Page 2 of Dirty Daddy

“Tess?”

I smirk. “Priest.” He growls, causing me to chuckle.

“My dad and brothers will put you up until the roads open again.” His gruff tone suggests he isn’t exactly thrilled about this idea either.

“I’d rather sleep in my car,” I mutter.

“If you want to freeze to death, then be my guest, but I can assure you, they already know you’re there.” My eyes widen at his declaration.

“How?” I screech.

“They live in the middle of nowhere, Tess. They have sensors and cameras set up around the property so they can track prey to hunt. The roads should be open tomorrow. Spend the night there and we should be able to make it up in the morning.” Van isn’t one for chit-chat so the asshole ends the call without allowing me to speak to Peyton. Resigned to my fate, I pull up my message thread with the guy I’ve been speaking to online.We’ve been texting for a couple months and FaceTime every day. He’s older than me and a single father. I never thought I would be into the wholedaddy kinkbut here we are. We had planned to meet up over winter break but it seems we both have other plans. Clayton has family visiting and I promised Peyton I would accompany her and the guys here, so we had to reschedule.

Me

So, I have shit cell service and if you don’t hear from me in the next twenty-four hours send help! I’m spending the night alone with my friend’s future in-laws and I can already picture them being creeps and unsocialized with the opposite sex.

I drop him a pin on my location and wait for his reply. I wait five minutes but still the three dots never appear. My attention is snagged when I see a light flick on in the cabin up ahead. When the front door opens I sigh, knowing I have no other choice but to bite the bullet and drive the remainder of the way. I drop my phone onto my lap and put the car in drive. Awkward doesn’t even begin to describe how I feel about this situation. I’m not a people person and I tend to stick to myself.

I refuse to look at the person on the porch as I park my car, then exhale a long breath as I kill the engine. I take a single moment to myself before I garner the courage to step out. The instant I do the frigid air slaps against my cheeks. I cross my arms over my chest and slowly lift my head to finally look at the person.

What in the seven fucking hells!

“Tess?” His gravelly tone washes over me. The sight of him standing there in the flesh, wearing a pair of dark wash jeans and a flannel, long-sleeve shirt giving off that classic lumberjack vibe, sends tingles down my spine. The beard I spent many nights envisioning running my fingers through is right there. His striking blue eyes are wide with surprise, his black hair with tinges of gray slicked back.

My mouth pops open as my shock slowly ebbs away. I open my mouth to say something, but all that escapes is an ear-piercing scream. He covers his ears with his hands as the front door swings open and two guys come to stand beside him with varying looks of worry. My head begins to spin and my vision turns blurry as my world starts spinning on its axis.

“Shit, she’s gonna pass out,” I hear someone growl a second before everything turns black.

TWO

CLAYTON

Kaiden rushes down the stairs just in time to catch her before she hits the snow as she blacks out. I still can’t wrap my fucking head around her beinghere!

Tyler whistles through his teeth, snapping me out of my downward spiral. “She is fucking gorgeous.” Jealousy surges inside me. I grind my teeth and force my face to remain stoic and not bite my son’s head off for finding a girl his own age attractive.

“Carry her in,” I say to Kaiden. “Tyler, grab her bags,” I bark as I turn and stalk inside the house, trying to wrap my head around what the hell I’m going to do. I was never meant to message her when we matched on that stupid app, she was the one who reached out to me first. I planned to ignore her message and forget all about it, but I couldn’t resist and we’ve been talking for months. We were supposed to meet for the first time over the winter break but then Van called and told me he was bringing his girl home. I haven’t seen my son for years, so of course I pushed our plans to accommodate him, his friends and their girlfriend. I just didn’t expect Tess to show up here.

“Where do I put her?” Kaiden asks. I whirl around and narrow my eyes.

“She isn’t a fucking toy, Kaiden, she’s a person,” I snap.

He just shrugs, Tess clutched against his chest. The sight of her wrapped in his arms has me clenching my fists at my sides. We’ve not only FaceTimed every night, we’ve seen parts of each other that I wish I wasn’t picturing right fucking now.

“Put her on the couch,” Tyler says as he kicks the door closed behind himself, both her bags clutched in his hands. Kaiden obeys without complaint and lays her down gently. Needing something to do to distract myself, I move around the sofa and toss another log into the fire. “Who the hell is she?”

I face both my sons and find their gazes laser focused on Tess, who is laying on the sofa looking like a sleeping angel. Those luscious plump lips that I have spent many nights picturing wrapped around my cock are slightly parted. Her long lashes are resting on her cheeks, her hair fanned out around her like a halo of darkness. The phone camera from our FaceTimes didn’t do her justice, she is more beautiful in person.

“I’m guessing she is the best friend of your brother’s girlfriend,” I lie.

“I’m dying to see what Van’s girl looks like,” Kaiden adds with a devilish smirk. Tyler turns to him and raises his brows in mischief. I sigh and scrub a hand down my face.

“Van will cave both your heads in if you so much as look at his girl wrong. You know he’s a territorial bastard,” I say. Both of them laugh. I bite back my growl, knowing that this is typical for the three of them. Kaiden is the oldest out of the three, Van is the middle child and Tyler is the youngest.

“Oh, I plan on rubbing baby bro the wrong way,” Kaiden says, making Tyler laugh. I shake my head at my sons. This break is not going how I planned and I can only imagine what Van is going to say when he finds out I’ve been having phone sex with his girlfriend's best friend!

“Hmmm.” I snap my gaze to Tess as she begins to stir on the couch, both the boys remaining silent as they focus on the raven-haired minx who has plagued my thoughts every night for months. Tess may look like a fallen angel, but the girl has the mouth of the devil and enough filthy wants to rival a BDSM club. The things she has begged me to do to her when we finally meet would have a priest blushing. Her eyes slowly blink open. My breath hitches and lodges in my throat as I wait. She keeps her gaze focused on the ceiling as her body stiffens. I watch with rapt attention as her chest slowly rises but doesn’t fall for a couple of seconds.

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