Taking my father in law 🍆💦💦Chapter 4: We can't 🍆💦🫦Ethan left a little after nine. He had a full day of meetings across town and said he wouldn’t be back until evening. I stood at the front window and watched his car pull out of the driveway, the quiet of the house settling in the second he was gone. For a few minutes I just stayed there with my coffee cooling in my hands.Marcus was upstairs. I could hear the faint sound of his footsteps moving across the guest room, then stopping. The knowledge that we were completely alone under the same roof sat heavy in my chest. It shouldn’t have meant anything, but it still did.I went to the kitchen and tried to keep myself busy. I wiped the counters, reorganized a cabinet that didn’t need it, and started a load of laundry just for the noise. When I finally heard him coming down, my pulse jumped like I had been caught doing something wrong.Marcus appeared in the doorway of the kitchen wearing a dark T-shirt and jeans, hair still sl
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