Free Broken Cheaters by Lacey Silks

tonight. Let me treasure your body the way it should be treasured. Let me kiss away that pain I can see in your eyes.”
    I nodded. A stray tear rolled down my cheek, and Axel brought me to his body. We tumbled to the bed. I laughed, the sound foreign to my own ears when in bed with a man.
    Forget the past, I repeated in my mind, and this time I took his face into my hands and kissed him. Axel didn’t argue. Instead, he removed his sweats, and his naked skin became one with mine, its heat warming me as his hard muscles provided the perfect support for my soft skin. As we kissed, the movement of our bodies was like a silent dance we’d practiced in a past life. With Axel, I didn’t feel the need to use many words. I didn’t have to speak at all. We understood each other like — dare I say, like soul mates.
    His leg was between mine. I rubbed against his thigh, leaving a trail of my excitement on his skin. He grew against my stomach, digging into me. We rolled over so that I straddled him, never breaking our kiss. I slid up and down his length, teasing him. And just as he lined himself up at my entrance, we heard, “Daddy!”

Chapter 7
    A xel shot out of bed and jumped into his sweats. I grabbed my robe, pulled it over my shoulders, and followed the sound of Trevor’s quiet cries.
    “I had a nightmawe,” I heard him say. I stood outside the door as Axel turned on the night light.
    “Can I get you some water?” I whispered.
    Axel nodded.
    As I tiptoed downstairs, I overheard Trevor explain that a T-rex was chasing him. I filled a glass of water and carried it back upstairs, but when I got to Trevor’s room, they weren’t there. I tiptoed through the hallway, listening for the sound of their voices, but I couldn’t hear anything. And there were so many bedrooms in the house, I’d have a heck of time finding them.
    Maybe Axel went back to the guest room? On my way back to my room, I passed Axel’s master bedroom.
    “Trish, come here.”
    I halted, peeking inside. “Is he all right?”
    “Yes, but I need to stay here. I’m sorry.”
    “Don’t be. He needs you.”
    “Come,” he repeated. “Lie with us.”
    I hesitated. Trevor picked up his little head and looked at me with his glazed eyes. “Please.”
    How could I say no to that little boy? After setting the water on the night stand, I laid down by Trevor’s other side. He smiled and my heart melted.
    “Do you know what I do when a T-rex chases me in my dreams?” I asked him.
    “What?”
    “I show him my teeth. Dinosaurs are afraid of our teeth because they’re much smaller. And animals are afraid of what they don’t understand. So next time, show him your teeth, and he’ll run away. And your claw. Make sure you show him that too.”
    “I’ll gwowl too.”
    I looked to Axel. “Yes, growling should definitely help.”
    Sometimes it was difficult to understand Trevor because of his mispronunciation of the letter R. My sister had had a similar problem when she was young, and even a speech therapist hadn’t been able to help her. The impairment passed on its own when our house was broken into one night and we hid out in the closet. Well, at least we thought it had been broken into. It turned out that it was a false alarm set off by lightning.
    Trevor yawned and closed his eyes. This moment felt unreal. Here I was, with a man whom I had met a couple of weeks ago, yet felt this odd connection to, helping him put his son to sleep.
    Why did I feel like I belonged here? He wasn’t mine. Other than the hot sex we probably would have had tonight, I wasn’t sure what was happening between me and Axel, but it was much deeper than a one-night stand and a fuck full of lust. Axel held my hand on the pillow above Trevor’s head, watching the little boy’s breaths slow as his body eased deeper into the sheets. Moments later, Trevor fell asleep, and Axel’s eyes were closed. Fearing to intrude for much longer on this family, I covered them both with the