Chapter 21

Ray comes to her room to tuck Zaria in. “Mom is leaving next week, in the morning, right?”

“Yes,” Ray confirms. “But she is going to be back before you get home next weekend.”

“Then I think we should take a sick day,” she suggests. “You can stay home from work and I can stay here rather than return to school and we can play all day.”

“As much fun as that sounds, I have to work and you have to go to school,” he tells her. “We’ll have plenty of play time on the weekends that your mother is away.”

“But, Daddy,” she groans. “Please?”

Ray kisses the disappointed girl goodnight and heads toward the door, turning off the light but leaving the door ajar, just a little so that the light from the hall filters through.

Later, Zaria wakes up and heads to the bathroom down the hall. She hears conversation taking place from her parent’s room. Being curious, if not a little bit nosy, she creeps to their bedroom door. Putting her ear to it, she can just make out the muffled talk.

“Are you sure you don’t want me to finish you,” her mother is saying somewhat snidely. “After all, I got mine.”

“I’m sorry,” her father answers. “I’m not sure why I’m having so much trouble these days.”

“I wonder,” she mutters and Zaria almost doesn’t catch the snide comment. “I know that you’re under a bit of pressure. You haven’t cum in a month, at least not with me.”

“What does that mean?” Ray asks.

“Nothing,” her mother answers.

Silence follows and seconds later the lights go off. Zaria steps back from the door, running those words around in her head: You haven’t cum in a month. The girl smiles to herself. I make him cum all the time. He just doesn’t want to cum for you anymore. Zaria doesn’t even think twice about the rest of her mother’s words as she sneaks back to her room where she falls contently to sleep.