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Not that she’d been a grownup very long

Stifling a groan, I flopped ontonot to think about her perfect round ass, her bare wet breasts, water dripping down her war droplets from the stiff peaks of her warm pink nipples I remembered what it felt like to pull her toward ainst her What would it be like to cover that body with mine, to move inside her, to make her moan beneath me?

She was probably in bed now, just a few feet from the other side of this wall

It was too close

Seven

Dex

“Look at the way his nostrils flare when he snores”

Hallie’s voice ca of a restless sleep

“Yeah” Luna giggled “Is that hair in his nose?”

“Ew, I think it is I never noticed that before”

“Maybe he cuts it,” Luna said “I saw hi his bushy eyebrows a haircut once”

More giggling “I’lad my eyebrows don’t look like that”

“They kind of do”

“Do not!” Hallie was indignant

“I just mean they’re dark like his But don’t worry, yours aren’t as fuzzy Daddy’s are like black caterpillars crawling over his eyes”

Hallie snickered “Totally”

Silence for ten blissful seconds And then

“Daddy has an outie I have an innie”

“Me too”

“Outies are funny-looking”

“I know”

The next thing I knew, one of theer in my belly button I opened my eyes “Seriously?”

Luna, whose finger was still on rinned “Did that wake you up?”

“Your shit-talking woke me up”

“We want to go swi,” Hallie said

“We have church first You have Sunday school”

“Can’t we skip it?”

“No Yourme my phone please”

“Where is it?”

I tried to think where I’d left it plugged in “Try the kitchen”

Hallie left the room and went downstairs while Luna hopped ontounder the covers, she started juet a cat today?”

“No” I moved my lower body out of the way so she wouldn’t crush the family jewels “We have church, and then we can swirocery store There’s still lots of unpacking to do too Plus, I haven’t yelled at you enough yet for disobeying ency plan”