Dating My Ex-Boyfriend’s Daddy . Chapter 70: is the trope over? .When Addison wakes up the next morning, bright rays of sunshine are streaming through the glass wall, reflecting and shining directly into her eyes. She winces, barely awake, shifting her body slightly, trying to orient herself in the unfamiliar bed.As she moves, she realizes there’s something unfamiliar touching her cheek. Warm, soft... skin? She opens her eyes, squinting. She’s greeted by the sight of a tattooed arm so close to her face that it takes a moment for her eyes to focus on it.Addison wakes up the rest of the way with a jolt, her eyes flying open in panic.She quickly assesses the situation. Javan still seems to be asleep, and she quickly thanks every single deity she’s ever heard of for that, because the situation they’re in is—well, it’s compromising, to say the least.They must have gravitated towards each other in their sleep. Addison is much closer to the center of the bed than she remembers, and
Dating My Ex-Boyfriend’s Daddy . Chapter 71: coconut and bananas.“Hey, you,” a voice says directly behind Addison, and a friendly hand clamps down on her shoulder. Addison jumps in her seat a little, startled out of her thoughts. “Sorry, didn’t mean to catch you by surprise,” Nathaniel says. “I just wanted to say hi since I hadn’t seen you yet. Are you having a good time?”“Oh, hi,” Addison says, forcing a smile. “Sorry. I was just zoned out. Yes, this resort is really nice. You really outdid yourself this year, huh?”Nathaniel smiles. “Only the best for my best of the best. You like your room?”“They gave us an insane upgrade. We’re in one of the swim-up suites. We have our own hot tub and pool. It is the fanciest hotel room I have ever seen.”“Don’t tell anyone about that,” Nathaniel whispers. “The others, I mean.”Addison raises an eyebrow, lowering her voice. “Wait. Are you the one who got us upgraded?”“I can neither confirm nor deny that,” Nathaniel says in a dramatic whisp
Dating My Ex-Boyfriend’s Daddy . Chapter 72: good boyfriend or not ? .Addison tilts her head to the side, rubbing sunscreen into her neck.“Do you need me to do your back?” Javan offers.Panic bells instantly start ringing inside Addison’s head. It would be helpful, since Addison knows she’d miss spots if she tried to do it herself, but—Javan’s hands? His big, tattooed hands—are going to be all over her? In public? Is that even allowed? It seems like it should be illegal. Everything about Javan seems like it should be illegal, actually. “Oh. Um, sure! Thanks,” Addison finds herself saying anyway.Addison takes a deep breath, turning around in the chair and swinging her legs over to the other side so that her back is facing Javan. Javan leans over, picking up the bottle of sunscreen off the ground and squirting some into his hands. He rubs it between his palms to warm it up first—very considerate, Addison thinks—and then two broad palms are rubbing over Addison’s shoulder blade
Dating My Ex-Boyfriend’s Daddy . Chapter 73: a reputation to uphold .Javan leans in, lips pressing lightly against Addison’s as his fingers thread through the hair at the nape of Addison’s neck. Addison opens up to him immediately, and Javan smiles against her mouth.“I thought you said no tongue in front of your coworkers.”“Did I say that?”“I think you did,” Javan confirms. “I believe you said you have a reputation to uphold.”Addison decides it might be a little too obvious if she directly asks Javan to stick his tongue down her throat. She just hums instead, then kisses Addison one more time, soft and purposely chaste, before pulling away.She suddenly feels like she’s given away too much, so to help offset her painfully transparent desperation, she decides that now would be an ideal time to share the news about Joshua.“There’s something I need to tell you,” Addison says.“Hmm?” He asks, his hand moving from Addison’s neck down to the small of her back instead. “I found out
Dating My Ex-Boyfriend’s Daddy . Chapter 73: more to you .“I’ve thought about it. About switching careers entirely, actually.”“Really?” Addison asks, surprised. “What would you do instead?”“That’s the problem. I don’t know,” Javan says, laughing sadly. “There are lots of things I like doing, but I don’t know how to turn any of them into a career. Owing a company is all I’ve ever known how to do. And don’t get me wrong, I enjoy it—it pays well, and I’m good at it. But it doesn’t feel completely fulfilling sometimes.”“There has to be meaning behind it,” Addison murmurs. “I get that.”“Do you feel that way about your job? Like it has meaning?”She nods. “Yeah. For me, I think my primary motivation has always been to help people. Not only in my career, but, like—in life, in general. And I know Nathaniel is only one person, but my job pretty much consists of helping him in one million different ways, so it is fulfilling for me. Especially because I think he’s a really good human. It
Dating My Ex-Boyfriend’s Daddy . Chapter 74: couples massage .“God, it’s hot today,” Addison groans, shading her eyes from the sun as they make their way down the brick path to the hotel spa, which is all the way on the other side of the resort. Seagulls fly above them in the cloudless sky overhead. There’s no breeze to offer any respite from the heat, which is already suffocating.“Right? It’s barely past ten,” Javan says. “It’s so humid, too. I wonder how hot it’s going to get by the afternoon.”“At least this is an air-conditioned activity. Maybe we should spend the rest of the day in the pool.”Javan nods. “Or we can start your bar crawl early.”“I don’t know if I have that kind of stamina anymore,” Addison says, sighing. “My youth is so far behind me.”“Addison. You’re 21.”“And?”Javan rolls his eyes. “I’m willing to bet your stamina is more than adequate.”Addison is mid-sip, drinking the last of the iced americano she’d picked up earlier that morning, and she nearly chokes
Dating My Ex-Boyfriend’s Daddy . Chapter 75: unexpected exhibitionism .“Please take off your shoes,” the woman says, pointing to a mat by the door. “Make yourself comfortable, then go ahead and get completely undressed. In about five minutes, I’ll send in your massage therapists.”“Com—completely?” Addison squeaks.“Yes. This is a full-body massage, so you’ll need to be completely undressed,” the woman explains. “Have you had a massage before?”Addison shakes her head. Javan glances at her in surprise.“Ah,” she says, understanding. “I can see how that might be alarming if you weren’t expecting it! Don’t worry. Our massage therapists are professionals, and they’ve seen it all before. Besides, I’m sure he has too, right?” She looks over at Javan, winking. Javan looks like he’s two seconds away from dissolving into laughter. The corners of his mouth twitch. Addison laughs weakly. “He sure has! Yes. Many times. Ha-ha.”“Enjoy your massage,” the woman says, smiling. She leaves the r
Dating My Ex-Boyfriend’s Daddy . Chapter 76: at a risk of falling .“You did what?” Addison asks, bursting into laughter so violently she almost topples over onto the brick path underfoot. She grabs at Javan’s arm to steady herself. “You’re kidding me.”“Nope,” Javan says, tongue poking at the inside of his cheek. “And it worked, too. I never heard them again.”He’s just told Addison another Skye story—there seem to be an endless number of them. Apparently when Skye first started dating Dallas, they were getting it on so loudly that it was keeping Javan awake at night. When Javan decided he had had enough, he plugged in his keyboard at full volume and started playing the theme song to every cartoon he could think of. As well as his five-year-old-equivalent skill level would allow, anyway—which is to say, not very well.Skye eventually burst in, yelling over the music, demanding to know why Javan was ruining the ambiance. Javan told him that was exactly the point, and then he threa