“Adam, please!” Sierra begs.
“Oh, all right, butterfly. We can go to the park, but only if you two push me on the swing.”
“You’re too big for us to push, but I bet Mommy could!” Sierra turns and looks at me. “You can push him, can’t you mommy?”
“Um. Yeah, I can push him.”
Oh dear Lord, that is not the kind of pushing that just ran through my head. Adam looks up and winks and I blush from the ‘oh yeah, mommy can push me all right’ stare he is giving me. I turn around and buckle myself in as the girls and Adam finish up their conversation and damn it, I know my face is as red as the pair of red panties I have on.
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At this very moment, there isn’t anything better than watching Adam playing with the girls. He is so good with them, and they both simply worship the ground that he walks on. As Adam stands at the bottom of the slide to catch the girls, I take a chance and glance at just how handsome and sexy he truly is. His dirty blond hair is all over the place from running around chasing the kids and God, he looks so incredible in his jeans and t-shirt. I imagine myself licking every single rock solid inch of him.
“Mommy, it’s your turn to go down the slide!” Sierra squeals, pulling me back to reality.
“Yeah, come on Erin, Uncle Adam will catch you too!” shrieks Lucy.
Adam lifts his brows and with a shit eating grin on his handsome face says, “I told you I would always catch you, so get on up there and let me.”
“Oh, great.” I mutter. I know I have a mortified look on my face as I climb the small stairs to the top of the slide and sit my butt down.
“Go! Go! Go!” both of the girls cry out at the same time. With a little extra push of my arms to give myself some speed, I glide down with ease. When I get to the bottom Adam swiftly lifts me up and twirls me around as our eyes lock.
I hear the girls laughing and screaming, ‘Yay!’ but nothing else seems to matter in this moment because the way this man is looking at me right now is making me feel more alive than I have felt in my entire life.
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“It’s so quiet in here,” I express to Adam later on in the evening after Luke and Shayne have picked Lucy up and Sierra is in bed.
“It sure is. I really don’t know how you and Shayne raised those girls by yourselves all these years and worked full time,” Adam proclaims.
“It really wasn’t all that bad. With Shayne and me living next to each other, we helped each other out so much. Thank God Shayne isn’t working and she talked me into moving up here, or I have no idea what I would do,” I admit as I continue on into the kitchen to get two beers out of the fridge. I stroll back into the living room where Adam is sitting on the couch and hand him his beer, then I turn to go sit in the chair but he reaches out and takes hold of my hand.
“I don’t think so, sweet cheeks. Your fine little self needs to sit right here next to me,” he says earnestly.
“Oh, really?” I tease.
“Yes, really.” He tenderly pulls me down onto his lap where I lay my head on the arm of the couch and stretch my legs out in front of me. Adam takes my beer from my hand and sets both of them onto the table. When our eyes connect, I search deep to try and read what his eyes and his expression are telling me. His eyes are smiling back at me with so much warmth and as we continue to stare at each other without speaking a word at all, I see Adam’s desire for me as he moves his gaze to my mouth.
“I am going to kiss you now because I need to taste those phenomenal lips,” Adam says in a husky voice, and I let him. His words send warm, electrifying sensations through my entire body. This man has a way with words that makes me feel so incredibly special. He is going to make me fall head over heels in love with him and that frightens me more than anything.
I have never felt a kiss like this before, not even from him. Our lips and tongues are becoming more and more acquainted with each other’s and this kiss feels like a kiss of promise and a guarantee that everything Adam has told me over the past few days is true. I cave to him and give him everything I have as I hear him moan into my mouth. I completely lose all thoughts of rationality as I pull him closer to me.
I finally break away from our kiss only to have Adam lift up my legs. Before I even realize it, he is on top of me and devouring every part of my neck. Oh, fuck. It’s been so long since I have had a man’s touch. It has never felt this way before. I feel myself start to tremble and he pauses briefly.
“Are you okay?” he asks, out of breath.
“God, yes! Please don’t stop.”
“I am just getting started, my love. I don’t think I could stop even if I tried. I have waited what seems like a lifetime to see you underneath me, and sweetheart, I am about ready to make you fly.”