I didn’t answer.
“Maybe they will figure it all out now, that I am here and chose to step aside,” she said, squeezing and twisting her hair.
“They’ve gotten this far because their egos will not allow them to see anything but what they want to see.”
She brushed water from her face to look at me. “You have their ego.”
I held the water closer to the front of her face.
“Really?” she said, closing her eyes, grinning at me. “Aren’t you a little old to be this petty.”
“I learned from you.” I grinned, taking the water off her face and kissing her lips.
She kissed me back, wrapping her hands around my neck, our bodies pressing up against each other as I pushed her against the wall. “Now that you are here, there is a lot I’d like to teach you,” I added as we broke apart.
Her answer was to lift one leg and wrap it around my waist. “Then teach me, boss, I love learning.”
“Here’s something. Did you know certain shampoos can be used as lube?”
An evil grin spread across her face. “Yes, I did. Do you want to know how I learned?”
My jaw set, damn her, gripping her hand, I flipped her body around. “Sometimes, I swear you do this on purpose. Just admit you like it rough and stop trying to piss me off.”
“I admit nothing, boss. What are you going to do about it?”
Smiling, I let her go. “Go on with my shower and leave you alone.”
Free from my grip, her body turned back so fast that I couldn’t miss the look of rage in her eyes. She grabbed the soap and moved to throw it at my head. “You are so damn annoying!”
I laughed, ducking out of the way. “All you had to do was admit it.”
“Go fuck yourself!” she snapped, moving to leave the bathroom and nearly slipped but caught herself.
I couldn’t help it. I laughed harder at her, and for that, she came back in for vengeance, even though it was the wet floor she should have been mad at.
ETHAN—PRESENT
Reaching over, I took her hand into mine, when suddenly, the door opened, Vinnie looked to me.
“The silent alarms were tripped!”
“It could be my—”
BOOM!
The explosion to the right of him was so hard, the whole room shook and threw his body to the side, flames erupting outside.
This was not my parents.
The real war had started.
FUCK!
“Go!” I hollered to Dino, pulling out the machine gun from under Calliope’s bed as Gigi rose up confused. “Gigi, come here. Now!”
Jumping off the couch, she ran to me. I opened the paneling beside her mother’s bed. Pressing the keypads for her to go inside.
“Papa!”