Total pages in book: 34
Estimated words: 31820 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 159(@200wpm)___ 127(@250wpm)___ 106(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 31820 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 159(@200wpm)___ 127(@250wpm)___ 106(@300wpm)
“Just say it,” she said.
“Why didn’t you say anything?” he asked.
He was pissed off and a little happy, but mostly pissed off. She hadn’t said anything to him about her virginity, and now he did know. He’d been her fucking first. Yes, he was happy about that, but he also hadn’t been prepared, so when she let out a scream, he didn’t know at first what was going on.
“Are you going to join me?” Ava asked.
“No, I’m going to sort everything out. You’re going to stay here and in that water until I come back. Do you understand?”
“Knox, don’t be mad.”
He didn’t even justify that with a response, and instead he left the bathroom and went to the bed that had the evidence of what they had just done. He’d taken her virginity. Those thoughts kept going around and around his head, and he couldn’t seem to get them to stop. He’d been Ava’s first.
Taking the sheets off the bed, he bundled them up, as the door to her bedroom opened and Knox reached for the gun he kept close at all times. He stopped as soon as he realized it was Marshal.
“Knox, buddy, I was just coming in to check on Ava. Wait, where is Ava?”
“She’s in the bathroom. You’re not going in there.” He was thankful he had shut the door.
“When did you arrive, man? I was doing my cardio.”
“I arrived about an hour ago,” he said. He wasn’t exactly keeping track.
Marshal looked at him, then at the bedsheets, and back at him. “Not a single word.”
“What’s going on?” Marshal asked.
“Nothing you need to worry about. Do you have a laundry room?”
“Of course. Ava’s been doing my laundry for me, but I totally have one, and I happen to know where it is.”
“You didn’t know, did you, before Ava showed you?” Knox asked.
“It wasn’t like I needed to know. I had people to handle everything, and then my wife came in—sorry, ex-wife—and, well, it has been a little chaotic, but now I’m not, you know, worried about it at all. Ava’s been a big help. I don’t know what I would have done without her.”
“You’re not keeping her.”
“Have I even implied that?” Marshal asked.
Knox glanced over to Marshal.
“Okay, fine, fine, I’m tempted to ask you if I can keep her. You know what I was thinking?”
“Absolutely not.”
“Great, because that means I get to tell you everything I was thinking. I think this means you and Ava should move in with me permanently. You guys can look after me and check out the women I seem to attract, because let’s face it, I suck at it, big time.” He let out a nervous laugh. “And I don’t know who is a friend and who is a foe, but you and Ava always seem to have my back.”
Marshal took them to his laundry room, and Knox knew Ava had already been helping out with this place. She didn’t like mess. Everything was neatly organized. Even the detergent was arranged by size.
The one thing Ava struggled with was either to organize in alphabetical order, or size, from tallest to smallest. This made him smile as it was so incredibly cute.
“You’re panicking.”
“Yeah, I am. I was going to take Ava dancing with me, but she thinks it is a little too soon for me to attempt to get back into the dating game.” He sighed.
“You’re still going through a divorce,” Knox said.
“That is true. I must leave a bit of time between each one.”
Knox put the sheets into the wash.
“Why are you washing Ava’s sheets? Was the reason I couldn’t go in the bathroom because you killed her?”
“Shut up,” Knox said. “I would never hurt Ava, and you fucking know that.” The urge to slap this man up the side of the head was strong, but he stopped himself from doing so. “It’s none of your business why we had to wash the sheets. Now, I’m going to be with Ava. There are not going to be any more interruptions, are there?”
“No, none, zip, nada, nothing.”
There was another smile.
Knox doubted the man even know what privacy meant, but he gave him a handshake, pulled him in for a hug, and then a slap on the back.
“Good talk.”
He made his way upstairs to find Ava exactly where he had left her.
“Did I hear Marshal come into the bedroom?”
“Yeah, you did.”
She groaned. “What did he do?”
“He wants to move us in indefinitely.”
“I don’t think he knows how to take care of himself, and I believe he uses his wives to take care of it.” She shrugged. “That is all I’m going to say. Did you know he didn’t know where half the rooms were in the house?”
Knox laughed, and he shoved his pants down, and then climbed into the bath, moving in behind her. Ava moved forward, giving him space so he could join her. He really liked the fact she had been a virgin.