The Rules of Dating by Penelope Ward & Vi Keeland

Author:Penelope Ward & Vi Keeland [Ward , Penelope]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: C. Scott Publishing Corp.
Published: 2022-09-16T18:30:00+00:00

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I barely slept all night.

Billie had gone home after all. She’d said she wanted to give me time to think, and I didn’t fight her too hard on it. I wouldn’t have been good company anyway. Talk about a quick turn of events. One minute, I’m the happiest I can remember being, maybe ever—my girl’s going to stay over, Saylor and Billie clearly adore each other, and the woman I’d thought might run away when she saw what my day-to-day life was really like wound up running to me because of it. And then there was the knock.

The fucking knock.

With the same woman standing on the other side of the door who had turned my life upside down four years ago. And she was trying to do it a second time.

Maya.

Isn’t there a limit on how many times you can sucker punch a guy you’ve spent the sum total of less than eight hours of your life with? If not, there goddamned should be.

“Daddy…” Saylor padded into the kitchen where I was drinking coffee and held up a pair of my socks. “Are you being silly?”

My brows dipped together. “Why do you have my socks, honey?”

She grinned. “Because you left them for me to put on when you laid my outfit on the bed.” She pulled something from behind her back. “And these!”

I blinked a few times. Had I really done that? Left my underwear and socks for her to wear instead of her own? I guess I had.

Saylor tilted her head. “Are you sad, Daddy?”

Shoot. “No, honey, I’m not sad. Just a little tired, that’s all.” The last thing I wanted was to worry my little girl before I dropped her at school. So I scooped her off the floor as I stood and put on my best fake smile. She giggled.

“I was wondering why my underwear were so tight that they were going up my butt. I guess it’s because they’re yours…”

Saylor’s eyes widened with a sparkle. “You’re not really wearing my underwear are you, Daddy?”

“I don’t know. Do you have pink ones with little purple butterflies on them?”

She nodded fast.

“Hmm. Okay, well, good thing then. Because the ones I have on are black and don’t have any butterflies on them.” I rubbed my nose with hers. “You don’t really think I can fit into your undies, do you?”

She giggled again, and it felt like a salve had been rubbed on the gaping wound in my heart. I carried her into her room and opened her dresser drawer, pulling out a pair of her underwear and socks. “Here you go. But you better get a move on. We only have ten minutes before we have to leave for preschool.”

“Okay, Daddy.”

A half hour later, I rounded the corner back onto my block after dropping Saylor at school. I felt angry and bitter, but also a whole lot scared as I opened the door to the diner and looked around.

Maya held up her hand and smiled and waved like we were besties having a friendly breakfast.

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