Justice For Juniper (Tatienne Richard) novel Chapter 137

Pouting Part I

Juniper grumbled as Phineas traced patterns in her shoulder softly encouraging her to wake up.

“Come on now, it’s time to get up. Mama Maeve should be here soon.”

She pouted, “I’m sleepy.”

“You are. I’m sure your mama is going to be even more exhausted considering she flew the red eye.”

“No, she didn’t. It was the middle of the night when she called me.”

Phineas chuckled, “Juniper, you were so discombobulated last night with Fermín’s introduction that none of us corrected you, but you were changing time backwards.”

“What?”

“You were messaging your mother in the dead of the afternoon back home. They’re behind us in time, not ahead.”

“But she took so long to answer and I presumed she was sleeping.”

“We went with it because it was kind of cute to see how confused you were getting over everything with the notion your father was the neighbor of Beni’s grandparents.”

“But Mama didn’t correct me either.”

“I don’t think she realized what you were saying. Why do you think Fermín was going to be able to get her a passport within the hour? It was the middle of the day back home.”

“Ugh,” she groaned and smacked her head off his chest relishing the grunt he made as if it hurt. “Now I feel like a stupid airhead.”

“Why?”

“I kept talking about it over and over. It’s one a.m. It’s two a.m.. You all knew and now I feel like an idiot.”

“You were a woman who was trying to play it cool because you were excited and it was cute.”

She pouted as she looked around the bed, “where’s Beni and Adil?”

“They both went downstairs already. Beni is getting coffee on, and Adil is making sure the guest room on the main floor is ready for your mom when she gets here.”

“She’s staying with us?” she blinked in confusion.

“Hey,” he rolled over her, pressing her into the mattress with his weight. “Sweetheart, you are never going to be lonely. Not ever. We love you very much for that. We’ve all, the three of us, have talked extensively about making sure you are loved and secure but also that we are loved and secure. We want dinner together every evening if possible. We want to sleep in the same bed at a reasonable hour every night so we can actually get sleep because it takes us hours to be done with you. We want lazy Sunday mornings and date nights on Friday night. Adil made a very good point the other day.”

“Which point?”

“The one where he said he’s already got more money than he’ll ever need so all he wants to do now are the things which makes him happy. We’re the same. We don’t need to work sixteen–hour days every day, sweetheart. We will work as needed and there will be projects, cases, or files we need to work on which will require us to be burning the candles at both ends but those won’t be the norm. We’re also going to take trips like this,” he stroked the back of his knuckles up her cheek, “for us to reconnect when things do get busy. We don’t want you thinking time with us is a luxury or a treat. It’s going to be the norm.”

“Really?”

“Always, and forever, Juniper. We love you. We love you so much and there is far more possibility of you screaming at us to give you space than us leaving you alone for too long.”

“Do you promise?”

“I absolutely promise.”

“I still don’t want my mother in our love nest.”

“Juniper.” He laughed. “Do you want me to find her a hotel room?”

“No.” she pursed her lips with annoyance. “We’ll just have to be quiet when we have sex and only in the bedroom.”