"Open up," Lucas said holding the fork to my mouth. It was the second time he had insisted on feeding me as we sat for breakfast this morning."You do know I can feed myself," I giggled but opened my mouth anyways."I never said you couldn't, I enjoy taking care of you,"His words made my heart melt as he smeared some watermelon into my mouth. I attempted to speak but ended up sending juices trickling down my chin. Lucas wiped it softly with the pad of his thumb and brought it to his lips, licking off whatever remained. It was sexy as fuck."Daddy, what about me?" Abby cried from where she sat opposite Aiden on her side of the table. "You didn't feed me too."

  It was Mia's big night.No not her big night that would end her singleness, but we had planned so much for her engagement, it was like a mini wedding.I tilted my head to meet Lucas as we rode next to each other in the back of the Limousine. The kids had decided to ride with their grandparents. They had been super clingy and just as excited after Lucas had told them they would be spending their holiday with their grandparents.I spent the last few days trying to organize them for it and tonight after the engagement party, they would be going home with their grandparents to spend the next few weeks.They had been beaming with joy in the last few days and I already missed them. Thankfully, I had great consola

  "You do know you have been fucking a married man all along don't you?" Sarah smirked as she saw the horror written on my face from her words.I could not breathe.I thought I had received the greatest shock for the evening, but this shock hit me raw, at my most vulnerable moment. Suddenly it made sense what he was trying to close with Sarah. They had still been married all along. He never divorced her."Lucas is that true?" Martha spoke first, seeing as everyone else was too shocked to speak.I turned to Lucas, hoping and praying I would not see the guilt that danced in his eyes, the proof that whatever she was saying was true.But Sarah had not come here

My eyes fluttered open at the first crack of dawn. Heavy, groggy, tired, swollen, one look at me, and anyone could tell that I had spent the whole night crying. I pushed myself up, managing to hold back from falling off Celine's high bed where I had found the comfort to drown myself in my sorrows.After the long drive, I gave the driver a handsome tip to drop me off on the sidewalk, telling him I would go back home on my own. He seemed skeptical but obliged after I gave him another heavy wad of bills from my purse. Bribery had never been a way of mine, but tonight there was no zest for virtue, just the aching, overwhelming need to getaway.An hour's walk brought me to the one place, the one person whose shoulder was always ready to carry the heavy brunt of my tears.Without knocking, I pushed the door front door open, thankful that I had walked in before she and Alexander went beyond the kissing stage. I already felt guilty for ruining one happy occasion tonight, I was not about to rui

  I sat with my back on the headboard while Aiden and Abby lay on either side of me, with their heads leaning against me as I told them as much as I could remember from one of the bedtime stories Celine and I were usually forced to sit through back at the foster home. We always found it boring and would be among the first kids to do off before she even read two lines from the story, the other kids would fall closely behind, it was that dreadful. But tonight, the kids found my old, half-complete, gap-filled story fascinating enough to listen to as I tried to lull them to sleep.After today, they needed the assuring warmth from someone they could trust and I did not mind providing just that for them.The door creaked open and Lucas's large form filled the doorway. He had gone with dad and Rob to the nearby police