Riding Hard by J. L. Sheppard

Author:J. L. Sheppard [Sheppard, J. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: erotic Romance
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press, Inc.
Published: 2019-08-18T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

His phone rang. Dodge plucked it out of his pocket, read Lex’s name on the screen, and smiled.

He loved she was so predictable. He loved it more it didn’t bore the shit out of him. He told her he’d work morning and be off by lunch. Noon on the dot, he bet money she’d called to find out what he wanted for lunch. She did that shit all the time. During the week, she called him at lunch and asked what he wanted for dinner. Every other day, he had to tell her he’d make dinner; otherwise, she’d cook for him and Cul and make dessert too. He didn’t watch it, he’d gain fifty pounds by year end. When they ate at her place, she set the table with fancy-assed cloth napkins and a matching tablecloth like they were special or some shit. It was the little things she did she probably thought he didn’t notice. She pitched in without him asking to, sometimes even after he told her not to. Case in point, he had to work and she insisted on watching Cul.

They hadn’t been together long, only a few weeks, but she made getting up in the morning easier with just knowing he’d see her. It wasn’t about him knowing two to three times a week he didn’t have to cook or about knowing his house would be a little less of a mess in between when he paid a cleaning service. It was that even if he was cooking, she’d be right by him telling him about her day, her students, the other teachers, making him laugh and making him feel carefree. Doing all that, she also made him feel like he wasn’t alone raising a kid on his own, and it didn’t hurt that she was beautiful, smart, good to him, and especially, good to his boy.

He had his brothers, the club, but not one of them knew what it was like to be a single father to a three-year-old, not one of them was raising a kid on his own. His brothers helped him always, but they weren’t Lex, a woman, unbelievable in bed, always wanting him, always smiling, talking to him about nothing and everything, making him laugh, and reading to his boy.

He was a man who hadn’t known much joy in his life. Thinking about it then, it was the first time he felt truly happy, and a big part of that was that his boy was happy too. So with a smile on his face, he answered his phone.

“I’m down for whatever my woman and son want to eat, babe.”

She didn’t respond, but in the background, a spine-curling shrill rang out.

“Let me talk to him, now!”

Dodge couldn’t forget that voice. He tried and failed. Hearing it, it still didn’t sink in because he couldn’t be hearing that voice when he and his boy just found their happy.

“I need you to come to the mall.”

Lex, but not the Lex he knew, his Lex.

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