Free Harkham's Corner (Harkham's Series Book 3) by Chanse Lowell, Lynch Marti

today while you’re resting and gaining your strength. Deal?” He set the egg timer for her, and she carried it off with her, a hopeful look in her eyes.
    She knew she had ten minutes to look at books and then she was to close her eyes and hum herself to sleep. That’s how afternoon naps went.
    Once she was in her room, he gulped down a soda, ate his chips so fast he barely tasted them, then logged on and started his test.
    Only his concentration was shaky.
    Damn that phone call. Why was it bothering him this bad?
    It wasn’t. It wouldn’t.
    He ran his sweating palms down his shorts. Nothing mattered but his family and his studies. That’s all he had to worry about.
    Well, and Choppy. She was important, too.
    He glanced over at his pal sleeping by the sliding glass door.
    Maybe he’d give her a bath tonight with Meg’s help. She liked blowing bubbles at their dog while he scrubbed the stink from her pretty coat.
    He went back to his test, wishing Choppy was closer so he could pet her and calm down a little better.
    Would it help, though? Really?
    He ignored the feelings lighting him up inside, setting his groin on fire.
    His legs almost twitched with masculine power.
    But it would have to wait.
    He swallowed hard, and the thought of what he could do after this test was done, set him back to his task with a much clearer focus.
    Good. He needed this type of motivation.
    A very soon-to-be-naked Mari was all he needed to look forward to in order to accomplish his goals—his reward—his wife .
    She was why it all made sense.
    It didn’t take him long to finish the test once his head was back in the right space, and he felt pretty good about how it went.
    His father texted him a few minutes later to ask how the test went, and to also tell him they never did find his lab coat.
    Fridays his dad had off, so Adam was confused about why he mentioned the coat.
    Oh well. It didn’t matter. The coat would turn up. Things usually did that in his life.
    When he didn’t look, they almost bit him in the leg. Worse than Choppy when she needed to pee outside in the backyard and refused to use the doggy door.
    He got up and searched for Mari. He’d heard her come home when he was taking his test, but he was so absorbed in what he was doing he barely said hi to her as she passed by.
    Now was different. Now he could see all of her.
    Nakedness was important. The most important part of his day.
    He turned the corner into the living room and took a deep breath.
    She was reading on the couch, nursing the baby. Dressed— dammit !
    He lowered his head, keeping his eyes zeroed in on her and sort of bared his teeth while his fingers flexed.
    Yes, he could get her naked very quickly. Baby or no baby attached.
    He was better at stripping her down than Meg was at dressing her baby dolls.
    “Sweetie, I can feel you watching me,” she said, smirking while keeping her eyes on her phone.
    “You’re so pretty. Always my eyes search for you. I can’t help it. They love the way you look.” He leaned against the wall. If he got closer, he could smell her, too, but then he’d want to touch her and Button was fussy a lot today. Teething most likely.
    If the baby went to sleep, then he could strip her down and touch her wherever he wanted.
    His dick hardened just thinking about it. That was always a good feeling. The tingles. The soreness.
    He used to hate that feeling, but not anymore. Not now that he knew what it felt like when he released his semen inside her pussy nice and deep, where it belonged . . . Well, it was something he craved endlessly.
    “We’re out of condoms,” she reminded him. “You said you’d go get some today. And you already came inside me that last time in the garage a few weeks ago. Lucky for you I’d just had my period end, so I wasn’t too worried about it. But this time we’re in the danger zone, buddy.”
    “I didn’t have time,” he said, stretching and yawning.
    “Then you don’t have time to make love to