Finally (Neighbor from Hell #12) - R.L. Mathewson Page 0,34

she needed anything. I didn’t see her foot and I’m afraid that I might have accidently kicked her,” Kelly explained, sounding a little distracted as she watched Devin step back from Charlie so that he could lean down and check her foot.

“No, it wasn’t!” Dustin snapped as Devin carefully moved the gauze wrapped around her foot aside and clenched his jaw tightly shut as he stared at the bottom of her foot.

“It’s fine,” Charlie said, slowly exhaling as she grabbed hold of the edge of the desk as she waited for the pain shooting through her foot to stop even as she couldn’t help but wonder if Kelly’s high heels were tipped with steel because, god, this really freaking hurt.

“I’m really sorry, Charlie,” Kelly said, worrying her bottom lip with a pitiful look aimed directly at Devin.

“It’s fine. Don’t worry about it,” Charlie said, really wishing that Kelly would just leave so that she could focus on getting through this without crying.

“What are you doing down here?” Devin asked Kelly as he carefully pulled the gauze back over Charlie’s stitches.

“I-I came downstairs to bring Charlie her mail,” Kelly mumbled, watching as Devin stood up and cupped Charlie’s face in his hands and kissed her forehead with a softly whispered, “Are you okay?”

“I’m fine,” Charlie promised him, forcing a smile as he pulled back just far enough to look into her eyes.

“You’re lying,” he said, sighing heavily as he dropped his hands away and-

“Wait. What are you doing?” she couldn’t help but ask when he picked her up and threw her over his shoulder as he shifted his attention to Kelly.

“I appreciate the gesture, but you’re not supposed to be down here. From now on, if you need something send an email, but I don’t want to see you down here again,” Devin said as he grabbed Charlie’s bag and handed it to T.J. before heading to the door.

“Devin?” Charlie said, trying not to panic as he headed towards the exit. “I have work to do.”

“You can do it from home.”

“I still need pictures for the website,” she reminded him as she tried to push herself up so that they could discuss this as he carried her through the door only to find Kelly pausing by the backstairs to glare at her.

Oh, that couldn’t be good, Charlie thought as she looked past the woman that looked like she wanted to kill her with her bare hands and found T.J. carrying a child under each arm as they watched Kelly’s every move.

“You can do it when you get back,” Devin said, drawing her attention back to the man carting her around like a sack of potatoes.

“And when might that be?” Charlie couldn’t help but wonder only to groan when he muttered to himself, “Pain in the ass,” since that wasn’t exactly hope-inducing.

Chapter 16

“I don’t think we should be doing this,” the incredibly beautiful woman that he’d finally managed to get alone, said even as she reached up and cupped the back of his neck so that she could pull him down for a kiss that had Aidan backing her into a corner so that he could reach down and-

“You’ve held him for ten minutes, woman! It’s my turn to hold him,” came the unwelcomed demand from the other side of the laundry room door that had them both sighing.

“I’m going to kill my brother,” Aidan said, brushing his lips against his wife’s one last time before pulling away.

“That would probably be for the best,” Melanie agreed with a solemn nod while he took her hand in his, entwining their fingers as he pulled her towards the door and-

“Christopher Bradford, you give me back that precious baby right now!”

-debating faking an emergency so that he could save them from three more hours of this.

“Get your own baby, woman,” came the response as Aidan opened the laundry room door to find his mother chasing his brother down the hallway.

He really wasn’t looking forward to trying to get his son back, Aidan thought, only to grunt when his wife pulled him back into the laundry room and pushed him up against the wall. Before he could ask what she was doing, she was pulling him back down for another kiss and-

Tearing a groan from him when she cupped him through his pants. God, he loved this woman, Aidan thought as she rubbed her palm over him, teasing his cock as he slid his hand over her breast with a groan. When he felt her nimble