*Axle's POV*When I get back from grabbing my beer, I’m a little surprised when she wraps her arms aroundme. Don’t get me wrong, neither of us are opposed to PDA at school and elsewhere but I kind of expected her to be more stand off-ish around my parents. She did look pretty pale earlier and she turned down a beer. But she said she was fine. I make a mental note to ask her about it later.I see Theo swimming up beside her and she pulls away and looks at him as he places a handon her side and says, “You’re it!”“What?!” She says dramatically. “Not for long!” She says and ducks lower into the water, swimming behind him at a deliberately slow pace. When she gets close to where Jameson is, she shoots her hand out to hit him in the arm and says, “You’re it!” and dashes sideways before he can react. “Hey! Rude!”He darts after her but she’s fast. She heads my

*Six's POV*“Just forget about what?” Axel's voice pierces through me and I look at Jack, begging him not to say anything. “Dad? What are you doing here?”“I came because of Six," he says as though it's the most obvious thing in the world.Confusion takes over Axle’s face as I say, “Jack, don’t do this!”“Long before you were in the picture she was mine!” He growls out.“That’s not true! I was never yours!” I yell but he keeps going, “I paid her to get naked and touch herself for me on camera. And she willingly obliged. She’s been mine for so long I can’t even think about anyone else. I didn’t know who she was until you brought her over, but now, I have to have her. Your mother never satisfied me the way she does and I had never even seen her in person before Sunday!”“Six, is this true?”I can’t bring my

*Axle's POV*The look of confusion on my mother’s face tells me she still hasn’t figured it out. “Who?”“My fucking girlfriend! Your husband paid my underage girlfriend to strip for him on camera! Multiple times!”“I didn’t know it was her until last weekend and then she blocked me!” he yells.“You sure as hell knew who she was when you tried to stake your claim and get her to leave me for you an hour ago!”“What?!” Jameson and my mom say at the same time. I’m surprised when he doesn’t try to deny it and even more surprised that he doesn’t even look like he feels guilty about it. My mom looks at him and slaps him across the face.“You piece of shit!” She yells and stands up off the bed.I see Jameson clench and unclench his fists as his face heats up. I can tell he’s trying to stophimself from hitting him when someth

*Six's POV*When I make it downstairs, I find Axle leaning up against his car. I walk over to him and he stands up straight and he says, “Look, let me just start by saying that obviously I’m not happyabout seeing you with Jordan.” I go to cut him off but he says, "Just let me finish. I get it, I broke your heart and you needed someone. Literally anybody else would have been better, but I’m gonna let it go because this whole thing was my fault. I was pissed off at the whole situation and I took it out on you. I wasn’t thinking rationally. That was just too much information to process at once for me and I handled it like shit, and it took half a bottle of whiskey and a dose of reality check from a bartender of all people but I get it and I should have let you explain instead of just leaving you.”“Answer me this: If I had told you before the shit with your dad, would you have made mechoose between you and my job? Be h

*Six's POV*As I go to pull my shorts on, I notice a reddish-purple mark on my inner thigh. I turn my leg out to look at it. Are those teeth marks? Apparently he bit me harder than I thought.“Axle,” I whine at him. “Look what you did! I’m wearing shorts!”“So?”“So, your mother and brother are gonna see that!”“I still don’t see the issue. I’m sure they can guess what we were doing anyway. You're not exactly quiet,” he says with a wink.“Uuugh! Still! Just be more gentle next time!"He flashes me a grin and says, “You and I both know you don’t want me to be gentle.”I smile back and just roll my eyes because he’s right but I’m not gonna amdit to it out loud.“Alright Hannibal Lector, let’s go.”I take his hand and we walk downstairs to find Irene and Jameson in the kitchen.They