Page 8 of The Family Man

The four of them combined is a beautiful sight. Sage was stunning. I can tell she is particular about what she wears. Even after she fell, she still appears to be neat. Her beauty makes everything so effortless. Even on the ground, she laid on her lawn like she was taking a pic.

This is the first time I’ve seen her or smelled her up close. She smells as tempting as she looks, that heady scent of sandalwood and something citrus, the combination was enticing.

“Shit.” I stop, placing a hand on my hip. “She is just your neighbor, Zac.”

I refocus on my workout. Afterwards, I walk Mishka and head over to my restaurant’s construction.

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SAGE

I wanted to climb into a deep dark hole after I fell. I have a mini scrape on my elbow, my back hurts, my stiletto heel is broken, but nothing hurts like my pride.

I don’t know what got into me.

“Maybe because you forgot how to handle a hot man?” I whisper. I was rude for no reason. Maybe Ani was right. I need dick.

I’m embarrassed and my stupid reaction was to lash out. He looks like he belongs in a Maxim magazine for the hottest people in the world.

I don’t like men with beards; however, his dark well shaped beard is sexy. I wanted to reach out and touch it, maybe stroke it slowly. When he stooped down for me, he smelled sexy. The way his dark hair fell on his forehead, sexy. The way his green eyes searched my body for injuries; that was sexy. You’d think I would take a hint and flirt but nope, I wanted to be the bitch of the year.

After going upstairs and changing my clothes, I come back downstairs to my sisters eating and cleaning up.

“He’s got Devil’s Dick! You saw that? It was a whole appendage.” Anise’s eyes are wide open as she talks to Rosy and Cassia.

I shake my head, but I have to ask, “What the hell is ‘Devil Dick’?”

Anise looks at me like I need to get a life and know these definitions.

“I don’t know what it is?” Pulling up a stool, I sit next to Rosemary. She leans in and whispers, “You okay?”

I nod and lean on her shoulders, listening to Anise speak.

“Devil Dick is when a fuck boy is exceptionally well in sex, and he know it’s good too.” Anise rattles off as she pours more wine into her glass.

Cassie nods as she listens to Anise. “You know he’s a flaming red flag, but that dick makes you come back for more. It will make you act crazy, because it’s good,” Anise says.

Laughing behind my hands I ask, “How do you know it’s good?”

Anise puts the bottle down. “I mean hello, I have a power, okay. I know good dick when I see it.”

“A fuck boy is a player, right?” Rosemary asks.

Anise drags a hand down her face. “I can’t with you two. Thank God, Cassia gets it.”

Cassy smiles, I know she doesn’t get it, but she won’t disappoint Anise.

After some minutes, we wash up and they head out the door.

I hug Cassia and Anise as they walk to Rosemary’s car since they all came with her.

I don’t feel much pain from the fall now, but in the morning, I think I will.

As Rosemary heads out the door, she turns to me. “Pick you up for church tomorrow?”

Did I want to go to church? No. But Rosemary is trying to live better so I will support her. “Yes, no prob.”

Rosemary gets that huge smile on her face. “Thank you. The rugrats in the car told me maybe. I will be here at 10:15 a.m.”

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