Page 98 of Oxygen Deprived

“Does it look bad?” She asked, patting her cheeks.

I shook my head.

“No,” I lied.

She smiled, but excused herself to the bathroom to clean her face anyway.

Her horrified scream a few moments later had me chuckling, even though the words I was reading on the papers had me wanting to scream.

“You son of a bitch,” I growled, looking at Danny’s name. “You fucking suck.”

“Who sucks?” Attie asked as she came back long moments later, her hair back up in a tidy ponytail, and her face scrubbed clean of makeup. “What’s wrong?”

I pointed at the papers.

“It states that we’re common-law married,” I growled. “What the fuck?” I looked guiltily over at Attie. “I’m sorry, but my mouth seems to run away with me when I get all hot and bothered.”

She snorted and raised her hand in a clearing gesture. “It’s fine. I’ve heard worse from the boys at school.”

I smiled at her, then my gaze fell back onto the papers.

“What happened?” She asked. “I heard a little bit about what you did to earn the ankle monitor from my mother while she was talking on the phone to someone about you, but I never heard why you beat the crap out of the cop’s car.”

I looked over at her.

“You want to know?” I asked.

She nodded.

So I told her everything, going all the way back to the times when I first slept with Danny.

“I didn’t like sex very much either,” she whispered.

I smiled at her.

“I imagine that you didn’t like it because boys don’t really know how to use their dicks at your age,” I told her. “Likely, he didn’t have the skills or the stamina, nor the knowledge, to make it good for you.”

Her eyes widened. “So that comes with age?”

I nodded.

“Age, practice and more practice,” I amended.

She licked her lips.

“Would you….one day…can we talk about this one day that’s not today? One day in the very far future after the baby comes?” She requested.

I nodded.

“As long as you let me take you to get birth control before I do it,” I promised.

She grinned.

“If I’d known you were so cool, I’d have come here a long time ago and spoken about this with you,” she whispered.

“Spoken about what?” Drew asked as he walked into the room

My eyes immediately fell on the pronounced limp he had going on.