The Secret (The Tuesday Club #1)

by Lulu Moore

To all parents everywhere. Single or otherwise. You are superheroes.

Tuesday is the day that the serious shit goes down because you're lulled into the false sense of security that the worst day of the week is over.

And I gave zero shits about how much I enjoyed dressing her, because my daughter was fucking cute. And beautiful. I was a bona-fide girl dad and proud of it.

I was the funny one of the group, and I wanted her laughs all to myself, especially as that was the only thing I’d ever get.

“Oh my God! Stop!” Penn hissed, picking up Bell’s bottle. I frowned. “What?” “You look like a Taylor Swift song.” “What?” “You’re in deep shit.” I groaned. “Tell me something I don’t know.”

She wasn’t simply the sexiest nanny I’d ever seen, she was the sexiest woman I’d ever known or laid eyes on. She wasn’t just beautiful; she was funny, striking, and fucking smart. Maybe even smarter than me. The whole goddamn package.

then there she was, arriving as bright and true as she did in real life, bursting into my days, her sunny disposition and unequivocal charm preventing me from any possible chance to sleep peacefully.

The things I now felt proud about had changed significantly, because getting my daughter to burp was right up there on the list, along with how well she was growing.

“Is there anything in this city not touched by you?” she teased. My heart, my mind, and my dick were all fully aligned on the answer to that question, but it probably wasn’t the right time to tell her that. Instead I went for a slightly vague... “I can think of one thing.”

I’d never met anyone I’d wanted a one after that with. And this wasn’t about Bell. I knew it as well as I not only knew my heart, mind, and dick, but also my own soul. If Bell wasn’t here, I’d still want her. I hadn’t been looking for her, but somehow I’d found her. And now I was going to show her I’d be worth wanting, too.

“You too, Columbia. Be good.” His wink took me to feverish levels. “Call me if you need anything though. Or just want to give me a play by play, I enjoy those.”

Columbia?!?! 😭

“I picked these up for you on the way home.” He pulled a single stem out of the thick brown paper they were wrapped in. “Except this one. This one is for Bell.”

“I have Bell. I have you. And that’s it.”

“Tell me.” “I want this.”

I see you turning every single head, women and men looking at you.” “No one’s ever looked at me the way you did last night, or again this morning,

I wanted her, all of her. Falling in love was an inevitable part of that, and for the first time in my life, I was ready. I wanted her to be mine. And I was going to Bring. It. The fuck. On.

However, until Bell, I don’t think I ever realized that something was missing. Bell and you, you’ve changed my whole world.”

“Shhhhh, darling.” He placed his palm on my chest, then took my hand and mirrored the motion. Under my fingers I could feel his heart beating as fast as mine. “See? I’m the same.”

“We aren’t alone in this house, Columbia. You can scream all you want when we’re back home, but here you need to keep quiet. I don’t want anyone to hear your moans except me, every single one belongs to me. I’ve earned them and I’m not sharing.”

He placed my palm on his chest again. “You feel that, baby? You feel how we’re made for each. Holy shit, you’re perfect.”

girls came with so many products, one of the myriad reasons I’d never wanted to share my space with any. But I would give her all the counter she needed, because now it was impossible to imagine my life before she was in it, or my life without her, now I knew we existed in the same world.

I’m telling you now; I will be the last man you kiss like that.”

If I thought I was in love with him before, I knew for certain now. He owned my heart, my mind, my soul. Me.