Page 3 of Single Dad Problems
I locked the door behind me and sat on the edge of the bed, breathing hard. Whether it was from my mouth being full, walking too fast, or having my vagina wake up after eight years, I wasn’t sure. I did what I always did when I was stressed or overwhelmed. I called Tessa.
“Why are you calling me? You should be out having fun! I know for a fact that there are so many good things you could be doing! You could be swimming with the other singles! Or making adult themed cookies!” She groaned and I could clearly picture her tugging at her hair. “You’re hiding in your room, aren’t you?”
I fell back on the bed and sighed. “You don’t understand. It’s different this time.”
“Explain.”
“There were these three hot guys.” I rolled over onto my stomach and faceplanted on the bed just to see I’d smeared icing on the comforter. “Like…unholy hot.”
“And? You don’t care about hot guys. Your cooter is basically retired to Florida.” Her husband, Vaughn, said something in the background and she snorted. “I’ll call it a cooter if I want to call it a cooter.”
Ignoring the cooter talk, I pressed on. “Yeah, but this time it was different. They’rehot, Tessa. And my body reacted.”
“You got wet for three strangers?!”
I screamed into the bed and only came up when I absolutely had to in order to keep living. “No! I’m not sayingthat! I’m just saying that I thought they were hot and my body reacted. Nothing more!”
“Your body reacted? What, did you get a damn boner? Of course, not! You got wet. Don’t be weird.”
“I’m not being weird. You’re being weird.” I rolled onto my back and glared at a water stain on the ceiling. “I made a fool of myself. I shoved a cupcake in my mouth and ran away. Not that they would’ve been interested, even if Ihadn’tdone that super normal thing. They were gods and I’m-”
“A goddamn goddess! If you don’t consider the cupcake thing. Why, Callie? Why do you insist on putting your love of sweets over your desire for men? A cupcake is never going to give you an orgasm, sister.”
“Puh-lease. I’ve had cupcakes so good that they were multi-orgasmic.”
“Shut up, Callie.” Tessa laughed and then moaned. “Gotta go. All this talk of orgasms is getting to Vaughn. Go have hot sex!Bye!”
I faked a gag before hanging up. I was just as restless as I’d felt before calling Tessa, only I had the addition of her moans banging around in my head. It’d been so many years since I felt any kind of arousal that I wasn’t sure what to do with myself but I just knew Ireallywanted another cupcake.
3
Callie
I managed to avoid the hot gods until late the next night when I was sneaking back to my room from the open kitchen with a plate of cookies and a jug of chocolate milk. I didn’t want any of the singles having fun to see me stealing cookies and milk like a creepy Santa Clause. I stuck to the shadows and I was almost back to my room when that deep, rumbling voice from earlier scared me so badly that I flung my cookies at him.
I was immediately regretful and knelt down to pick them up. “Damn. Five second rule, right?”
Big hands grabbed me under my arms and hauled me back up. “Don’t eat the damn cookies off the ground, cupcake. We can get you more cookies.”
“Chocolate chunk?” I scowled up at him and ended up resting my hands on his chest. Without my consent my hands molded to his hard pecs and my eyes widened. “Oh, wow. That’s a lot of muscle. You probably don’t eat cookies, do you?”
His lips twitched like he was fighting a smile. Even in the dark his light blue eyes were intense. I’d seen a wolf at a zoo once with the same shade of eyes and I’d been just as captured then as I was by the man still holding me. He was big everywhere with a thick neck that was covered with the start of what I was sure was alotof tattoos. I could see more disappearing past the collar of his t-shirt and they all looked so well done. They were pretty and he was smoking hot.
His closely trimmed beard creased with two matching dimples as he gave into his smile. Of course, his teeth were perfectly white and straight. Jerk. “I eat cupcakes.”
My body reacted before my brain caught his double meaning. My nipples hardened and my toes curled in my slippers moments before my face burned. “Oh.”
He ducked his head as he chuckled. “Why are you sneaking around out here in the dark?”
My breath caught as his hands slid down my sides and settled on my waist. “W-what?”
“Your mouth could get you in trouble if you call out assholes and then walk around in the dark. Some men can’t handle a woman besting them.” His long, black eyelashes practically fanned me when he blinked and dropped his thick eyebrows even lower. He was glowering at my mouth and then my throat when I swallowed nervously.
“My mouth? What’s my mouth got to do with anything?” I reached up to wipe it but he caught my wrist and brought my hand back to his chest. His skin was so hot under my palms and I itched to touch more of him. “What’s your name? I’m Callie. My friend pushed me into coming to this thing but all I want to do is eat the free desserts and read a book that doesn’t come with pictures in it. It’s a nice night out, isn’t it? Hot, though, right? The night, I mean. I should unhand you. I’m sorry. I’ll just take my hands off-”
“Do you want to take them off?” That deep voice worked magic on my body when he leaned closer and whispered next to my ear. “Because I’m not complaining.”
I was pretty sure I was drooling. My mouth was just too wet. One other place felt especially wet, too. I let out a shrill laugh and patted his impressive body before pushing away. I opened the jug of chocolate milk and took a long pull from it. Wiping my mouth with the back of my arm after, I eyed his buzzed head and imagined how it’d feel against my inner thighs.
