in a glass vase in front of the window and starting to fade. A small shelf on the kitchen counter displayed a collection of cookbooks, with a bookshelf in the living room housing an even larger collection.

Her living room was small, but had all the essentials – what looked to be a comfortable couch, a larger-than-necessary TV and a small coffee table. Sitting on top of the rectangular table was a stack of girly magazines I imagined to be filled with quizzes to decide where you should go for vacation next year or whether your boyfriend loved you yet.

It was something I’d been thinking about with Ashley – if she was serious about our relationship and understood how I felt. I didn’t want to play the childish games I’d come to associate with dating. My life now couldn’t afford such murky lines my friends enjoyed, leading women on when they didn’t see a future.

She was special to me, and even more importantly, she was special to Jasper. My life wasn’t just about me anymore. Overnight I had become a package deal, and Ashley was an asset to us both. Never one to mince my words, I planned to lock things down and make it clear what I wanted.

“Sorry, my place is like a matchbox compared to yours,” Ashley joked.

“I like your place,” I said, truthfully. I’d sometimes wondered where she lived. By her reaction the first time she saw my house, I assumed she had grown up like me. It was one of the reasons I wanted to take her by my mother’s house, so she could see that we had more in common than she may have suspected.

I was still riding on a high that my mother was so impressed by her. It was the way Jasper took to her, and how well she cared for him. My mom had been embarrassed to have to call for help, because caring for children had always been her specialty.

If there was one way for a woman to impress my mom, it was with her nurturing skills. Honestly, I couldn’t have planned it better. I wanted her to like Ashley, and seeing the two of them hit it off was more than I’d expected on the first introduction.

“Your mom is nice,” she smiled, reading my thoughts.

She’d moved about her kitchen quickly as she opened one cabinet after another. First, she took a bag of popcorn from a box, tearing through the plastic before placing the bag in the microwave. Next, she reached for a large red bowl before setting it on the counter.

“She likes you,” I said, beginning to smirk when she blushed.

“You think so?”

“I know so,” I assured her as she reached into a higher cabinet for two wine glasses.

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