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“Mom, I’m hungry,” Landon says with his hair a complete rat's nest. His light curls pointing every which way, still half asleep. He walks over and hugs Camden around the waist. Camden reaches down and picks him up, sitting him on his lap.
Both Lexi and I chuckle at little one. He’s so adorable half asleep with a bed head of hair with his eyes half open.
“Well, I guess that’s my queue to make some breakfast, huh?” I say stepping down from the seat at the counter. My bare feet hitting the cold tiles of the kitchen as I pad over to the stove and begin rummaging in the cabinet for what I need to cook something.
Lexi looks at her watch and laughs. “Don’t you mean lunch?”
I grab a pan from the lower cabinet, and sit it on the stove and then walk to the refrigerator. I open it and look over the door to where she’s standing. “Potato, Tomato,” I say, and we all burst out laughing at our little inside joke as I turn, sitting the ingredients I pulled out of the refrigerator to make everyone something to eat.
CHAPTER 8
Lexi
Wednesday night
“Darian, please don’t stay up too late. You have school tomorrow,” I hear Shayna say as a door clicks closed and she walks into the kitchen where I’m putting dishes from tonight's dinner into the dishwasher. Cam has been back on the road for three days now and things between Shayna and I have been building. Typically, even before I left Jason, Shayna and I would flirt playfully. However, now it seems more intense… more real… actually serious.
Glancing over my shoulder with a smile, I see her walking through the doorway carrying a few more glasses and plates. I look at them in her hand and roll my eyes playfully, knowing they came from Darian’s room. The kid is always eating something, and since he lives on that game, the dishes accumulate in there.
Shayna looks a little sheepish as she walks them over. “Sorry, babes. I found them when I went into Darian’s room,” she says sitting them on the counter, and I chuckle.
“It’s okay. I got it,” I say, rinsing off a different plate placing it in the dishwasher. After I stand back up, she bumps my shoulder playfully and smiles at me, still standing there. I look at her as I drop Darian’s dishes in the sink and smile back.
“What is it?” I ask. She shakes her head and kisses my cheek, which makes me flush a bit.
“I’m just glad you’re here. That’s all,” she says and lays her head against my shoulder wrapping her arms around my waist. “And… I’ve missed having you here.”
I look down at the crown of her head. Leaning down, I give her a little kiss. I stay there smelling her strawberry scented shampoo. Fuck, what I wouldn’t do for this woman. I’ve had feelings for her for so long, but it’s so hard dealing with the storm inside my heart and stomach whenever I’m around her. No one would understand the maelstrom that occurs when you’re in a relationship with one person trying to make it work, but still have such deep feelings for someone else. Your best friend no less. Your best friend that’s been married for 20 years.
Finally, looking forward I continue to rinse off the dishes, placing them away. She stands up and moves away to walk behind me. I already miss her warmness and comfort. I release a silent sigh. She walks behind me going to the cabinet with the wine glasses.
Smack
I jump all over when her hand comes in contact with my ass and I give a little yelp. She laughs as she keeps moving. “Shay!” I say her name with a light laugh. “You know payback is a bitch, right.”
She shrugs her shoulders, and gives me a devious smile. Leaning up on her tippy toes, she opens the cabinet, reaching for two glasses. Her juicy ass is poked out, almost like an invitation for me. My eyes immediately drop to how her shorts have ridden up and the bottom of her cheeks are peeking out fromunderneath the frayed jean material. What I fucking wouldn’t give to run my fingers over the curves of her ass, down between her thighs to feel the warmth that’s there. I bite my bottom lip and my hands have stilled as I keep my eyes on how her perfect ass sticking out makes the curve of her spine so beautiful and tempting. The indents of her waist are showing from how her little crop top has ridden up while she reaches toward the top shelf. Her tiny 5’4” self is stretching to try and reach where she has the glasses. A small voice inside my head is telling me she’s doing this on purpose to see if I will act on my impulses. She’s trying to tempt me more than usual.
My mouth is watering, my core pulsing while my heart rate skyrockets. I bite my bottom lip again hard. If I bite any harder, I will pierce the skin and draw blood. She grunts trying to reach it. She drops to the flats of her feet and looks over her shoulder at me with her eyes hooded. Slowly mine rises from her ass to meet her eyes, and she’s smiling deviously. She fucking knows what she’s doing.
“Lex, can you help me… please,” she purrs in such a seductive voice I can’t at all deny her. I put the plate I had been rinsing into the dishwasher and grab a towel drying my hands off. My glance keeps trailing her sexy as hell body as I move closer. She watches me as I slowly move to where she is like a predator stalking its prey. As I do, I think she’s going to move out of my way but she doesn’t. She stands right where I need to be in order to grab the wine glasses for her.
Moving behind her, I press my body to hers reaching over her and I feel her press her ass against my upper thighs as I press her body into the counter. I take a deep inhale of breath trying to steady myself. The will power it’s taking me to not just do all the wicked things my head has conjured over the last several years. I may have been with Jason but whenever I came here to spendtime with my best friend, my imagination of us two together went crazy.
I grab the two wine glasses but when she reaches for them I hold them up away from her and drop my lips to her ear. “Keep playing with fire, Shay. My burn doesn’t go away so easily,” I whisper in her ear letting my teeth graze the shell of her ear and breath fanning across her cheek.
She swirls her ass a little more into me when she glances over her shoulder at me, our lips so close they could touch. My eyes immediately move to where her lips are. I know they would taste so sweet. What I wouldn’t give to just taste her once. Both sets of her lips.Fuck.Just the thought alone is driving my body crazy. My clit pulses and I can feel myself get so wet. I’m going to need a cold shower and my vibrator tonight for sure. And the way I’m feeling, I don’t think once will be enough.
My eyes finally go back to hers and I notice now she’s staring at my lips. Her tongue pokes out to lick her bottom lip, and it grazes mine, that’s how close our mouths are. Just the slightest move right now and I could feel how soft her lips are. How well they mold to mine. Feel how her tongue tangles with mine. Her eyes slowly move to mine.
“Maybe I want to feel your heat,” she whispers, stealing my breath for just a moment. Both of our eyes keep dancing between each other's eyes and mouths. The tension is high. My lips separate, ready to devour her, when I hear a door open.
I step back setting the glasses down on the counter moving back to the sink when Darian comes into the kitchen.
“Who’s taking me to school in the morning?” he asks as she strides up the kitchen island counter. Shay grabs the glasses and a shuddering breath leaves her. Good. I’m glad I’m not the only one affected here. I’m so consumed by thoughts right now, I’m really hoping she answers because I don’t think I could find myvoice. I hear her clear her throat when she turns around and places the glasses on the island counter now.
“Oh… um… I think Lexi is taking you since I’m taking Bugg,” she says nonchalantly as she moves to the refrigerator taking out the bottle of wine. I glance over and Darian is looking at me. I nod and rinse the last glass that was taken from his room.
“Yeah, Dare, I got you in the morning. Normal time or…” my voice trails off letting him fill in the blanks, so to speak. I can hear Shayna rummaging around the drawer for the wine bottle opener and I place the glass I had been rinsing in the dishwaser.
