Alphahole (Alphahole Roommates 1)

I’m mulling over the Meryl and Austin information and the baby starts to cry, so Dirk gets up to go get her, so that Adele can finish her dinner. Braeden is at the table with us, in a booster seat, trying hard to master chopsticks. He’s making a huge mess.

Dirk is with us a moment later with baby Lilly in his arms in a tiny pink bundle.

I start to gasp like a lunatic and hold my grabby hands out. He puts her into my arms and I start cooing immediately.

She’s blinking at me, looking around, and then she starts punching the air with her tiny fists. Aiden leans over and kisses her forehead and then kisses my cheek.

“Uh oh. Baby fever. Watch out,” Dirk jokes.

“Nothing to be afraid of,” Aiden shrugs and it makes me warm inside.

“I meant watch out Carly. Maybe it’s Aiden that has the baby fever…” Dirk teases.

I simply smile and play with Lilly’s perfect tiny hands. Oh yeah. Some day? Babies with Aiden? It’s kind of soon to mull it over right now

, but oh definitely… I can see it. He’d totally be a DILF.

We hang out for coffee and dessert after dinner and then Austin and Aiden talk about dinner at Austin’s the next day with their parents.

They start talking about all the weirdness surrounding their parents’ odd relationship and the recent development of Quinten wanting to stop Audra from leaving him, despite them having a marriage of convenience for years and years and the bombshell that she’s sleeping with Quinten’s golf buddy. Sienna’s father. And how it led to Sienna pursuing Aiden.

“It’s like he’s having epiphanies with his health, finally. The heart attack a few years ago didn’t do it,” Adele says, “But now? Now that he has grandkids? Now that Aiden is moving home? He’s looking to fix what’s broken. I don’t know if she’s capable, or interested, though.”

Aiden’s moving home? I try not to react, but I’m feeling happy inside.

They mull their parental woes over throughout coffee and dessert and then Aiden and I say our goodbyes. I like his brother and his sister. And Dirk. And my sister isn’t likely to become domestic anytime soon, so Aiden’s niece and nephew? I’ll happily be an auntie-figure for them. If he and I stay together, if we become something, it’ll be me as their auntie forever.

It’s way too soon to think of all this stuff. We’ve been dating less than a week. We’ve known one another two weeks and I hated him for the first week. Like… hated him.

It’s like all that’s in his life right now, making it a crazy rocky ride in stormy waters, is making him reach for something to anchor himself. His family. His home town. And also me, I guess.

44

CARLY

It’s Tuesday afternoon and Aiden and I have been in bliss. It’s probably moving way too fast, as we live together, work together, and he’s totally all about togetherness. Sex twice a day. We maintain separate lunch hours, though, which is good. I usually do lunch with Ally, Stacy, or the both of them.

Yesterday, we had sex on his office floor after five o’clock as he had a meeting run late and had texted me to wait for him. I waited in his office and he took me to the rug and made me come twice.

Sunday dinner at Austin’s was great, but Aiden’s mom didn’t come. Aiden’s dad did, though, and seemed jovial enough, but we all wondered where things were at. He said she wasn’t ready to think about the future, that she was working on herself. Sounded healthy enough to me.

Aiden saw it as progress, too. He told me the old Audra would’ve come over and been a catty bitch. Would’ve made digs and demands. That she was staying away might be progress.

Monday was back to work and I was busy. Crazy busy and rocking my new job. Monday night we watched TV after Aiden made spaghetti and gave me a foot rub. And then he rubbed my feet on his bare dick and came on them.

Kind of kinky, but he told me he thinks my feet are sexy. Whatever floats his boat. I just love watching him come.

I love San Diego. A lot. I am also pretty sure I’m falling head over heels in love with my hot alpha boss, slash roommate.

I’m busy working at my desk when I feel my hair slide from my left shoulder to my right one. There are lips on the back of my neck.

“I have to fly to Miami this afternoon. Big pitch meeting tomorrow with Franklin’s number one client. Babylon offered us a last-minute meeting, so we’re bringing the big guns.”

“Yeah? That’s awesome!”

“Yep. And it’s at least partly down to you and you getting that Lingo banner in their email, peaches.”

I’m smiling. “When will you be back?”