Right on.
I’d called Knight early, filled him in and told him we needed another day. He was down with that.
I knew he would be.
So all day it was Creed and me. His body. My body. Fucking. Drinking. Eating. Some talking. More f**king.
I had never had a boyfriend other than Tucker Creed. We’d made love once and he was taken away from me. So I didn’t know make up sex could be so f**king great.
Especially when you had sixteen years to make up for.
“I want you to meet my kids.”
My head jerked so I could look at him even as my entire body tensed.
“What?” I whispered.
His eyes locked on mine. “I want you to meet my kids,” he repeated.
“What, like, now?”
He grinned. “No Sylvie, they’re an eighteen hour drive away so not now. Not tomorrow. After this job. After we’re cool. I’ll bring ‘em up.”
Oh shit.
“Creed –”
His arm gave me a squeeze.
“Sit on that. Don’t react. Just sit on it. Think about it. There’s time.”
“Okay.”
He held my gaze and didn’t let go of the subject.
“Not sure where you are but I’ll state clear where I am. I gave you up once. It killed me. It was figuratively but it still killed me. I’m not doin’ that shit again. I’m further than you on this. In a way, I’ve been with you for over a month. You haven’t even had a week. So you sit on knowin’ in your future you’ll meet and get to know my kids. But, just sayin’, in your future, you’ll meet and get to know my kids.”
“Well, you’re just sayin’ that, I’ll just say that sixteen years have passed so we should discuss that after, as you put it, we’re cool.”
“We’re cool,” he stated firmly. “We’ll just be… cooler.”
I grinned at him and muttered, “Right.”
He grinned and muttered back, “Righ4.”
I took a draw off my beer.
Creed wasn’t done laying down the law.
“They took yo5 from me, they took shit from yïu. They’re dead. Now I’m givin’ your shit back.”
My eyes went back to him and I asked, “What?”
“Yesterday, what I said?” he stated this as ! quEstion but stopped way before I knew wH!t the f**k he w`s on about.
“Uh… babe, yesterday you said a lot.”
‘In bed,” he added detail just not enough.