46. Jud
The days after the conversation in the library were brutal. Every lingering glance, every touch, it all felt like one long tease that was costing me my sanity. My paintings had turned erotic and I had to stop myself from going to Ada’s room every night. The only thing keeping me from sneaking in was her desire to not do anything while her parents were in the house. The only thing keeping me from kicking her parents out of the house was how genuinely great they were.
While I was distracted with thoughts of fucking their daughter, they were proving that they were ready to be grandparents by spoiling the kids. Milo had instantly taken to calling Mandy and Ken grandma and pop. Avery and Alex were amazed at how easily the older couple could embarrass Kendall and send her running to her room. I even thought that Kendall already loved them, too, despite her insistence that they were trying to ruin her life by asking her about safe sex. I’d seen her smiling when Ada referred to her and Ken as The Kens.
I knew Collin and Joe were suffering just as much as I was. We’d all obsessed over page thirty-two until it was burned into our brains. We knew page thirty-two and we wanted page thirty-two. It hadn’t taken the three of us to go from unsure and a little weirded out by the idea of sharing Ada in bed to wanting it so badly that our hands ached from trying so hard not to grab her.
Ada moved around the house steadily, floating between the kids and her parents. When she slowed down, though, I could see the way her eyes always moved back to us. She was suffering as much as we were. That was why it shouldn’t have surprised me when she reached out and grabbed my arm to tug me into one of the guest rooms. She was wound just as tightly as we were.
The door slammed shut when she shoved me against it and then her mouth was on mine, hot and needy. She moaned into my mouth and tugged at my lower lip with her teeth before pulling back and yanking my shirt up and over my head.
I grabbed her ass and picked her up, ready to fuck her against the door right then and there. Before I could turn her around, though, she pushed me away and grinned up at me.
“My parents are taking the kids to the movies tonight. It’s a long one.” That was all she said before she opened the door and vanished.
I glared down at my dick and willed it to settle down so I could chase after the little tease who’d just killed any hopes I had of working the rest of that day. It’d been too many long days and nights of dreaming about getting my hands on Ada again for my dick to be a willing participant in anything I wanted that wasn’t getting inside of Ada as soon as possible.
When I could finally leave the room without showing off the tent in my pants, I trailed through the house and swore when I heard Joe shouting Ada’s name from somewhere else. I headed his way and found him and Collin both standing at the bottom of the front stairs, frustrated looks on both of their faces.
Collin looked at me and growled. “If you see Ada, avoid her like the plague. She’s not playing nice today.”
I grunted. “Yeah, I experienced her torture myself.”
Joe paused and I watched as his face went slack and then shifted into something resembling a starving wolf. “Her parents are going out with the kids tonight.”
My brain slowly caught up with the rest of my body. “Oh. Oh.”
Collin ran his hands over his head, leaving his hair frazzled. “I don’t think I can make it.”
“Since you’re all standing around instead of working, how about you come to the lake with us?” Ada stood at the top of the stairs in a swimsuit that made my mouth water. It was a white one-piece with cut-outs that had me holding my breath as she moved, hoping the material would move just a bit more to either side so I could get a glimpse of her body.
Kendall charged down the stairs in front of Ada and stopped in front of her dad. “Hey. Can my friend Beck come over to swim with us?”
Ada waved her arms dramatically from the stairs. She nodded in big, drawn out movements and then pretended she was adjusting her suit when Kendall looked back at her.
“Sure. You don’t mind that I’m coming swimming, too?” Joe cleared his throat and smiled down at her. “This is…Beck… Beck, who is your…girlfriend?”
I did a double take. “Girlfriend?”
Ada opened her mouth but Joe spoke up before she could. “Kendall has a girlfriend she kisses and it’s fine.”
“Are you old enough for that?” I shuddered. “No. You’re too young to kiss anyone, Kenny.”
Ada had come down the stairs and she gently rested her hand on my chest. “Kendall is fifteen and she’s decided that she’s ready to kiss her girlfriend. We’re not going to make a big deal out of it, right?”
Kendall smiled at Ada. “Thanks.”
I swallowed down the urge to argue about my baby niece being a baby and not old enough to kiss anyone. “Fine. I’m coming swimming, too, though. I want to check this Beck person out.”
“But you’re not going to embarrass me, right?” Kendall frowned. “None of you are going to embarrass me. Right? Please.”
“Of course, they aren’t going to embarrass you, Kenny.” Ada shot us all a stern look and wrapped her arm around Kendall’s shoulders. “Fortunately for you, my parents are taking time to themselves before the movies tonight.”
“Oh, I know. If they were coming I wouldn’t have invited Beck.” She winced. “Sorry.”
“Ada! Milo is trying to eat the sunscreen!” Alex poked his head out of the kitchen and faked a gag. “He’s disgusting!”
I reached out and caught Ada’s arm as she started to rush to the rescue. “Let me.”
Her face brightened and her smile stretched from side to side. She even threw her arms around me and hugged me quickly. “What a daddy.”
I raised my eyebrows as Collin and Joe both coughed to cover their shocked laughs. I watched Ada turn deep red and flounder for what to do or say to clarify. “That’s probably more Joe’s role.”
Ada squeaked out a mumbled response that I was sure no one could understand and hooked her arm through Kendall’s. “Let’s go see if Beck is here yet.”
“He’s eating it!”
“Shit.”