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"I’ll call you back," Spike said to Lia up the phone on Lia rooht, and plucked Myka’s phone number out of the pocket As soon as he turned to reach for the phone, a pickup pulled up and stopped in front of the house Myka herself hopped out, the October sunshine low like black fire
Myka studied the house as she went up the walk Shiftertoas nowhere near as slum-like as she’d assumed, and neither was Spike’s house He lived in a two-story bungalow, its second floor about half the size of the first, an upstairs gable poking up to make the house cozy
A wide, old-fashioned porch wrapped around the front, chairs and a porch swing adding comfort This was not a house for display, like the fine suburban homes Myka passed on her way across town This house was meant to be lived in
Myka had about ten seconds to observe all this before the front screen door slammed open and a ind that was Jordan flew at her
"Aunt Myka!"
Jordan flung his ars Myka leaned down to hirin as he raised his ar to be picked up
Myka lifted hi excitedly about the house, his new great-grando hoht of day, he looked even ht Spike was taller than , hard with th, not protein powders
He wore only loose workout pants that rode low on his hips and tied with a drawstring, soshowed off his tatts, a dragon’s tail wrapping around his abdo Holy effing e as he approached He walked right up to Myka, stopping maybe an inch fro hard to breathe? No, Myka stood in the cool, fresh air, October in Austin dry and fine
Jordan squirmed in her arms and pointed at Spike "That’s my dad" He said it proudly, no fear "Did you know I had a dad?"
"He stays with u?" Myka asked
Instead of answering, Spike looked her over, running his gaze froeable hair to the pointed toes of her cowboy boots Myka had put on a for tank top under a button-down shirt when she’d left the house, then thrown off the shirt when she drove over here, the day plenty warm under the sunshine
Spike didn’t pretend not to look--he ran his dark gaze fro to her waist Myka held Jordan a little closer, a shield fro scrutiny