Page 238 of Waiting Game

Dionne: For sure! If you don’t mind about the salary, then I might stay at home for a little while. My mom’s been sick and could use some help around the house.

Beanpole: You’re stuck with us, ain’t she, Larry?

Larry: She is, yep. You hurt, Mia? I’m pretty sure Chuck is rolling in his grave at what went down last night

Mia: No, I’m not hurt but I’ve been better, Larry, and I’m getting there.

Mia: I’ll keep you guys in the loop, okay? But until then, I’ll deposit the wages into your accounts.

Mia: Thank you for giving a shit, guys

Larry: Girl, of course

Jarvis: For sure!!!!

Dionne: How could you even think we didn’t?

Beanpole: I’m kinda mad at you for not realizing that we’re a family of misfits!!

Mia: You make me feel a lot less alone and that’s something I can’t thank you enough for <3

Mia: Speak soon xoxo

CHAPTER 43

COLE

willow - Taylor Swift

All’s quietwhen I make it into my living room.

Oddly quiet.

I’ve gotten used to the chaos of multiple cats infuriated over their territory changing.

Curtis and Cubert have even joined forces to cause mass destruction of the interior decorating kind—it’s fortunate that things arethingsto me.

Well, aside from baseball cards and my trophies.

If they somehow managed to wreak havoc in my trophy room, I’d probably need Liam’s shrink more than he does.

I peep my head around the corner, wondering if Mia headed out when I was in the shower. The last I heard was her trying to get off the phone with Garry, Walt, Robbie, and Biff—Chuck’s cronies—who were checking up on her en masse while trying to score free tickets to my next game.

Easy to see why they were pals with Chuck.

I don’t find her in the living room, but I learn she didn’t go out when I stride toward my bedroom.

Where she’s reading.

A gleam appears in my eyes when I see it’s one of my favorite Omegaverse titles—I hand-bound that goddamn book for her and she rolled her eyes at it.

But she’s not rolling her eyes anymore.

Oh, no.

Suddenly, the hours of work on that fucking book are worthwhile because my beautiful dirty girl has her hand between her thighs.

Soft sounds of pleasure escape her as she reads one of the many, many sex scenes in the book and I take a step back.

---