Total pages in book: 114
Estimated words: 112736 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 564(@200wpm)___ 451(@250wpm)___ 376(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 112736 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 564(@200wpm)___ 451(@250wpm)___ 376(@300wpm)
“Fuck.” Coy snaps his fingers. “I knew I forgot to do something.”
Stopping, he reaches down to his zipper.
“Don’t you fucking dare!” I shriek and dance away from him.
Chuckling, Coy chases after me. “Come back here, woman, so I can mark you!”
Shrieking and giggling, I run into the living room with Coy hot my heels.
When I see Levi’s curious face pop up from behind the back of the couch, I’m instantly drawn to him.
“Levi, help! Your daddy is trying to get me!” I cry out as I make a dash for him.
“That’s low, Allie!” Coy laughs as he chases after me.
Looking between us, Levi seems to quickly catch on to what’s going on and his face breaks out in a grin.
“Protect me!” I cry as I grab him and start to hide behind him.
Levi giggles as I duck down and Coy steps up to us.
“Hand over your momma,” Coy fake growls.
Levi shakes his head, still giggling, and puts his fists up. “You leave my mommy alone.”
Coy cocks his head. “Oh, you gonna fight me, boy?”
“Yes!” Levi squeals as he launches himself at Coy.
Coy grunts as Levi crashes into him, then he takes Levi gently down to the ground.
The two of them start play fighting and wrestling. Coy grunting in fake pain with each punch Levi lands. He even lets Levi get on top of him and acts like he’s getting his ass beat.
The whole time the two of them laughing.
And I watch them, cheering Levi on while my heart swells with pure joy.
I swear I’ve never been happier in my life.
So happy I could cry.
I can’t remember the last time I saw Levi so happy and full of life. Fuck, I don’t think he’s ever been like he is when he’s with Coy.
Over the past few months, I’ve watched my little boy retreat into himself, and I’ve been so damn worried…
Coy, though, seems to have some kind of magic I don’t have. With Coy, Levi doesn’t seem to be afraid to be himself.
Hell, he even talks back to me. Levi never talked back to me before, and he still doesn’t do it when Coy isn’t around.
But whenever Coy is around, it’s almost like he’s got something to prove…
And I can’t even find it in myself to be mad.
After a few minutes, Darlene wanders in from the kitchen. She takes one look at what’s going on and shakes her head.
Eyes sparkling with amusement, she looks between Coy and me before she asks, “Don’t you two have a party to go to?”
I could slap her as I watch Coy’s head perk up with realization. “Oh yeah…”
Not realizing Coy isn’t paying attention to him, Levi manages to land on a punch on Coy’s cheek that he wasn’t expecting.
Coy grunts in real pain.
Eyes going wide as he realizes what he did, Levi starts to frantically scoot back on Coy’s stomach, but Coy’s hands grab him to stop him.
Coy turns his head back to look at Levi then his eyes light up as he growls, “That was a mistake, son.”
Rolling Levi onto his back, he starts tickling him.
Levi squirms, shrieks, and kicks his legs as Coy goes at him.
“Help me, Mommy!” Levi cries out, his little arm reaching for me.
Shaking my head, I watch Coy tickle Levi until Levi starts crying he’s going to pee himself.
“Alright, Coy, that’s enough,” I sigh, hating that I have to be the one to ruin the moment.
Thanks Darlene.
“You’re lucky your momma is saving you,” Coy chuckles as he gives Levi one last tickle then plants a kiss on his forehead.
Levi is still giggling as Coy gets to his feet and helps him up.
That is until Coy looks at me with a smile and asks, “You ready to go, Allie Cat?”
All at once, all the joy seems to get sucked out of my little boy and he looks at me with worry in his eyes.
Shit. This is the first time he’ll spend the night without us since we got here. He’s probably scared to death.
Dropping Coy’s hand, Levi rushes over and throws himself at me, wrapping his arms around me. “Don’t leave me, Mommy. Please.”
My heart squeezes as I hug him back and shoot Coy a helpless look. “Maybe we shouldn’t go out…”
The smile falls from Coy’s lips. “Allie…”
I shake my head. I know exactly what he’s going to say.
Don’t coddle him.
Coy thinks I coddle and baby Levi too much. But he doesn’t know what we’ve been through…
Sighing when I just keep hugging and trying to calm Levi, Coy stomps over to us.
“Look at me, son,” he says and literally has to pry Levi’s arms off me.
Levi sniffles and looks up at Coy with real tears in his eyes.
“Your momma and me are goin’ out tonight,” Coy says, holding Levi’s eyes.
When Levi tries to turn away and bury his face against me again, Coy grabs him gently by the chin and pulls his face back.