Total pages in book: 141
Estimated words: 133213 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 666(@200wpm)___ 533(@250wpm)___ 444(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 133213 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 666(@200wpm)___ 533(@250wpm)___ 444(@300wpm)
It could be so rough to realize your parents had these whole lives before they were moms and dads. Lives where they did dumb shit and made bad choices. Like how his dad had slept with half of Dallas before he married Mom. His parents talked a lot, and the older generations’ relationships had been messy.
Kind of like they’d been young once, too, and somehow survived it.
Adam sighed with a shit-eating grin on his face. “Oh, your mom was hot. I can discuss your mom’s hotness because Serena agrees with me. Grace Hawthorne was a goddess on the club floor. Yeah, I totally tried to hit that. Almost wrecked my friendship with your dad over her.”
He got up and went for the whiskey.
“But it’s fiction. Aunt Serena writes fiction,” Carys insisted. “Like there’s this scene in a pool… I mean the pool scene didn’t happen in real life. It couldn’t have. My mom wouldn’t… She wouldn’t swim without her bathing suit.”
Like Carys didn’t? It was kind of hypocritical, but he wasn’t about to point it out to her. He’d already slept on the floor one night. He had hopes the club might work out for him tonight.
He gave her a nice splash of the good stuff. He would buy the twins another bottle. He could use a little, too. “Drink up, baby.”
“Are you talking about the whole all characters in this story are fictional and bear no resemblance to real life and events legal thing in front of every book?” Adam seemed to be having a great time. “It’s meaningless. Sure, Serena adds some stuff for drama, but sometimes she doesn’t need to. Your parents gave her the good shit.”
“We’re drinking this early?” Kenzie bounced into the room, dressed for a workout. “Hey, Uncle Adam. Did you really bust through sis’s security system? Because she’s already paranoid enough as it is. She’s talking lasers now. Only the idea that the possum who beds down in the garden sometimes might get cut in half is stopping her.” She looked at Carys, her eyes widening. “Oh, no. What did Tristan do now?”
He reached out and put her hands around the mug. “Wasn’t Tristan. She just found out Aunt Serena pretty accurately depicted her parents’ love story in a romance novel.”
“And a movie,” Brianna said with a grin. “I always knew. I totally skip The Doms with the Golden Whips when I read Mom’s backlist.”
“Oh, I’ve read my mom and dad’s book. I love the part where Dad’s the biggest asshole and then Mom tells him she’s spent five years plugging her own asshole to keep herself ready for him. I mean at first I kind of wanted to vomit, but then I thought it was beautiful, you know,” Kenzie said. “I’m pretty sure it happened because Dad talks about it. My childhood was weird. Is she freaked out because her dad offered her mom up to you and Uncle Jake when he thought she was in league with the bad guys?”
“What?” Carys sounded a bit desperate.
He poured some more.
“Oh, I thought she read it.” Kenzie gave her a tremulous smile. “Hey, we’ve all had this moment when we find out our parents are like total freaks. I’m serious about my mom and the butt plug. It bothered me at first, but then I decided I want to find a man who makes me want to plug my own asshole for five years just so I can be ready to have filthy sex with him.” She sniffled. “I thought I met him. Then he turned out to be a jerk who tried to kill Lou. I hate him.”
“Your father will be relieved to hear it,” Adam said, glancing down at his phone. He stood and slid it back into his pocket. “I heard he was Canadian. You must be trying to rebel, Kenz. You have to know your sister took the only spot for a foreign national. You’ll have to find an American guy now. Bri, Dad’s got the package. It’s time to go.”
Bri swallowed the rest of her coffee in one go. “Awesome.”
“Hey, brother.” Daisy strode in. “Good to see you’re up.” She frowned when she took in Carys. “What did you do to her?”
Aidan put an arm around his sister, shaking his head. “She recently found out her parents are human.”
Daisy nodded, sympathy in her gaze. “Oh, when I found out about my dad… His ho phase is still legendary, apparently.”
“I don’t think we should call it that,” Aidan said with a shake of his head, then his jaw dropped because Adam wasn’t the only Dean-Miles dad here. Jacob Dean stood in the living room, and Tristan was splayed across his big shoulder.
“Hey, come on,” Jake huffed. “He’s heavy.”
Brianna gasped. “Dad. You said you were going to talk to him.”
Daisy shook her head. “He was not reasonable. And you know I don’t think he was getting good sleep when we snuck in his room. A nap could help him out. TJ swears by tranqs.”