I pointed to the room she’d just stepped out of. “I need to be inside you, right now.” Unzipping my pants, I started heading her way. She giggled, then took off into our room. I had my shoes kicked off and my pants around my ankles by the time I got to the door. When I stepped inside, I closed the door, flung my jeans away and ripped off my shirt.
Anna was lying on the bed, her hair fanned out around her. Her back was arched, her nipples were hard, and her legs were ceaselessly rubbing together; she had an ache just as profound as mine.
Giving my cock long, teasing strokes as I approached her, I murmured, “The Hulk will see you now…”
Chapter 28
Winners and Losers
Early in the morning, a couple of days later, I was tackled by two energetic little girls. Luckily I’d put some underwear on before falling asleep the night before. Anna and I had been making good use out of our daughter’s early bedtime by reconnecting between the sheets. I’d almost forgotten how horny being pregnant made my wife.
I let out a groaning laugh as Gibson jumped on me and Onnika crawled up my legs. Gibson’s cat, Kitty Sunshine, crawled up near my head and sat down with her ass almost in my face. “Good morning, Daddy!” Gibson, exclaimed, way too chipper for the early hour. Was the sun even up yet?
“Good morning, babe,” I grumbled. Reaching down, I started tickling her. Her laugher woke me up better than coffee. I’d missed this. I pulled Gibson into my arms then pulled Onnika up. Rotating my head back and forth, I gave each girl a tender kiss.
Anna was leaning against the doorframe, watching us. She was wearing casual lounge pants and the Douchebags band shirt I’d given to her the first time I’d met her. She’d blown me away that night with her beauty, her fun-loving spirit, her flirty nature…her amazing rack. There were so many things I loved about her that it was almost weird to me that I hadn’t been able to properly express it. Until now.
Gazing at her as I held my daughters close, I said, “I love these girls with all my heart, but you’re the best thing in my life. I’d be lost without you.” Thinking of the weeks we were apart, I frowned. “I was lost without you. Let’s never do that again, okay? Sink or swim, we make our fate together.”
The smile Anna gave me was so warm, I felt the heat from it all the way in my toes. “I like that plan. Us being together, being a team, it’s all I’ve ever wanted.” Walking over to us, she sat down on the bed and put a hand on my chest. “You’re my best friend.”
Loving those words almost as much as the filthy phrases she’d groaned in my ear last night, I grinned. “You’re my best friend too.” My smile slipped as I remembered something important that I needed to talk to her about. I sat up on the bed and leaned my back against the wall. Gibson mimicked me while Onnika crawled into my lap. “There’s something we should probably talk about…”
Hearing the seriousness in my tone made Anna frown. “What?”
With a sigh, I let it all out. “I’m overdrawn, up to my eyeballs in debt, and now, I’m unemployed. Financially, I’m pretty much fuc…” Glancing at Gibson and Onnika, I changed what I was about to say. “I’m in a corner.”
My attempt to consciously not swear around my children made Anna smile. “You mean we’re in corner. Teammates, remember?” With a smile, I nodded, but Anna frowned. “What are we going to do?” she asked.
I shrugged. “I don’t know. I’m so far behind on payments…I don’t know how to catch up, even if I did get another good-paying job, but that seems unlikely, since Dad hooked me up with that last one. I’ll have to start at the bottom…”
Anna nodded; her face was a mixture of annoyance and resignation. There were long-term consequences to my actions that we were all going to have to deal with. When the moment of silence stretched long enough, Gibson filled up the quiet with tales about her dolls’ lives. After listening to her daughter for a while, Anna sighed. “Well, Griff, I only see one solution. You’re not going to like it, but I don’t see another way.”
Having a tiny idea what she was going to say made me cringe. I wanted to argue before she even said it, but instead I made myself ask, “What’s your idea?”
“We go to the guys and beg for a loan.” An inadvertent groan escaped me. Yep. There wasn’t one word in that sentence I liked, and there were several I hated—like “beg.” Maybe expecting an argument from me, Anna raised a finger in the air. When I didn’t say anything, she added, “And I think it’s only right if we pay them back double what we borrow.”
I knew she in part wanted to repay them that much to teach me a lesson, so I shut my mouth and nodded. She was right anyway. I’d feel a lot better borrowing from the band if they made a profit from it. Of course, it was going to take me six hundred years to pay them back. “Okay. I’ll ask them today. Liam asked me to come listen to their first real rehearsal. Moral support.” I shrugged and acted like it didn’t bother me, but it did. Watching Liam take over my spot was going to suck on so many levels, but he was my brother, and he’d asked me to be there, and I couldn’t say no to him.
Nodding, Anna cupped my face in sympathy. She knew I was hurting, but she also knew I’d get through this. Not being in a band anymore wasn’t going to kill me. Los Angeles had taught me that. I was tougher than I thought, and with Anna by my side, there wasn’t anything I couldn’t do.