Meet Me Halfway

Лилиан Т. Джеймс

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valeriyatretyak28 декабря 2022 г.
Finally experiencing a touch of contentment, I watched his fingers roll the cigarette back and forth. “You know, not to be a mom or anything, but you really shouldn’t smoke.”He huffed, curling his fist around it. “I haven’t lit one in almost two weeks.”That would explain the unlit one the other night, I supposed. “Does holding one help with the craving?”He shifted, and my head rose and fell with the slight movement of his shoulder. “Gives me an excuse to sit outside.”
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valeriyatretyak28 декабря 2022 г.
“I think you sank my last ship, but honestly I can’t make out the rows anymore so I’m not sure.”“That’s just another way of saying you suck at this game.”I arched an eyebrow, peering at Jamie over the top of the game. “Respect your mother, I suck at nothing.”He giggled.“Trust me, bud, if there’s anything your mom isn’t, it’s a sucker.”I blinked, turning my head with horror-film slowness to my best friend, currently curled up with the dogs on the couch, strumming her guitar.Picking up a carrot stick from our snack bowl, I threw it at her face—missing completely. “You do enough of that for the both of us.”“And it is glorious!” She threw her arms in the air, terrifying both dogs awake.Jamie looked up from his board, “Why would sucking at something be glorious? I hate being bad at stuff.”I burst out laughing, absorbing the moment of joy so I could bask in it later. “Never grow up, bud. You’re perfect just like this.”“O-kay.”
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valeriyatretyak28 декабря 2022 г.
“Child of mine, shouldn’t you be getting ready for bed by now?”“I was going to go outside and ask you if we could play one more game, but Layla told me not to bother you. She said you were having a mental crisis and would come back in when you were done asking the sky for the answers to life.”I slid my eyes to the woman behind that statement. I was going to kick her in the ovaries when she least expected it.
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valeriyatretyak28 декабря 2022 г.
“You know, your ears turn red when you’re embarrassed.”I fidgeted, still not looking at him. “They turn red when I feel anything other than apathy. I know. I’ve lived with them for twenty-five years.”“It’s pretty fucking cute.”
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valeriyatretyak28 декабря 2022 г.
Not once did he break eye contact with me as we each tipped our heads back. The roll of his throat as he swallowed was possibly one of the most erotic things I’d ever witnessed, and I was suddenly too hot in my own skin. If he’d been able to touch me, just one touch, I might have shattered right there at the table.And by the way his nostrils flared, he knew it.Fuck.
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valeriyatretyak28 декабря 2022 г.
“I have never been so wrong about a person as I was about you,” he said.I looked up, smiling, “I don’t know. If a rich, old guy offered to buy me a house in exchange for a few titty shots a month, I might say yes.”I’d meant it as a joke, but his eyes darkened, dropping to the high collar of my blouse before coming back up. “Is that all it would take?”
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valeriyatretyak28 декабря 2022 г.
I unlocked my screen, and promptly burst out laughing, startling the dogs who’d come to greet me. Jamie poked his head out of his room, but I continued smiling down at my phone, wider than I had in a long time. I knew, without a shadow of a doubt, I was in so much trouble.He’d put himself in my phone as Sugar Daddy.
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valeriyatretyak28 декабря 2022 г.
Seeing him felt like a sun was settling inside me. The man had no idea I would be here, yet he’d shown up. For Jamie.
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valeriyatretyak28 декабря 2022 г.
“I come bearing gifts.”His eyes dipped down once again, and the corner of his lips quirked up. For a moment, I swore he was about to make a dirty joke about what my gifts were, but he refrained.
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valeriyatretyak28 декабря 2022 г.
“I’m sorry, Maddie.”I twisted toward him so fast, I was surprised I didn’t get whiplash. No one called me Maddie. I’d demanded my family switch to Mads back in middle school because I’d thought Maddie sounded like a kid’s name. So why did it sound like fucking sex on a stick coming from Garrett’s mouth?
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