Chapter 184: Stars
Nelly gave him a flat look. "Oh, thank the goddess. That’ll really help me sleep tonight."
"But," Kade added, his grin widening as he stepped into the room, "I don’t promise not to tell Alpha Lucas how well you’re spending his money."
"Meeeh, he won’t mind," Nelly shrugged. "It’s going to a good cause. And by good cause, I mean me, shaking a leg at the strip club tonight. Mama needs to get some excitement." She wiggled her eyebrows.
Kade pinched the bridge of his nose. "You’re going to spend Alpha Lucas’s money at a strip club?"
"Correction. My stipend. That man owes me more than enough for all the chaos he brought into my life." She tossed her curls over one shoulder dramatically. "Besides, it’s girls’ night. I need glitter, noise, and one over-oiled man in a cowboy hat. Don’t judge me."
Kade sighed and quietly closed the door behind him as she sauntered off.
He walked to the window and slid it open. A cool breeze greeted him. Above, the stars blinked lazily in the dark, and the moon hung low.
Kade rested his forearms on the windowsill. "Moon Goddess, you’re being funny, aren’t you?"
As if answering him, the wind shifted, and May was out in the yard, standing barefoot in the grass and completely unaware that she was wrecking his inner peace just by existing. She was picking up laundry from the line, humming a tune he couldn’t hear but somehow knew would be sweet. Every time she reached for a clothespin, her shirt would rise, revealing a sliver of skin above the waistband of her jeans. Her waist was delicate, her movements unhurried, and her hair swayed gently with the breeze like it had a mind of its own.