Coming Home

As he ate he couldn't help but wonder why someone as beautiful and classy as Ann hadn't been snatched up by some rich eligible bachelor.

What kind of ass must her husband have been if she had to leave him? But if he was such an ass, why does he have custody of the kid?

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They came home from a long day with two passed out little boys. Dave helped get them in the house and let them sleep while Ann and Allie made dinner. Dave was able to get a lot of work done and Sunday would be finishing touches and clean up.

Dinner was a curry chicken dish, that wasn't too spicy, for the adults and Allie, and hot dogs and mac and cheese for the boys.

Ann opened a bottle of wine that Dave enjoyed, even though he wasn't a wine drinker normally. Ann wanted to loosen him up because she had plans for him that night.

Allie agreed to keep an eye on the boys during their camp out sleep over in the basement. Dave was slightly worried about them being alone, but Ann showed him the monitor app she had set up, through her security system, so they could keep an eye on them from upstairs.

"She's a big girl. She can handle them, Dad," Ann said as she opened the second bottle of wine.

"I know. It's just that it's a strange house. Davey isn't used to it."

"Take a look," she said handing him the iPad. "The boys are already asleep and Allie is watching a Rom/Com. Relax and enjoy yourself for a change. You deserve it."

Dave smiled shyly and changed the subject, "This is a good wine. I'm not much of a wine guy but I know it's a Cabernet. It's the one kind of wine that I like."

"Yes, very good tastebuds. It's a little known Washington vineyard I own a piece of. We produce only a couple hundred cases of this particular wine each year."

"You own a vineyard?"

"Just a piece," she said with a smile. "I figured it was a safer pick. Most men like bolder wines that are less fruit forward."

"Uh sure," he said making her giggle.

"Ann, without getting too personal, how come you're still single?"

She smiled at his interest and answered, "Well, it's my choice. I date some, but I haven't been in a serious relationship since I moved back from New York a couple years ago. I focus mostly on work and my son."

"Do you have a real job or just own pieces of businesses?"

"Well, I like to think that owning pieces of businesses is a real job. It certainly keeps me busy enough," she said dryly.

"Sorry, I didn't mean it the way it sounded."

"I know. I'm messing with you. My father is pretty wealthy and set me up with a trust, much like your ex has. I got control of it after college though. I didn't touch it for a few years, but it is large enough that I used it as collateral to buy the apartment complex. I reinvest the profits from that into paying the loan down, which frees up more money to buy other things. My ex is a genius with money and I let him take over the management of it last year. He's made quite a tidy profit for me."

"Wait, you gave him control after your divorce?"

"Oh yeah. He handles my father's money too. That's how I met him. My ex doesn't have a bad bone in his body. He would never screw me over. I trust him completely."

"Wow."

"Well, that's a sad story for a different day."

"Tell me why you're still single, Mister. I think my friend Carrie was ready to lick the crumbs off of your chin at Lou's, when we ran into you."

"I seriously doubt that. Why would anyone want me. I'm a divorced single dad that up until I met you and you felt sorry for me couldn't even feed my kids."

"Don't you dare do that to yourself. I never once felt sorry for you. I recognized a man worth investing in, and I am a pretty good judge of investments. You for a short moment in time, needed help and I was glad to be able to do it."

"Well, I cant thank you enough. I'm getting beat. I'm gonna shower and go to bed if you don't mind."

"No, of course not." They stood up and she kissed his cheek and hugged him.

"You're a good man and a great father, Dave. Never forget that. It's more valuable to someone like me than any amount of money."

He smiled and said, "Good night."

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He was asleep in bed when the sound of the shower in the adjoining bathroom turning on woke him.

'Crap,' he thought. 'I forgot she uses this one. It was rude to not let her go first.'

After awhile the shower stopped and as Ann dried off she thought, 'Be subtle. Don't be obvious.'

She wrapped the towel around her and tucked it, in that way that only women know how to do, and walked into the room. The towel snagged on the door jamb and she shrieked as it fell to the floor.

"Shit," she said as he turned on the light.

"Oh crap," he said as he saw her dart out of the room bare assed.

He got up and walked across the hall to her room. He waited a minute for her to get dressed and he knocked on the door.

She answered wearing a robe and was crying. He took her into his arms and held her. "I'm sorry I upset you. I didn't know what happened."

"I know. It's my fault. I was being a stupid girl trying to give you a small hint of my interest in you, so I didn't get dressed before I left the bathroom. I didn't expect the towel to snag on the door."

He froze for a second registering what she said. "You're interested in me?"

