Page 54 of Darling Wildfire
“I don’t want to take him away from his home,” Cole said.
“Fair enough,” I turned us towards the cabin. “Let’s go see what the girls are making for dinner.”
“I hope it’s not fish!” Cole laughed and ran up the hill towards the house calling for his twin sister. “Em! Wait till you see the fish I caught!”
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I walked into the kitchen and came up behind Whitney. I wrapped my arms around her and breathed her in. She smelled like wood smoke mixed with her vanilla perfume. I looked over her shoulder at the pot she was stirring.
“What are you making?” I asked.
“Spaghetti.”
Whit turned her head and looked at me before pressing her lips to mine. My hand slipped up into her hair and the kiss deepened as I touched my tongue to hers, tasting the wine she was drinking as she made dinner. My other hand slowly slid down her stomach to the top of her jeans, my fingers teasing the edge before slipping beneath. Just as I was about to touch her clit, I heard a rustling and two voices spoke in unison behind us.
“Ewwww!”
I yanked my hand back, and we turned around to see the twins staring at us from the other side of the kitchen counter. Luckily our bodies had blocked my explorations from looking like anything but innocent hugging, but I still narrowed my eyes at them.
“Nothing wrong with your mother and I loving on each other,” I said.
“Yeah, but kissing is gross,” Emy said, pushing her riot of blond hair out of her face in order to stick out her tongue. I kissed Whit once more on the side of her head as she smiled and went back to stirring the sauce, then I turned towards the kids and smirked.
“Oh really?” I stalked towards them. “Gross huh?”
“Yup!” Cole said. “Full of cooties!”
I lunged for them and they both screamed and scattered, running for the living room. I chased after them, deciding to go after Emy first. She ran around the couch, laughing hysterically. Cole threw a pillow at me before I launched myself over the couch and grabbed Emy as she ran past me.
“Got ya!” I pulled her in and kissed her excessively all over her face whileshe shrieked and laughed.
“No! Cooties! Ewww!”
Cole came up behind me, and a pillow hit my back.
“Let her go!” He said around his laughter.
I turned and grabbed him with my other arm, pulling them both in and planting kisses anywhere I could as they squirmed and laughed so hard they became breathless. I laughed as I let them go and we all collapsed onto the couch.
“Dad, show Emy my fish!” Cole said. Emy crawled up on my lap and nestled against my chest while I pulled up the picture on my phone.
“It’s huge!” She giggled.
“I told you!” Cole said, looking proud.
“Can I catch one?” Emy asked, lifting her head to look at me.
I nodded. “Sure, tomorrow morning you can give it a go.”
“I bet mine will be bigger,” Emy teased.
“Nah uh,” Cole said.
I fixed Emy with a look, warning her against retaliating and she smirked at me but closed her mouth. She put her arms around my neck.
“Daddy, can you readLittle Red Riding Hoodtonight?”
