The Depth of Love_Happily Ever Menage by Serena Akeroyd

Author:Serena Akeroyd [Akeroyd, Serena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Lexi! Don’t go too far!”

Gia hollered at her daughter’s back as she went chasing down the field at the front of their house. It was owned by a farmer, but for the past year, it had been left to lie fallow, and Lexi had taken to practicing her cartwheels and handstands in there.

She was adorably terrible at both, but she kept on persevering.

In many ways, Gia foresaw Lexi being the proverbial geek. Quite capable of multiplying huge numbers in her head, well at ease with chemical formulas and computer code, but absolutely useless with peers, and gawky and awkward when it came to sports and art.

Gia hadn’t been popular, per se. With all her secrets, all the issues with her mother, she’d been intensely private and had refused to open herself to others out of fear she’d ultimately reveal the truth about her past and put her and her mother in danger.

With that shit on her shoulders, she might have been hauling the world around as well. Those secrets had certainly made high school tough.

Josh had been one of the cool kids, which made total and utter sense, all told. He was like that now. Disgustingly and effortlessly at ease in even the most difficult of scenarios that it should have been sickening to watch him work a room. Instead, it was like magic.

She had to admit to getting a kick out of watching him charm and schmooze his way into the good graces of whomever he was dealing with.

Take Luke’s appeal.

If anyone could have righted that massive wrong, it was Josh. He was the sort of guy who could find shit on his shoes, clean it off, then find a gold coin stuck to the bottom of his sole too.

Luke, she figured, had been awkward. Like how she predicted Lexi would be, even though he wasn’t her biological father.

Wouldn’t it be the ultimate in ironies if Lexi turned out to be like Luke and the babies in her belly more like Josh? Talk about throwing a spanner in the works of the whole nature versus nurture argument!

As she watched her daughter’s spindly arms go wheeling through the air, Gia grunted when said daughter landed flat on her back. She felt the air whoosh from her lungs in sympathy, but Lexi didn’t cry. She was probably winded and was definitely stiff when she stood once more, but it didn’t stop her from trying a further handful of times after she brushed herself off.

God only knew how much arnica gel Gia was going to have to slather on her back, but it was worth it. Lexi wasn’t a natural player, but she’d read in a book that girls did stuff like this and any hole in her education had to be broached—even if it was only a cartwheel.

Gia rested her arms on the wooden fence that lined this side of the boundary between her property and the farmer’s. The sun was weak as it had been of late, but when she tilted her face up, it did warm her through.

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