Eventually I stopped watching him and my eyes moved back to the tv. Just in time to see a baby elephant get taken down. Big mistake. I sighed heavily as I closed my eyes and let my mind wander.
Thankfully it didn’t wander to where it had been earlier. It went to my dad who was blissfully happy for the first time since he’d re entered my life.
He’d not only found his coven but his female as well. He had an adopted son and a baby on the way. He had a successful business on top of that. His life was so full it was damn near bursting.
Watching him find happiness brought me a great deal of joy. And relief, if I was being honest.
Ever since he’d come into my life his entire existence had been about me. I loved him but I felt a lot of pressure to be theperfect daughter for him. And that pressure never came from him but was something I always put on myself. Rain would be proud of me if I burned the whole world down to the ground around me. But I always wanted more for him out of life than being obsessed with me because he was the absolute best dad any girl could ever hope for.
I loved that he now had a full life of his own that had absolutely nothing to do with me. And his family just kept getting bigger and bigger. I effing loved watching him surround himself with people who loved him as much as I did.
Depending on what we found in this unit tomorrow I might not even tell him about any of this. Maybe it was my turn to look out for my dad for a change so he could just continue to be nothing but happy and worry free for awhile.
There were two problems with that plan. One had just walked out of the bathroom in nothing but a pair of gray sweatpants and wet hair and the other one was currently drawing on my body with permanent marker.
There was a knock on the door and Trenton answered it without bothering to put a shirt on. I heard a female voice stumbling over her words out in the hallway and I couldn’t help but snicker a little.
Boy, did I get it. I’d stumble when faced with all that masculine beauty for the first time too. Thankfully I’d seen it all before so I didn’t drool like a simpering fool.
“Don’t get jealous,” Simon whispered to me so his brother wouldn’t overhear. “You know all of that is just for you. He doesn’t even notice other women unless they’re a threat to you, or family like Isobel. Neither of us do.”
I kept my mouth shut on the subject. Trenton had all of the patience in the world for me. Simon had clearly run out of his a long time ago and the kid gloves had come off. He was goingfor broke now and took every opportunity he found to point his feelings out to me.
And I couldn’t even blame him for it.
I was tired of making them wait too but at this point I feared I had taken it too far and I had no idea how to make the first move with either of them.
I always was really dumb like that when it came to the opposite sex.
I should have just jumped their bones and been done with it. Neither of them would complain. But, no matter how many men that I took to my bed, I never got over my shyness that came out of me before I got that first time over and done with.
Trenton came back into the room pushing a silver cart in front of him. The whole thing was covered with lidded plates. It was enough food to feed a family of five and there were only the three of us here in this room.
Fucking Simon. He could be so utterly ridiculous at the best of times.
Simon capped the Sharpie, tossed it onto the nightstand, and jumped up from the bed. He practically sprinted towards the cart.
Trenton ignored his brother and laid down on the other bed with every single pillow shoved behind his upper body.
I took the opportunity to look down at my side for the first time.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Simon had started to sketch out a dream catcher onto me with beautifully drawn feathers dangling from it. It wasn’t done yet but it was the start of what absolutely would be my next tattoo.
As soon as we got home I was making him ink it permanently into my skin exactly as it was. I didn’t care if I had to skip out onshowering for this entire trip so it didn’t fade away. I could rock being smelly and dirty for that. Definitely.
Simon dished out all the food. I’d been right and he’d ordered more than I could possibly eat. He also ate everything I didn’t.
I fell asleep content and with a belly full of food while he was still drawing on my skin.
I woke up sometime in the middle of the night wrapped up in his arms tightly while Trenton slept on in the other bed.
I closed my eyes and went back to sleep, happy to know I was exactly where I belonged.
8
Let’s Do This
