I turned at the opening to the entry. “You win back my two hundred bucks playing pool, I’ll give you a blowjob that will make you think you entered a new dimension.”
He grinned. “Seems we’re goin’ out tonight.”
“Can’t wait.”
His face changed, his eyes changed, the way he held his body changed and all of this reached across the room and burned straight through me.
“I can’t either.”
I decided it was the time to get the hell out of there before his intensity obliterated me.
So that was what I did.
Though I did it after giving him the finger.
This meant, as I walked away, I heard him laughing.
Shit.
Great.
Whatever.
* * * * *
“Jeez-oh-pete, he’s hot,” Charlene whispered.
She was wrapped around the doorway to the back hall of her house, watching Creed who was at the end of that hall in her bathroom inspecting her leaky faucet.
I pulled her back and wrapped myself around the doorway.
Today, more faded jeans. The suede boots. But it was summer and today was going to be hot so he’d lost the t-shirt and was just wearing a lightweight plaid shirt, this one with light blues and hints of yellow against a background of cream.
Adam was in there with him and Creed was standing huge and tall in the room, smiling down at Adam who was babbling up at him excitedly.
Donuts were a hit.
Creed was a hit too because he brought them, at least he was for the kids. He was also a hit because he was huge and badass. It was my experience the only people who didn’t tread cautiously with badasses were kids. They adored badasses and had no qualms approaching or engaging them in conversation. Badasses were kid magnets and if the badass was a true badass, he had no qualms about this either.
Creed had proved that morning he was a true badass.
He was good with kids.
Not a surprise, he had them, he had experience, he would be. It didn’t mean I liked watching it.
I didn’t let on and behaved as usual.
The kids ate donuts, drank milk and they did this while Creed and I looked after them and Charlene got ready for work. Then Creed helped Adam while I dealt with Leslie and Theo. Creed and Adam were done first, Charlene was out of the bathroom so they went down there to look at the faucet. Charlene got done getting ready and found me.
This brought us to now.
“Can I help you fix it?” Adam cried loudly and excitedly, jumping up and down twice.
“Need a part, pal,” Creed’s deep, smooth voice with the rough edge sounded down the hall. “But I’ll get it, come back tonight and you can help me then.”
Great.
“I can help!” Adam shouted, jumped again and Creed’s smile got bigger, brighter, sexier and, f**k me, sweeter.