He's my prince

daddy's going to get himself a girlfriend

C H A P T E R  F O R T Y - O N E

Nolan groaned, turning away from the irritating sound of his cell as he turned over in bed. He had slept over at his daughter place since he'd been to drunk the night before to head home. The sound wasn't turning off and Nolan sighed, rolling onto his back and looking up at the ceiling as he blinked rapidly. Slowly, he sat up in the bed and reached over for the irritating phone.

It was an unknown number.

He usually didn't answer those but answered anyway since the person didn't seem keen on hanging up. "Hello?" His voice was deep, and husky from just waking up.

"Uhm, h-hi!" A voice squeaked and Nolan's eyes widened. It was Carter's old teacher from the night before. He wondered how she got her number before he let out a soft groan when everything came back to him. He'd said some stupid shit.

"Oh, hey, Lexi. I'm sorry about last night—"

"No, no, it's alright. I just called to see how your hangover's doing." She giggled and Nolan couldn't help but smile softly at the sound. She was cute. He didn't remember her being this shy when she was still Carter's teacher. But then Nolan remembered she'd been dating her ex-husband at the time.

"And you just reminded me that I have a hangover." Nolan groaned at act as if he was in pain and couldn't help the smirk that broke out onto his face when Lexi giggled. Again.

"Well, I see you're perfectly fine. You totally embarrassed yourself last night but don't worry, I found it cute—" And then there was an awkward silence as if Lexi couldn't believe she'd just said that.

Nolan chuckled, "Cute? What about it did you find cute? The hot teacher part or the cockblocking..." Nolan tried off, his eyes darting up to the bedroom door when it slowly opened and Carter peered in to probably check up him. When she saw him on the cell and a smile broke out onto her face when she heard what her father had been talking about. She pusher open the door before silently screaming while she jumped up and down. Nolan rolled his eyes, shooing her away. His daughter giggled, before running out of the room to tell Miles.

"Nolan?"

"Sorry, I was just—" before he could say something, Miles came running into the room and his face broke out into a wicked grin. Before he lowered his hands and thrust into it, laughing when Nolan grabbed a pillow from behind him, throwing it at the boy who humped the air.

"Are you busy? I'm sorry if I was bothering you—" Nolan eyes widened and immediately shook his head.

"No, it's ok." He shot the boy a glare before speaking into the phone, "How about we meet up later?"

Lexi gasped before she muttered out a shy yes. Carter, who joined the party couldn't help the squeal that left her mouth as she lunged at her father, who hung up the cell. "Daddy's going to get himself a girlfriend."

Nolan rolled his eyes but couldn't help the grin that took over his face.

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He didn't know what he was doing. He'd never gone on a date with someone who wasn't...famous? Nolan didn't know how to phrase it. He'd only ever 'gone out' with models, actors, etc. People who were well known and Lexi Peterson was not well known. She was a sexy little elementary school teacher who lived a normal life.

Before he could overthink it, he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned around, a smile breaking out onto his face at the sight of the short woman. She was even shorter than Carter. Her dark brown hair was tied into a ponytail, showing off all her sharp and pretty features. She didn't have much makeup on except for lipstick, blush, and mascara. Nolan sighed softly, this woman was beautiful.