Lennon Carter is a single mom of a 3-year-old son, Beckett.
Harry Styles is a single dad of a 2-year-old son, Arlo, and a 4-year-old daughter, Aden.
They both decide to take their kids on a family vacation to Hawaii.
When they cross paths Lennon can...
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I woke up to a hand brushing through my hair.
Lennon is still here.
I open my eyes to see her in the same position as last night, but now our legs are intertwined. My arms are still around her tightly like they were when we fell asleep last night.
Last night was one of the best nights of my life. Lennon is amazing. I never thought that I'd feel this way about someone so quickly after the divorce.
I like her a lot. I can't believe I'm admitting it to myself already, but I do.
I really really like her.
She makes me feel more relaxed than I have in six months. Being with her is easy. It's never been this easy with someone. I didn't know it could be this easy with someone.
We've spent over twelve hours with each other by now and I can't get enough of her.
And when we got to the room last night we had the best sex I've ever had. Neither of us were planning on it going that far, but I don't regret it and I hope she doesn't either. It's like she was made for me.
"Good morning, sleepyhead," Lennon says breaking me from my thoughts.
"Morning, sweet girl. How'd you sleep?" Her hand continues brushing through my hair as I move my arm laying overtop of her waist to brush her hair behind her ear.
"Good," she smiles up at me. "Really good."
"Good. What time is it? When do you need to be back to the little one?" I ask hoping we still have a while with each other.
She moves to loosen from my hold so that she can reach to the nightstand on her side of the bed and grab her phone. She grabs it and moves back into my arms in the same position we were in before and checks the time on her phone.
"It's 9:25. I don't know what time Em is expecting me back, but they probably won't wake up for another hour. Em likes her sleep." She tells me.
I might get to spend another hour with her.
"Would you want to go get breakfast? We can go to that café? I took Aden and Arlo there yesterday for breakfast and they loved it. If you want to get back to Emery and Beckett that's okay, too. I know the little guy will miss you." I was really hoping she'd choose the former, but I would completely understand if she just wanted to get back to her room.
"I'd love to. Em's not really expecting me back for a while to be honest. She'd probably be fine if I stayed here all day," she said it with a lighthearted laugh as a joke, but god I wanted her to be serious.
Dane would never let me hear the end of it if he knew that thought had crossed my mind. I was going to have to talk to him later about all of this. It's time for him to be the advice giver I guess.
"Is the café okay or would you rather do something else? And I can drop you off at your room after we're done eating if you'd like." I tell her.
I always wanted control with Shannon. It made me feel needed when she listened to me. Maybe I was subconsciously scared she'd leave me, but I felt like she would do anything for me. That ended up not being the case, though and it fucked me up more than I'd like to admit.
