Office Fling (Manhattan Bad Boys BWWM Interracial Romance) Page 16
“I thought you already were,” I tease her, and she lets out a soft chuckle. Pushing a lock of hair away from her face, she looks at me as if I’m the last man on Earth. Damn, it feels good to have someone look at me like that. “Listen, what about the file, Em? What are we going to do about it?”
That’s the last thing we need to cross off, and I want it out of our lives as soon as possible. The glint in her eyes, though, immediately tells me she has it all figured out already.
“Don’t worry about that,” she says. “I have a plan.”
“Care to share?”
“Maybe,” she purrs, laying a hand on my chest. “But first, what do you say we go for another around?”
“Now that is my kind of plan.”
31
Jade
So everyone thinks that little kids don’t understand stuff.
Well…we do. I know more than what Mommy or Ashton tell me.
Like right now…Ashton is helping me in the kitchen. He buys me groceries and he’s my assistant when I cook. But then again, his kitchen is so nice and he never uses it, so someone has to, right?
I know that even as he’s smiling and spending time with me, he’s focused on the news that Mommy is watching on the television.
I don’t really care about news. It’s too boring. Give me some cartoons or YouTube Kids and I’ll leave you alone and be quiet as long as you need till I get hungry.
But I can still hear and I can see a bit.
Mommy and Ashton are happy because they have some Broad Street men or Broad men that have been cleared from suspicion. People wanted to give them money to take care of but other people were worried that they might be bad men but Mommy and Ashton made sure people realized that they were the good guys.
But I understand more than he thinks.
They’re talking about how the media got the evidence to make sure their Broadstreet Boys-could that be a name for a band?-and there’s a lot of questions about who knows what. They’re talking about some people being in trouble.
Whatever “ink dite” means-and I hope I don’t have to know for a while because it seems like big people problems-they don’t look like they’re too happy about it.
There’s a lot of stuff about those two in the news. It showed up in the papers too.
Right before Mommy and I moved in here with Ashton. She’s really happy.
I know she was worried about me but I couldn’t be happier. Ashton’s house is so big. And his kitchen is amazing. I have playdates with so many people from where Mommy and Ashton used to work together before Mommy left her job.
The one person I don’t see as much is Grandma. I think it’s because she’s on the news too. A lot of people on television seem to be mad at her. I watched one night when Ashton and Mommy were done with dinner and a lot of men who had their bodies cut off so you could only see their heads in boxes were yelling at each other on the television about Grandma.
I don’t know what she did that was so wrong but they’re talking about it being a notional security issue or something like that. Something about there being a leak.
Just goes to show you that big people don’t know what they’re talking about. Everyone knows leaks happen on boats.
But who listens to kids anyways?
If you ask me, everyone should. Mommy and Ashton, if they’d listened to me way back, would have been much happier much faster. Instead of arguing and pretending to be mad at each other they’d be happier. And every night after they tuck me in Mommy sleeps in Ashton’s bedroom and I think they still argue sometimes or something because I hear raised voices.
Usually Mommy wants something from Ashton and he ends up giving it to her. She yells out that she wants it and he asks her later if she likes it and she says yes she does. I’m glad Mommy is happy and Ashton is giving her what she wants. She deserves to be happy.
I love her so much.
But I love Ashton too.
He’s so amazing to us. And he makes Mommy happy.
At the end of the day, with friends and all this new family, I don’t know if I want anything in the world ever again.
Just to be this happy forever.
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