where it counts, right in the man metal, his vehicles.
He stops at the stop sign and looks over.
“If they’re asleep, I’m gonna need a little something from you.” My knees clench together automatically and he laughs. “How fucking-”
“Nope. Stop, it’s in the past.” I hold up my hand to shut him up.
“Your pussy is still sore, it’s the present. It was worth it huh?”
“Seriously do you pat yourself on the back every time you batter a bush?”
“No babe,” he stops and looks over at me.
“I hate that ‘babe’ shit.”
“I know, tell me why.”
I shake my head no. “It’s in the past. Leave it there, I did.”
“Gotcha,” he nods. “Moving forward, communication is key to making this work. Something pisses me off, I’ll let you know. You do the same.”
“As if I wouldn’t.”
“Right,” he nods.
CHAPTER EIGHT
Uncomfortable Overnight
RICCO
We pull up to her place and I’m not feeling real good about this. She thinks she can handle it. She can, but not yet. I put the car in park and turn it off. She starts to get out and I grab her wrist.
“I wanna thank you for this. I have no problem taking my kid back there. Someone thinks they wanna start shit I can end it real quick.”
“It’s seriously no problem and your little girl, she doesn’t need two parents behind bars.”
“She has one parent.”
“Exactly tough guy, now let’s go.”
I don’t let go. “They’re asleep. You need to eat mattress.”
“Excuse?”
“You come hard and loud Kat.”
“For fuck’s sake.” She pulls her hand away and opens the door. As she gets out she gives me the finger. “Eat this.”
Gladly , I think to myself.
I get out of the car watching her walk toward the house.
First time I saw her it was from behind. Wanted to tap it then, then I learned she was not just some hot piece of ass stopping by to get some art done. She was a grade A fucking bitch who I’d be working with.
I didn’t pussyfoot around her like the new guys did, neither did the Steel brothers, we gave her shit and she gave it back. I admittedly was a little softer on her, and yes it had everything to do with wanting to bang her. Then it was the frown. I hated seeing people wallow in their own misery. Move on, or drown in shit.
She has a tiny version of a bubble butt. It’s a little peach on sticks.
“You gonna stand there all day or come inside?”
And yes, her attitude got my blood flowing too.
I walk in and Kat is looking at the couch, two little ladies are asleep in front of the TV. The movie, Minions, always Minions.
I walk up behind her and whisper, “Where do you want us?”
She looks over her shoulder and up at me. She looks at my lips and it makes me smile. She rolls her eyes and points to her bedroom then walks toward it.
I follow her in and she grabs a bag off the bed, opens it and pulls out a plastic mattress cover.
“You bought a piss sheet?” I whisper and laugh.
“Just in case,” she mumbles opening the plastic bag.
“In case what? My kid takes over your house?”
She rolls her eyes. “No, in case you needed Darby to watch her once in a while. In case she fell asleep, and in case she pisses the bed again.”
“I have no idea why the hell that happened. She doesn’t normally do that.”
“She’s just suffered a loss. It happens.”
She and I put the piss sheet on the bed. Next she grabs a sheet with unicorns. Fucking blows my mind. Kat and unicorns. Who’d have thought.
Finally she moves around the bed tucking the flat sheet under the mattress making her way around to where I’m doing the same.
When she’s next to me, I reach out and push her hair behind her ear and she looks up at me. “Touch me again and I will kick your ass.”
It’s lighthearted, it’s Kat at home.
I sit on the edge of the bed. “Did you have nightmares?”
“What?”
“When you were little, did you have nightmares?”
She shrugs. “Don’t remember.”
I stand up as she starts
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