She looked him in the eyes and said, "Oh, my dear man yes, I am very interested, but I know you're still hurting and I don't want to push you too far too fast. I messed it all up."

He laughed and as she was turning away, he pulled her to him again but this time kissed her. He kissed her lips with all of the feeling he could muster. She returned his kiss with vigor.

After a few precious minutes of making out, she said, "Please take me to bed."

He lifted her up and closed the door with his foot. Walking into her room he laid her on the king size bed and returned to kissing her. As he danced with her tongue his hands moved to her firm breasts. Taking a handful he squeezed softly while stroking her diamond hard nipple with his thumb. She moaned into his mouth enjoying his touch, enjoying his warmth. She felt his rock hard shaft press against her and longed for him to make love to her.

As he massaged her breasts he pulled away from their lovers kiss. He opened her silky robe and slid down her body. He was hungry for her and didn't want to waste time savoring her body as he normally would, he had to taste her womanhood.

He spread her dripping wet lips with his thumbs and attacked her clit ravenously. Her aroma was intoxicating. Her taste was addicting. Licking down to her opening he tongued as deeply as he could. Licking and sucking and slurping her sweet juices he returned to her sweet spot to drive her orgasm home. His fingers probed her walls searching for the spot that would set her off. He felt her tense up and knew he found it. Stroking and pressing while licking and sucking, her body shook from the orgasm that erupted. She cried out in pleasure while pulling his head into her as deep as he could stand it. With a final shiver she let him go, reveling in the aftershocks of his talent.

She pulled him up to kiss her and he pulled back. "No, let me get a washcloth," remembering that his ex, the bitch, never would kiss him after he went down on her.

Ann said, "I don't care," and pulled him in and kissed him feverishly.

Sitting up and sliding towards the headboard, he followed. Not by choice, but because her hand wouldn't let go of his nine inch member.

She finally caught her breath and said, "I badly want to suck you and return the favor, but It's been a while for me. I don't want to disappoint you."

He smiled and kissed her. "Ann you don't ever have to feel like you have to do anything or fear anything with me. If you want to suck me, suck me. If you want to make love to me, make love to me. Know this though, I don't fuck. It's just not in me to ram it into you without the feeling behind it. Don't get me wrong, if you want it hard and fast I will give you that, but's it's not a fuck. If we make love tonight, I won't be looking at this as a one night stand. I'll expect to move forward towards something. If it works out, it works out, but please don't hurt me or my family. I may be able to take it, but Allie couldn't. She loves you."

"Dear man, you're in my bed because I wanted to take the next step towards something, whatever it turns out to be with you. I want you badly and now if you'll excuse me, that's enough talk."

She slid down and stroked his shaft while licking his large balls. Taking each into her mouth she tested his pain threshold by sucking deeply one at a time. Once she found his limits she licked his shaft slowly savoring the taste of his manhood, working her way to the top. She enjoyed his precum and licked every drop. Taking a deep breath she wrapped her lips around his mushroom shaped head.

The head was slightly smaller in diameter than his hard shaft, and she thought that was something quirky as she lowered her mouth carefully holding back her teeth. She made it a third of the way down before she felt it was as far as she could go due to his thickness. Wondering how she could ever get it into her pussy, she stroked him and twisted her hand while moving up and down along his spit slickened tool.

After a few brief moments he said, "Baby I'm close."

She moaned and stroked faster. Pulling her head off she told him, "Give it to me lover. I want every drop."

It only took a moment once she wrapped her lips around the head before he unloaded stream after stream into her hot, willing mouth.

Just as she released him and licked her lips, they heard Davey asking for daddy on the monitor app.

They laughed together at the pain of parenthood, as they watched Allie sooth him as they got dressed. They made their way to the basement just as Allie was walking up with him. He wasn't crying. He was just unfamiliar with the basement. He gave Dave and Ann hugs and kisses and let Allie take him back down.

They went back up together and kissed goodnight at her door. "Until, next time," she said with one last kiss and they both retreated to their rooms.

Ann tossed and turned for a long while, desperate to have Dave hold her. She walked across the hall and opened the door to the guest room. Closing it and locking it, she took off her night gown and pulled the blanket off of him.

She took his member into her hand and smiled as it began to get hard. Licking it up and down until it reached full hardness she then straddled her sleeping lover's hips and guided his rock hard shaft into her dripping wet tunnel. He was bigger than she'd ever had before and she gasped when it entered her.

Of course Dave woke up and realized what was happening. He reached for her breasts and tweaked her nipples. No words were spoken as Ann got used to his size and began to rock back and forth.

Ann cried out in orgasm as Dave was slowly building to his. He rolled her over onto her back without pulling out and kissed her tenderly. He drove in and out slowly driving his pelvis into her clit, circling his hips as he bottomed out.

