Total pages in book: 160
Estimated words: 149137 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 746(@200wpm)___ 597(@250wpm)___ 497(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 149137 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 746(@200wpm)___ 597(@250wpm)___ 497(@300wpm)
What would Kay’s daughter look like? Would she come out of the womb with ninja skills?
Why didn’t the idea of potentially, someday in the future, maybe having a kid with her scare the holy crap out of him? Why did it kind of make him happy?
Because he was going so fucking soft.
“They totally warmed up to me,” Jared replied with a grin. “Papa Fred was absolutely impressed with how many pull-ups I can do.”
Yeah, Josh bet he was. He was going to have to make a better impression on those two men if he wanted his family life to run properly. It would be weird to have parents around—even if they weren’t his own. He hadn’t really known his own. Nothing except his father’s fists. “Well, I expect they’ll be around a lot.”
“Do you think the other dude will be around, too? Is he like an adoptive brother or something?”
“What? Who are you talking about?”
Jared stood up and waved a hand down the beach. “The dude who talks to Kay a lot. I’ve seen her with him probably three times over the last couple of weeks. At first I thought he was hitting on her, but they seem friendly. Not like friendly friendly, but like family friendly. She rolls her eyes at him the same way my brother does with me. You know, the dumbass look.”
“Who are you talking about?”
Jared pointed. “The guy who just walked by. Like I said, at first I thought he was a new neighbor or something, but according to a realtor I know, no one’s sold recently. They tend to meet down by the big rocks. Okay, I know I suck, but I’ve got some binoculars up here and I’ve watched them. They’re def not hooking up on the down low. I think she finds him annoying most of the time.”
Something nasty rolled in his gut, but he shoved that shit down. He wasn’t doing this to her again. “I’m sure there’s an explanation. Kay wouldn’t cheat on me.”
“I didn’t think she was.” Jared winced. “Shit. I shouldn’t have said anything.”
“It’s cool. I’ll ask her about it.” Reasonably. Calmly.
Before Jared could say another word, he turned and found himself walking out of the house, going down the stairs to find her. She was at the base of the stairs, washing her feet off in the faucet he had there.
“You know even your feet are gorgeous,” he said, sitting down on one of the stairs.
Her lips curled up in the sweetest smile. “I try. I know you love a pretty foot, weirdo.”
This was what he loved about them. Them. She teased him in a way no one else would, in a way he likely wouldn’t tolerate from anyone else. He was self-aware enough to get that. He hoped they could joke their way through the next couple of minutes. They definitely needed to do this alone. He glanced behind him and sure enough, Shane was standing at the top of the staircase. “Could we have a couple of minutes, Shane?”
Kay grinned the bodyguard’s way. “I can protect him. There’s also a seal out here I cut a deal with. The two of us will take down any sea gull that tries to nest in that hair of his.”
He laughed because he could actually see her trying that. Shane nodded and left them alone. Josh turned to Kay, getting serious. “Who’s the guy you were talking to?”
She didn’t miss a beat. There was no fluctuation on her face, no shock. “The one I was talking to just now?”
He nodded. “Jared says he’s seen you talking to him a couple of times. Is he bugging you?”
See reasonable. Logical. She deserved that. She’d done not a damn thing to make him think she would cheat on him. She wasn’t other women. She was Kay. She was his.
“Not at all. He’s staying at an Airbnb somewhere down the beach with his boyfriend. The boyfriend isn’t very nature oriented. Honestly, I don’t think that relationship is going to work out. Do you want to meet him? He’s nice.”
He held a hand out. When she took it, he pulled her onto his lap and sighed with pleasure. “No. Sorry, baby. Jared mentioned it. I thought I would ask.”
She settled against him. “It’s okay. I’m an open book. How was your lunch?”
Shit. He didn’t want to mess this up, but he had to. Williams had made sense. “It was enlightening. I’m not smart when it comes to reading people. I think I am. I guess everyone does, but this afternoon proved to me that I’m an idiot.”
She shifted so she could look him in the eyes. “Why would you say that?”
He hated admitting how stupid he’d been. “According to the DEA guy, my friend Hector is the head of a cartel. Like a big one. I’ve been to dinner with the guy and he’s murdered hundreds of people.”