Page 41 of A Very Happy Halloween

“Unless Alfie gets involved, anyway. He has no filter.”

“He’s a good kid, just full-on.”

A real handful, Steven said, and he had no idea how to deal with that. Giving Alfie a games console and expecting him to sit quietly in the corner didn’t work the way it had with Harry, so Steven mostly left Alfie to me.

“He loves the worm farm.”

“Remind me to drop some leaves in the top later. I promised I would.”

“Okay. Do we have plans today?”

“Yeah, we’re going for a drive.”

“A drive where? To your stately home down the road? To your private theme park? To your beach house?”

“Correction: you’re going for a drive, and you can go wherever you want.”

“But I don’t have a car.”

“I got you insured on the BMW.”

“Are you kidding? That thing’s the size of a tank.”

“And it has an excellent safety rating.”

“I can’t drive that. What if I hit something?”

Eis tucked my hair behind my ear and shrugged. “Dents polish out. You have your test this week, and if you’re worried, practice will help. Your sister’s taking you?”

“We’re going out for lunch afterwards.”

“I wish I could be there to celebrate, but I have to go to London.” He pointed to his eye. “Checkup.”

“You have those regularly?”

“Every month at the moment. When I first woke up in the hospital, I thought that I’d heal up and that would be it, but now I know you never truly recover from an injury like this, and I was one of the lucky ones. I can still see. The plastic surgeons did a good job with my scars.” He smiled. “And now I have you.”

“You do.” A giggle burst out of me. “My parents are gonna shit a brick when I take you to meet them.”

“Oh?”

“A hot pirate? Come on. My mum keeps trying to set me up with clones of Steven.”

“My parents will probably give you the third degree. ‘Who are you and what plans do you have for our son’s money?’ That sort of thing.” Eis gave me a sheepish look. “I’ve brought home one too many gold-diggers. Nothing serious, and I knew exactly what they were from the start, but Mum still hated it. She’ll love you. So will Edie, who would have driven over here this weekend if I hadn’t told her to give us some space.”

I was nervous about meeting his family, but mostly, I was terrified that something would go wrong before I ever got the chance. What if Eis changed his mind about me? But I put my nerves aside as we took a shower together, which turned into me on my knees with his cock in my mouth. I’d hoped that if I distracted him enough, he might forget about the driving, but no such luck.

We started off trundling around the roads on the estate, which was even bigger than I’d previously thought, and after lunch, we ventured out into the big wide world. He made me drive all the way to Exmoor, where we took Primrose for a long walk and had lunch in a little café. On Sunday, we went to Dartmoor. The boys would have loved it, especially Alfie, but I enjoyed having Eis to myself. Well, almost to myself. Every time he moved in for a kiss, Primrose woofed and ran circles around us.

It was a good day.

A great day.

Then the boys came home, late once again. Luisa was driving, and Steven climbed out to fetch the overnight bags from the boot. At least if Luisa was there, he wouldn’t try to come in, which was a relief because Eis was upstairs, measuring the room that would become Harry’s so we could order furniture. We’d left the BMW up the road so I didn’t have to deal with an awkward conversation this evening.

Only Alfie had other ideas.

“What the…? Steven, what happened to Alfie’s face?”

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