Page 45 of Mountain Daddy
And we didn’t justsleep together.
We fucked.
In the span of one evening, we did almost everything two people can do.
And, heaven help me, I want to do it all again.
Chapter 24
Luther
Act cool.
Act natural.
Act like you haven’t had your dick inside your friend’s daughter.
I clear my throat as I enter the kitchen.
Joe’s distracted, doing something on his phone, so I use the time to pick up one of the two remaining coffee mugs.
They’re both filled with plain black coffee, which is how I take mine, but I’m curious if Kendra adds anything to hers.
Kenny, I remind myself.
I can’t fuck up and call her Kendra when she walks out here. Not until she introduces herself as that.
Will she introduce herself as Kendra?
Will she ask why I introduced myself as Luther?
Do I even have a good answer?
I don’t even know what inspired me to do that in the first place. Everyone calls me Rocky. But when I met her…
When I met her, it felt different.
I didn’t want her to treat me like everyone else.
I wanted it to be different for her too.
Taking a sip of my coffee, I glance toward the hallway.
It should go without saying that we’re never going to tell Joe about this.
Not ever.
Before Joe can look up from his phone, worried he might see some guilty expression on my face, I interrupt whatever he’s doing and ask about our fishing spot for today.
“Uh-huh. I called Fisher last night,” he tells me as he puts his phone in his pocket. “Says it’s stillflush with fish.”
He uses the tone he reserves whenever he’s mimicking people younger than him, and I wonder if I sound as old as he does.
Joe has a few years on me. But not many.
Then I hear the unmistakable click of a door opening, and I stop listening to Joe.
I can’t hear any footsteps, but I imagine Kendra walking down the hall barefoot. Like she was a few minutes ago. When I had my hand around her neck.
