The Single Mom and the Orc: Sweet Monster Treats by Honey Phillips

Author:Honey Phillips [Phillips, Honey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

Trogar’s first waking thought was of Pippa. He’d dreamed about her all night—nothing specific, just little fragments of images—but they’d left him impossibly hard and aching. He wasn’t exactly a virgin, but his experience was minimal at best and he’d certainly never experienced anything as erotic as their encounter the previous night. He wanted to repeat it again immediately—and that thought set alarm bells ringing in his head. He refused to become the same type of possessive monster his stepfather had been.

He stomped into the bathroom to shower, sternly ignoring his aching cock. It would just have to deal with his abstinence. He was dressed and halfway down the stairs before he realized that for the first time in years he had forgotten to make his bed. Scowling, he returned to the bedroom and made the bed, doing his best not to remember helping Pippa with hers. For good measure, he also dusted the already dust-free shelves and swept the pristine floor.

The resulting order did not satisfy him as much as it usually did, and he was still feeling unsettled when he started to cook breakfast.

“You’re not your stepfather, Trogar.”

Flora’s voice from behind him almost made him drop his tenth egg into the pan without cracking it.

“Of course not.” He turned around to scowl at his grandmother. “He was an abusive bastard.”

She nodded, looking surprisingly serious. Her pale blue tracksuit was remarkably subdued, giving her an unusually innocent appearance, but her eyes were as perceptive as ever.

“It doesn’t have to be like that,” she added.

“What doesn’t?”

He put the broken eggshells carefully into the waste disposal unit and wiped down the counter before flipping the eggs.

“Your relationship with Pippa.”

“I don’t have a relationship with Pippa,” he said automatically, but she just snorted.

“If you say so. Just don’t let fear stop you from moving ahead.”

“I’m not afraid—”

But he was too late. She had already gone.

He gloomily consumed his eggs and a stack of toast, then scrubbed the kitchen and went to his desk. The technical intricacies of his latest set of mechanical drawings didn’t distract him, and even when he switched to a delicate pen and ink illustration he couldn’t lose himself in the process the way he normally did. Maybe he should just check and make sure Pippa didn’t need any more supplies for Daisy…

He was halfway across the yard before he even finished the thought.

I’m just being neighborly, he assured himself, but when he emerged on the other side of the hedge, her car was gone.

An unreasonable surge of panic filled him before he remembered that she had mentioned going to work at the Inn. Was that old car of hers reliable? Perhaps he should just check and make sure she’d made it safely… No.

This time he managed to rein in his instincts, but the fact that they had flared so quickly only worried him more as he stomped back to his house. His curiously empty house. The silence that he usually found so soothing felt desolate instead.

He spent

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