Gettin' Dirty by Sean Moriarty Read Free Book Online Page B

it’s time for bed she darts over to Seamus. He is sitting there, kind of unsure what to do as she latches herself around him for a hug. Just as quickly she darts to my arms, hugging me.
    I wrap her up and sing a quiet song to her as we walk into her bedroom. I have been alone with Mina for so long now that it has become a habit of mine to sing her to sleep. I’m not sure why my head doesn’t remind me that I have a guest in the apartment, but it becomes all so clear as soon as I walk into the living room. Yep, he probably heard every word.
    “Not bad at all. Voice of an angel,” he says.
    One thing though that comes out of my embarrassment is that I know what I wanted to talk to him about.
    “We need to talk,” I say as I walk over to the kitchen table. He is sitting in the living room and I know for a fact if I go to him right now my pants will be somewhere on the floor and my mouth moaning his name.
    Seamus stands up from the couch and walks over to the table. he looks at me as he sits down. “What about?”
    “You shouldn’t be kissing me without even asking if I want to. You are just taking me like I am your personal property or something.”
    “No, I’m not. I’m kissing you like you’re my woman.”
    “But I’m not!” I whisper loudly, careful not to yell and wake sleeping Mina.
    “Yet,” he grins as he waggles his eyebrows.
    Oh god, he is a nut.
    “Look, you can’t just walk in here bringing food and kissing me like that. It makes me uncomfortable.”
    “You didn’t seem to be uncomfortable when we were kissing.”
    “I was!” I growl out and am lying through my teeth. I was way too comfortable.
    “Liar.”
    “I was not comfortable.”
    “Prove it then.”
    “Wha…? No, look, we need to take a step back here. I am a single mother with a lot on my plate. You know some of it from just being around me for two days.”
    Folding his hands in front of him he says, “So? Why are either of those problems for us?”
    Is he just dense?
    “Because,” I say slowly, “I can’t just be all willy-nilly about things. I have to be careful with my time and money.”
    “So does that mean you don’t have time for me?” he asks with a frown.
    “Well, I don’t really know… I mean these two days have been good and all but…”
    “I think we have plenty of time, and it’s not like I am taking a lot from you.”
    “Yeah, but…”
    “But what, Aaliyah? Why do you want me to leave so bad?”
    I don’t, I say to him in my head, and I really don’t. I mean it. I have no reason why he needs to leave beyond me being uncomfortable with someone so near me. Someone so… in my personal space.
    Taking a deep breath, I steady my hands out on the table in front of me.
    “Seamus, this is crazy…”
    His face frowns as he says, “Aaliyah…”
    I shake my head at him, “Let me finish.”
    Nodding his head, he leans back in the chair across from me and crosses his arms across his massive chest.
    “This is crazy, Seamus. We have known each other for two days and you are already pushing your way into my home and life.” I raise my hand to forestall any interruptions.
    “But I like kissing you just as much as you seem to like kissing me, Seamus. I have kissed only one person before you in a romantic way. One. So this whole thing is new to me. I mean it’s like you are trying to skip the whole dating and slowly getting to know each other thing. You are just trying to get right into my pants.”
    He chuckles and mutters something quietly.
    “What was that?”
    “I said I wasn’t the only one doing that on the last kiss. Your hand was starting to wander pretty far south.”
    Heat rises in my cheeks as I nod my head. “Well, be that as it may…” I stammer trying not to lose my composure. “We need to slow down just a bit here. You don’t even have my cellphone number for pete’s sake!”
    And there goes that grin again.
    “What? Why are you grinning like that.?”
    He points to my phone on the