They ran up the stairs as fast as Adele had moved, both of them stripping on the way from his bedroom to the bathroom after they’d shut and locked the door. Ava’s bag with clothes was already in Seth’s room so she wouldn’t have to go far to get clean clothes.
They both hopped in once the water was on. Seth under the spray, her in the back of the shower. It was hitting Seth’s shoulders and butt, the two of them facing each other. He reached and pulled her in, rubbing their naked bodies together for a minute.
“You better watch it or we won’t want to get out of here. This might have been a mistake.”
“I’m thinking the same thing.” He moved to the back. “You wash up fast, then get out and get dressed, then I’ll finish up.”
She wondered if he was getting cold feet over this but then he lowered his mouth to hers, his tongue sliding in and playing. His hand trailed over her perky nipple then down between her legs, slipping in and stroking the length of her, then stepping back further.
“I’ll watch. That will hold me over.”
“Gee, thanks,” she said. “Now that you worked me up.”
“Look down and tell me who is worked up.”
She didn’t need to because she’d felt it against her. “True. I can hide it better.”
She reached for the soap and lathered up and then rinsed off. He was already turning the water down before she could get out. “I might be in here a bit longer until I can calm down. Hoping the cool water helps.”
“It was your idea,” she said when she was drying off with a towel, the two of them talking through the glass door. She could have stood there and watched him too, but knew they might be playing with fire.
She went back to Seth’s room, pulled her clothes out and then got dressed. She heard the water still running in the shower, so she grabbed her brush and took care of her hair and then pulled it in a ponytail. It was good enough and went well with her shorts and T-shirt and sandals. They weren’t going anywhere fancy anyway.
When she got in the hall she didn’t hear the water running in Adele’s bathroom and knew the little girl was out and should be opening the door soon, so she dashed down the stairs and went to the kitchen to get a drink.
She heard feet pounding down the stairs a minute later and Adele come into the kitchen. “There you are. Where is Daddy?”
“He’s in the shower.”
“Do you need to use my bathroom?” Adele asked. She had a brush in her hand and her hair was wet and hanging down. It was at least towel dried which was pretty good for six years old.
“No. I took a shower in your father’s while you were in yours so we could get ready faster,” she said. It’s not like it was a lie.
“Oh,” Adele said. “Okay. Can you put two braids in my hair for me?”
“I sure can,” she said, knowing that Seth might still be in the bathroom for a while. She needed the distraction herself from the short time they were teasing each other under the water. She sure hoped that Adele went to bed early tonight and slept through the night.
“Sorry I was in there so long,” Seth said almost ten minutes later.
“It’s fine, Daddy,” Adele said. “Ava is doing my hair.”
“Almost done,” she said, then looked over to see him grinning at her. She winked back and finished up with Adele’s second braid. “Are we ready to get some dinner?”
“I’m starving,” Adele said. “I want spaghetti and meatballs.”
“Guess we are going somewhere Italian then,” Seth said.
“I’m not fussy, but I am hungry.”
They went outside and Ava walked to her car, Adele stopping them and saying, “Why do you have to drive by yourself?”
“Because I might get a call to go deliver a baby and if I do, I don’t want you and your father to have to leave too. This way we both have our cars.”
“Do you deliver a lot of babies?” Adele asked.
“Not that many on the island, but I did a lot before I moved here. But it’s not all that I do,” she said. No reason to go into the fact that she did hysterectomies and removed cysts too along with other things. The little girl would have no clue what any of that meant, nor did she need to.
“Hopefully you don’t have to deliver any tonight,” Adele said.
“Babies take time to come, so I normally have some leeway.”
She wanted to change the topic but wasn’t sure how. “Get in the car, Adele,” Seth said shaking his head. “Stop gabbing since you said you were hungry.”
Guess that was one good way to do it.
The three of them were seated twenty minutes later with their dinners ordered and talking when Seth’s name was called.
Ava looked over and saw the woman coming toward them, but she didn’t recognize her. Not that she thought she’d recognize everyone on this island.
Seth looked a bit uncomfortable but said, “Hi, Michaela.”
Oh, the ex-girlfriend. She glanced up again at the woman to check her out. The one that wanted Seth but not Adele by the sounds of things. She was taller than Ava, dirty blonde hair. She might be younger, but it was hard to tell.
“I haven’t seen you around in a while. So is this your daughter? Adele, right?”
“Yes,” Seth said. “Adele, this is Michaela. And this is Ava Mills.”
He didn’t use her title and she was very happy with that. She didn’t like to be introduced like that when she was dating someone. Almost like they were showing off.
“Hi,” Adele said. “Ava and my daddy are boyfriend and girlfriend.”
“Are they now?” Michaela asked. She could see the woman had a smirk on her face, like she wanted to add the relationship that Seth and she might have had.
Seth cut her off.
