After dinner, Ryder and I clean up the kitchen and put up all the dishes from the dinner while Curtis and mom spend some time with Reece and Raikin. We work side by side, cleaning, putting stuff up, loading the dishwasher and it feels good. It’s nice being with him, even when we are just doing simple things together.
“How are you doing baby?” Ryder asks, coming up behind me at the sink, boxing me in with his hands on either side of me.
I turn around in his hold. “I’m doing good.”
Ryder narrows his eyes at me. “You sure baby? A lot of things happened today.”
I smile up at him, putting my hand on his cheek. “They were all good things though.”
He kisses me, and I look around him at the door. “We have to be careful remember. We don’t want mom and Curtis knowing yet.”
“I know baby. I ju
