Chapter 83 – What is Love? (Anj‘s POV)
Sky left an hour ago after he successfully resisted my children’s pleading to stay for the night. He promised to return on Saturday and looked at the calendar on the wall, and we will all have to wait for two days.
My forehead creased. Not we... They! They needed two forty–winks before that day to come. I lifted the cup and sipped coffee. After Sky‘s conversation with Sister Grace, he was quiet that I was afraid he would just flee the nursing home without saying goodbye to me, but after staying alone in the garden for more than fifteen minutes talking to someone on the phone, he went back inside, surprised me with a searing kiss that I almost beg him to make love to me in the small office. “Dinner!” Dylan raised the paper bags in his hands, smiling at me. I smiled at him and put down the cup on the table. “Did you have to catch the chicken yourself?” I joked, hoping it would help us all lighten the mood after what happened today. “No. Anya and I had to argue for long minutes about what to order,” He sneered at the woman who had just entered the door. She scowled at him. “Liar! I had to lecture him first for turning down Catherine‘s offer to wait and drive us back here.” She rolled her eyes at him. “That pride will lead you nowhere, Dylan, but yes, he was right; we had to argue about what to order.” My children entered the door, chattering about something, but stopped when they saw Dylan and Anya. “I told you not to look at Aunt Anya like that,” she raised her eyebrows. “You‘re like your Mommy, little traitors!” She sneered at them as if talking to women the same age as hers. “Anya, they‘re six. I bet you‘re like that when you‘re their age,” Dylan muttered, smiling at them as he sat down. He opened his arms, and the girls came to him. “You really think I scared your mommy?”
They shook their heads.
“I think nothing scares Mommy,” Leyanne smiled as she glanced at me. “Except Daddy,” She giggled when I lifted an eyebrow. “But Daddy was scared with Mommy,“Selene said. “He said you scared me, Anj,” I laughed when she tried to copy Sky‘s voice.
Dylan sighed, tousling the girls‘ hair. “Uncle Dylan was scared, too. Now, let‘s wash those dirty hands.” They nodded, following Dylan to the kitchen.
“Spill it out, Anya,” I said after catching her stealing glances at me. She took the paper boxes of takeaways from the bag and placed them on the table.
me to help you change your clothes.” She leaned closer to me, sniffing my hair like a
her eyelashes at me.
showered alone, Anya,” I hissed at
you accusing me of accusing you?” She laughed, pulling a chair to sit
in front of my children.” I leaned
like recorders.” She tilted her head. “Please tell me, either my mom or Aunt Grace helped you change your clothes and not the elite god who seemed ready to close down the amusement park just because of
matter who undressed and dressed me?” I asked her, closing my eyes and remembering the sighs as Sky pulled off my jeans slowly. Maybe if I
me.” Don‘t tell me – “When I scoffed, she gasped and hit me on my arm. “Did something happen again?”
“Anya, my sprained ankle is killing me.
her head to me. “Sky seemed to
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