Taking my father in law 🍆💦💦Chapter 1: His gaze 👀💦👅The suitcase by the front door was the first thing I noticed when I came downstairs.It was black, expensive-looking, with a worn leather tag hanging from the handle. For a second I just stood there on the bottom step, staring at it, before the sound of voices came from the kitchen.“—should only be a few weeks,” my husband was saying. “Until the renovations are done.”I walked into the kitchen and stopped in the doorway.Ethan was leaning against the counter with a coffee mug in his hand. Beside him stood a man I had only met a handful of times before, usually at holidays or short family dinners. His father…my father-in-law.Marcus Hale–my father-in-law–looked taller in our kitchen than I remembered. His dark hair streaked with silver at the temples, broad shoulders under a charcoal sweater, the same sharp jaw as his son. He turned when I walked in, and his eyes landed on me in a way that made my stomach dip for no clear rea
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