Unexpected

Twelve

Knox's POV;

I knew instantly there was no way I would say no to anything she asked me - one look into those blue eyes and she had me - the second woman in my life who made me want to fall at her feet.
She had me - hook line and sinker after little more than a week I was invested in her, in us.
What I'd had with Evie's mother - maybe once upon a time I thought I was in love with her - maybe she believed she was in love with me too but how can anyone that young even begin to understand what love actually is.
Evie was love - that little girl had held my heart for the past 5 years - even before that. The moment her
Mother told me she was pregnant I loved her - when I saw her, when I held her for the first time, the first time she said Dadda - that was real love, is was solid and it filled you.

I'm also not that guy - she's told me about that guy - the one she's left behind - the one she's ran from, the one that had her but never really knew her.
I don't have the good family upbringing - I didn't have a mother and father who built me a home and raised us kids - supported us and taught us right from wrong.
My so called mother took off when I was 6 - left me and my older sister with my Dad.
He wasn't a bad guy - he just wasn't around. He worked and drank. He didn't care what we were doing or where we were at as long as it didn't involve coming home with a police escort.
My sister moved out with her boyfriend when she was barely 16 and he didn't even blink. He did tell me one night when he was readying himself to pass out on the lounge of our 3 bedroom home that he never wanted kids - that my Mother begged him for kids - so they  had my sister Jess - he then went on to tell me about how I was the one that blindsided him - he told me he had been very clear about not wanting anymore kids after Jess was born but then I came along. 6 years later my mother packed her shit and left one day while Jess and I were at school and Dad was working. She never cleaned us out or anything though - just took her own shit and disappeared. Haven't heard or seen from her since and honestly I couldn't care less if I never saw her again.
Dad lives not to far from me - still in the same house I grew up in - we check in once a week and sometimes he will meet up with me and Evie at the beach or park but that's the extent of our relationship.
Jess in a single mum - she has 2 kids both girls, she lives in a small 2 bedroom place around 10 minutes from us - she's a good Mum. She keeps a good relationship with her ex Bodie for the kids.

But this is the part where I could fuck this all up - I didn't have the so called normal upbringing nothing like I knew she had from conversations about her family. I also cannot even imagine how it would feel to be told at the age of 14 that your Dad wasn't your Dad - that your brothers weren't actually your brothers and that the person you'd considered to be your uncle was actually your Dad.
Everything I felt about this woman - every single thing she told me - the more I got to know her - the more I fell. And fuck me if I'm crazy but I was ready to fall harder - and I'm 100% certain she was too.

So that's how I knew, looking into those big blue eyes, her long black hair pulled off her face, her bottom blood red lip caught under her teeth as she waited for me to answer her - I knew I would do anything for her and right now she was asking me to hold her up - to be her strength while she walked through the doors of Knights Bar and Grill - while she confronted the man that had ran out on her so many times.
Truth was I knew Jackson Knight - it wasn't a big town and the mechanics I worked at was the best in town - I did all the work on his car, and to me - he had never been a bad guy, quite to opposite actually.

I brought my hand up to her cheek - her skin was like silk so smooth and soft and she lent into my touch - her eyes fluttering closed for just a moment before she met mine again.

"I am absolutely ready to walk through those doors with you. I have absolutely got your back baby, I'm right here ok"

This time she stood on her tippy toes, pressing her body flush against me as hands wrapped around my neck she dragged my head down so she could press her soft lips against mine, it wasn't a deep kiss, but I couldn't resist pushing just a little further just to touch her tongue with mine.

"I've never met anyone like you Knox Taylor"

I smiled wide at her

"And you never will again Mya Cage - I'm one of a kind baby"