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“It’s all right. It wasn’t before, but it is now.” Taking her sister’s hand, she held it tightly. “Harley and I are lucky to have you all in our family, and we’re safe from people like him. Dead or alive. They can’t hurt us now.”

Selma felt relief. Not in that she was free of the ghosts, they were still hanging around, but because she didn’t have to keep it to herself anymore. Not only that, but none of them freaked out and talked to her like it was no big deal in being able to see them. Once they were in the house again, it was cold outside, so she went to her room. It was time she wanted to get things working instead of being afraid all the time.

“I told them.” The elderly man nodded and told her that she’d done good. “I don’t understand why they’d not want to know you’re around. I’d think that they’d be happy to know that you’re here to help them. I think that Grannie Frazier would be.”

“She would be, but I’m not at a point where I can talk to her yet.” She nodded, not understanding but doing as asked. “You’re a good girl, and I don’t mind a bit in helping you with this. But as I said, I’m not ready to let them know that I’m around.”

“He murdered you, didn’t he?” Selma watched as he nodded slowly. “You don’t have to worry about him anymore. He won’t bother them or you.”

“I know that.” He looked at the door to her room, and she asked if he wanted her to open it. “No. Not just yet. That sister of yours is coming, and you tell her that no one will think any less of her because she’s not able to see me. They’ll love you both equally.”

“I know that.” He nodded, and his eyes widened when Grannie Fraizer came into the room. “She knows you’re around, Grandda Frazier. I didn’t tell her, but she knows. She told me once last week that she could feel your loving arms when she’s having a rough day.”

“Oh, Brogan.” She helped them in a way that only she could. When they spoke to each other, as if they could hear, she left the room. While she was sure that they’d be all right, Selma knew too that Grannie Frazier wouldn’t join her husband until she was nineteen. That was something else she could do, tell when someone was going to die.

~*~

Summer was so happy to have their own place. The tree in the living room was the first thing that they’d put together. It wasn’t a real one, not this year, but she was about as happy with it as she’d been with anything else in the house. Even the girls were happy to have the beautifully lit tree up so soon after moving in.

Having money this year made her feel better about spending so much on the girls. They both had their own room, and they had kept it nice, even with all the other things going on, and she wanted to reward them. She might not be able to afford to splurge next year or the years after, but this year, she was going to go all out. They were a family, and she couldn’t have loved them anymore. Especially Ayden.

He’d taken to being a partner to her with all that he was. Once the girls started calling him Dad, they seemed to do it with gusto. She couldn’t have been more proud of them either. She had a family now, and there wasn’t anything going to come betweenher and hers. Not even the Fortrights were trouble anymore.

“I have a package coming in the next several days. Well, a lot of packages are coming, but don’t open them. I’ve been having fun.” She knew that it was for her, just the way that Ayden had said for her not to open it. Once she told him that she’d not, he kissed her on the mouth and moved to his office. That was another thing that she wanted for Christmas, sex with her husband.

Going into the office, she was surprised to see how organized it had been. Having only just moved into the house the week before, it looked like they’d been living there forever. Ayden was still working, so he’d had to set things up quickly, but she’d been lazing around the house, enjoying being a mom for a change, and now it was time for her to be a wife with all that it entailed. She also had to tell Ayden that she loved him. Because she did, with all her heart.

“The girls are with your grandma. She’s taking them shopping for the two of us. Is that normal?” Ayden laughed and asked her if she’d just ask him if something was normal. “I guess you’re right. Nothing has been normal since I met you.”

“Tomorrow, there is a school function, but for the life of me, I can’t remember what it is. Is that when the girls go to the school to figure out what grade they’re going to be in?” She told him that it was also the Christmas pageant as well. “Oh. Yeah, I did forget about that. They’re not in the pageant, are they?”

“Yes, but they don’t have any parts in the play. I think they arrived too late for them to be able to get one.” She sat on the chair across from Ayden. “I just heard from Brandy. She wants to go to Easton to spend the day with the kids. I don’t know if I’d wander that far from home with her being as big as she is. She’s not even due for another month yet.”

“The doctor told her that she’d be fine so long as she didn’t overdo it. I’m thinking that she’s had this date with you guysplanned before you became a part of the family. She told me that once, that she couldn’t wait for us to have mates so that she could have friends. I’ve been told, and I don’t know whether to believe it or not, she’s not any good at making female friends.” She told him that she thought she was great. “I guess most women are intimidated around her. She does have a tendency to be a little pushy.”

“Only a little?” They both laughed, and she slipped out of her shoes. “I’ve been thinking about things with us. I know that we’re married and all, but we’ve never really talked about what that meant.” Ayden shut off his computer and asked her if she wanted to talk now. “Yes. Do you want other children than the girls? Do you mind that I’m not working but staying here all the time? Just questions that have been going through my head. Also, would you like to have sex with me?”

“Yes. I would love to have other children with you. So long as you’re all right with it. Yes, I love having you home all the time because it makes you happy. And more than anything, I’d love to make love with you. Not just sex, but making love.” He leaned back in the chair that he’d picked up new today. “Is this why the girls are spending the day with my grandma? Because you wanted to make love?”

“I didn’t think of that when she called here for them, no. But I’ve been thinking about how much I love you, and it seemed natural that we have sex. Or make love as you said.” She didn’t move from the chair when he put his computer on the floor. “What are you doing? You’re not working more, are you?”

“No. Come here so that I can taste you.” She nearly fell out of the chair. “All I’ve thought about all month is what you might taste like. Eating you here on my desk sounds so good to me that I can barely think of anything else. Would you like that?”

“Yes.” Her voice sounded husky, and she stood up only to sit back down. “There are people in the house. What if they hearus?”

“They won’t.” He was so sure that she believed him. Going toward him, she sat on the desk, just realizing why he’d put his computer on the floor. Putting her feet on either side of his chair arms, she leaned back on the desk. “Can you see how hard I am? It’s all for you.”

He didn’t open his zipper, but she had no trouble seeing how hard he was. Even as he sat there, adjusting his cock, all she could feel was need. Even when her pussy felt wet, she knew that this was going to be more than she could have hoped for in making love with this man.

She moved her feet over him even as he took her hand and rubbed it against his shaft. Wrapping her fingers around him as he’d done and squeezed him. He jumped in her hand. When his free hand moved behind her neck and brought her close, she moaned again when she felt his mouth nip at her neck.

“Strip. Take your clothes off and let me taste you. Christ, I want to fuck you with my tongue.” His hands were everywhere, and her clothes were torn from her even as she felt his mouth on her breasts. “Feed me, Summer. Feed me your nipples while I fuck your hand.”

When her breast was free, she lifted it up to his mouth, and his teeth sank deep into her nipple, making her cry out. When he turned her around and sat her on the desk, she whimpered when he freed his cock from her hand. But his fingers slid into her pussy made her forget everything but what he was doing to her.

“I’m going to eat you, suck your pussy until you come in my mouth. Then I’m going to lap every bit of your cum in my mouth, making you come and come again.”

“Please, Ayden. Please.” When he got down onto his knees and pulled her ass forward until her pussy was right on the edge, she watched his head lower to her. “Ayden, Please, I—“

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