Fuck. Why did I do that? I’ve never wanted to fuck anyone so bad in my entire life.
“I’ll be right back,” I say, leaving the room.
Once my dick calms down, I go into the living room. Piper is still in the same spot on the couch she’s been in all day.
“Supper,” I say.
“Okay.”
I stand and wait while Piper extracts herself from the stuff piled around her on the couch, the hot water bottle, remote control, book, her iPad, and whatever else she’s been amusing herself with.
If she comes to the kitchen now, Avery has to keep her distance.
And I won’t end up with Avery bent over the counter. I keep telling her, not with Piper around. I thought I made that clear.
When we return to the kitchen, Avery has already dished out the goulash and put the dishes on the table, along with the rice and sour cream.
Avery and I sit across from each other, and I fix my eyes on my food. She and Piper chat easily, again. How do they have so much to talk about?
“What about you, Knox?” Avery says.
“Huh?”
“What do you want to watch tonight?” Avery asks.
“I don’t care. Whatever you two want.” It’s not like they watch it anyway, they talk the whole time.
“Piper wants to watch another Law & Order, but I think we should have a change. Do you agree?” Avery asks.
“I would love to watch something other than Law & Order.”
“Good. Because so would I,” Avery turns to Piper. “Sorry, you’re outnumbered. No Law & Order tonight.”
“Then what are we going to watch?” Piper whines.
“How about something funny instead of crime?”
“What one?” Piper asks, her nose wrinkled in annoyance. She doesn’t like sitcoms, says there’s no point to them. I keep telling her the point is to relax and laugh.
“You might not have heard of it. We can watch it now on Hulu,” Avery says, shifting her eyes to me.
“What is it?” I ask. This’ll be worse than Law & Order.
“Community. Have you seen it?”
“Of course we have, it’s Dad’s favorite show. Isn’t it Dad?”
“All right, now you’re talking,” I say with enthusiasm, surprised by this bacon-eating, good-show-watching sex goddess sitting at my table. Except I can’t even fucking touch her, even though she’s gagging for me.
The two of them talk about their favorite episodes while we finish eating. I even join in, telling them my favorites and quoting lines. It’s nice actually, the three of us sitting here laughing like this.
When we’re finished eating, Piper says, “I’ll go set it up and put it on the Civil War episode.”
“Good idea,” I say, and she gets up and skips out of the kitchen.
“I’ll help you do the dishes,” Avery says, standing.
“Don’t worry, I’ll do it,” I say, wanting her out of the room.
“I insist. The goulash was really delicious, I’m impressed you made it yourself.”
“Why? You don’t think a man can cook?”
“That’s not what I meant.” She looks at me, her lips pursed and I know what she’s thinking. It’s not men, it’s me.
“I have a lot of talents you haven’t seen yet,” I say, putting the dishes in the dishwasher as she passes them to me.
“Yeah, so you keep saying. But right now, it’s all talk. When are you going to start showing me them?”
I swallow hard, she must be taunting me. Toying with me because she knows I won’t do a damn thing with Piper in the house. I’d have to resist her, even if she stripped naked right this second.
Fuck, there’s no way I could resist that.
We tidy the rest of the kitchen in silence, moving quickly without bumping into each other.
When we’re finished, I follow Avery into the living room, not even trying to pull my eyes off her ass. Piper is sitting in the armchair, the remote control in her hand.
“Hey, get out of my chair,” I say.
“But, Dad, I’ve been sitting on the couch all day, I need a change.”
“Then sit on the floor.”
I stand beside the chair, ready to haul her out of it if she doesn’t move. There’s no way in fucking hell I’m sitting on the couch with Avery. A man only has so much self control.
Piper gets the message and moves to the couch. I plunk down on the chair, my eyes on Avery as she gets herself comfortable beside Piper.
We watch six entire episodes of Community, six episodes of me trying not be distracted by her, before Avery takes the remote and switches to the news channel.
“I haven’t seen the news all day,” she says.
“It’s boring. Let’s watch something else,” Piper complains.