He grabbed her hand before she could fully turn from him. She drove him crazy. Made him feel like he couldn't control himself.
"Where the fuck are you going?"
He saw her cut her eyes when he swore at her. Her brown checks flushed a soft red. God, he had to keep her.
"Evan I am going home. I am not going to do this," she gestured to her surrondings, "anymore."
"One little thing and you run." He goaded her and pulled her closed. She wanted to walk away from him, but he was bigger than her, stronger.
"Yes, Evan, I'm running away." She used her shoulder to flip her black curls over her shoulder. She slumped and stared at him harder.
"I would really hate for Henry to come in and catch us like this," He knew the kids were her weakness. Hell, he wouldn't want his nine year old son to come in and catch him tangled up with the nanny either. But he knew Allyson was very sensitive to this.
Ally blew out a breath, "Fine. Come by tonight."
She yanked her slim wrists free and walked to the door. She felt his eyes locked onto her ass encased in her dark denim jeans. She didn't look back.
"Dude, Jack, we are screwed." She hit the pipe another time and made eye contact with her tabby cat.
His yellow eyes thinned as if to agree with her. They were indeed screwed. Eversince Allyson Scolter had started fucking Evan Harper, her life had been easier in some key ways. Her rent was paid, her bills, her landlord didn't give her a hard time. But now that she was going to break it off, all of that was going to stop. No more extra cash for a pedicure or a massage. She would be back to living by a teacher's wages and barely getting by. The knock on her door surprised her. It shouldn't have. He probably had the code for her gate by now, even though they had just changed it on her request.
She looked through the peep hole and took him in. He looked younger than his 41 years. He was tall and pretty fit for a guy his age. His dark blonde hair was beginning to gray and he kept it short. Ally had seen his college photos from the late eighties and often thought he was one of those guys who get more handsome with age.
She shook her head and refocused. She was ending this thing with him. She was the summer nanny, not his mistress.
"Hi." Her voice was clipped. He noticed it right away. He longed for the days when she met him in a bra and panties and a lazy smile on her juicy brown lips.
"Hey beautiful,"
Ally rolled her eyes and opened her door to let him in. Evan immediately knelt down and greeted Jack. That had been one of the first things that had made her like him. And the way he treated her cat. Almost like he loved him as much as she did.
Evan sat on her small couch and smirked at her. He patted the space beside him.
"Sit down kid."
"I'm not..."
"A kid. I know, I've heard it."
It was their typical exchange. He insisted that to him she was a kid even if she was old enough to be a teacher and old enough to be in his bed. He watched her with his own kids and found it endearing how she played imaginary games with them and enjoyed it.
He watched her walk to him. He hips looked amazing in her jeans. She wore a yellow top that sparkled on her dark brown skin. Her hair was curly and all over his head, just like he liked it. He took pride that she had started to be more confident with him. She admitted that she had gained about ten pounds since her last boyfriend and was insecure with her body. He had shown her time and again how secure he felt about her body.
"What is so important?" She blinked her eyes at him in that way that she does. Looking at him slowly and waiting.
"I have to be with you," he leaned toward her trying to pull her mouth to his.
"No Evan. This is over. I can't sneak around behind Mary's back. I like her, I respect her."
"I do too." And he did. He respected his wife; it was just that neither of them wanted to fuck each other anymore.
"Shut up. How can you say that?" She pushed away from him further.
"Ally, I'm going to tell her. I'm going to tell her and I'm moving out and I'm going to talk to the kids. Don't go to work on Friday."
"No! Don't do this," She covered her eyes with her hands, "please. Don't put the kids in this. Don't take their dad away."
"I'm never going to leave my kids." He pulled her close, almost on his lap. He knew this was sensitive to her. She had grown up with no father.
He saw the liquid on her checks and then registered that she was crying. He wiped her tears and pulled her head down to his chest.
She felt safe like that. Like she could forget. That was how all this had started anyway, she wanted to forget.
"Ally, stop!" Henry cackled.
Ally had the little boy on the ground and was tickling him mercilessly. Seline his five year old sister was on top of him.
"Okay, okay. CC we got him." She helped the little girl stand up.
"Just kidding!" Henry jumped up and attacked his favorite adult in the whole word. Ally fell back laughing.
