If Walls Could Talk

Nine

Skye slips from the bed careful to not wake the sleeping toddler beside her. Luckily Nika is the hardest sleeper she's ever met, not stirring in the slightest as Skye leaves the room. She glances up at the sound of rhythmic snoring, her eyes caught up on the tan man laying over the covers in the opposite room, only wearing briefs. His back rising and falling with each snore, his face half buried in the pillows. Tattoos on his arm standing out against his skin in the soft morning light. His ass rounded and firm looking, held tightly in the tight black Calvins.

Shaking herself after a minute, her eyes go wide as she realizes she's let her eyes wander over every curve of his body, marveling at the muscles in his arms and back. She cannot be ogling over her boss...

Carefully and quietly she pulls his bedroom door closed, to protect herself and to hopefully be able to keep Nika quiet so he can sleep off the hangover.

Filling the coffee pot with water she puts it on to warm while finding some instant oatmeal packets and making up two bowls for her and Nika. Adding water from the pot once it's boiling before refilling it for coffee.

"Skye?" Nika's sleepy voice reaches her as she finishes mixing the oatmeal, turning to see the little girl rubbing the sleep from her eyes.

"Good morning, Nika Joy. Want some breakfast?" She smiles.

Nika nods, wandering over to the little pile of blankets Skye had set up as a chair of sort for her at the coffee table.
Setting the bowl of oatmeal and a juice in front of Nika she curls up on the couch to eat her breakfast and coffee.

"Where's daddy?" Nika asks as she eats.

"He's sleeping. He was working really late. Should we go swimming after breakfast so we can let him sleep?" The little girls eyes light up at the word swim, her head nodding quickly. "Eat up, then we will get dressed and go up okay?"

Thirty minutes later Skye exits the hotel onto the roof, keeping a secure hold on Nika's hand as she tries to bolt for the waiting water. The pool space still empty except for one person half hidden behind a wall who looks to be talking on their phone.

"Hey, wait for Skye, miss Nika. We have to put on your life jacket so you are safe okay?" Skye directs the little girl as she tosses their things onto an open chair.

"Water!" Nika grins, trying yet again to escape.

"Nika Joy, you look at Skye right now." An authoritative tone comes out suddenly, startling the small girl and effectively grabbing her attention.

"You are not big enough to go in the water without Skye, okay? Can you take off your sandals and I'll help you put on your life jacket. Then we can go to the water together okay?"

"Okay." Nika finally sighs, obviously annoyed she has to wait another minute.

Laughing at the little girl Skye pulls her sundress over her head while Nika is seated and forcing the small sandals from her feet. Slipping the pink and purple life jacket around Nika's arms before buckling it and making sure it's tight.

"Can we go swim now please?" Nika begs.

"Yup. Now we can swim. But you have to be careful, okay?"

"I promise." Nika nods, accepting the hand Skye holds out for her.

Slipping off the edge into the waist deep water Skye helps Nika jump in after her. The small girl giggling excitedly as she begins to splash around in the water.

"Nika, can you blow bubbles in the water like Skye?" She asks the little girl, lowering her face and blowing into the water to create a mass of bubbles.