"Oh yes," Ann cried out as he made love to her slowly. He then took his thumb and rubbed her clit as he began to move his hips faster. "Yes baby yes! Like that don't stop!"

As she shook from her orgasm, her vaginal walls pulsed and squeezed him, milking his tool. "Cum for me baby, fill me up," she said as he picked up even more speed.

"So close, ugh, yes I'm cumming" Dave growled.

After erupting into her he collapsed on top of her and kissed her feverishly. Rolling to his side he pulled her into him and fell asleep.

She giggled and sighed, "Men!"

She awoke in the early light and kissed her man softly on his lips. "Better get your jammies on before the kids wake up. I'm gonna start breakfast."

He smiled and agreed.

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Davey and JR snuck into the dimly lit room with all of the stealth giggling 4 and 5 year olds can muster. As they slowly executed their plan of tickling Dave awake, they jumped back when Dave suddenly awoke and grabbed them. He turned the tables on the boys and tickled them until one of them said the magic words that stop all adults from tickling a child, "Stop, I have to pee!"

Davey said, "Miss Ann says, 'Get up sleepyhead'."

"Okay, buddy. What did you make me."

"I didn't make it silly. Her and Allie did."

"Oh boy, let's dig in before the girls eat it all."

Scooping the two boys up into a fireman's carry on each shoulder, he made his way to the kitchen.

"Mmm, smells great in here ladies."

"We made you bacon, Daddy," said Allie with delight.

"Well, I thought my blueberry pancakes were the stars of the show," Ann chimed in with a mock frown.

"JR and Davey seem to like the chocolate chip ones," Allie said smiling and sticking her tongue out at the messy boys with syrup on their chins.

Dave couldn't help but smile as he ate his breakfast, enjoying his kids getting along so well with Ann and her son. He frowned though as he wondered, 'Could a women like her really like him; a maintenance man?'

At that moment Ann was watching him, enjoying his smile, then she caught the brief frown.

She got up and grabbed his hand pulling him up. She didn't say a word, she just pulled his head down for a kiss. Kid friendly, but still passionate enough to get her point across. The boys giggled and Allie said, "About time," as their lips parted.

"You taste like bacon flavored syrup." Ann said with a loving tease.

"Yeah, but you taste like girl cooties, ew!" He retorted, making the boys laugh louder and Allie cry out, "Daddy!"

She whacked him with a nearby dish towel and said, "Get to work, Mister!"

He held up his hands in mock surrender, and retreated upstairs to get the shower finished.

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Dave finished up the cleanup and called down to Ann for inspection.

"Wow, it turned out great. I'm really impressed, you do great work."

"Thanks," he answered. He was showing her how the control panel worked, when she cut him off.

"Why don't you come by next week for another sleepover and show me how it works while we use it together?" She kissed him, deeply answering one of his unasked questions. 'Will she change her mind?'

"I'd like that, but are you sure you want to waste your time on me, Ann? I can walk away right now with a fond memory and..."

"Stop it!" She snapped, cutting him off. "I promise you that I won't do anything to hurt you. I care too much for you and your children to be so callous. Meet me half way though. You wonder why I could want a wonderful man and father like you, while I'm deathly afraid that you'll hate me once you hear my story."

"I doubt that very much. You've got too big a heart."

"Well, it took some remodeling to get it where it is. I've got to get JR back to his father's. Will you have dinner with me Friday?"

"Sure. How about pizza? Since it will technically be our first date, it's fitting it should be where you balled me out for being an ass."

"Okay, call me later tonight please?"

"Okay. After the kids go to bed."

They kissed again and made their goodbyes.

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Ann steeled herself to tell Dave her story. She felt that doing it over the phone would be too cowardly, so she asked if she could come over.

The kids were asleep and she and Dave were sitting in the living room in silence, with Ann laying in Dave's embrace, waiting for the right words to come.

She began, "I was wild in college. No one can say that I didn't sow my oats. I did a lot of things that I'm not proud of now, but it is what it was. When I came home from school, my parents introduced me to my ex-husband John. (Authors note: that story is told in I finally found my way)

He was my dad's money manager, young, successful, good looking and rich, he had it all. I was smitten from the beginning.

John is an old soul. More mature than his age, when we got married he was ready to start a family. I was not. I didn't think I would ever want kids. Between he and my mother putting pressure on me to have children, I snapped. I left John, filed for divorce and moved to New York with a co-worker to start fresh. He didn't want kids, but certainly wanted me.

As fate would have it, when I left I was pregnant but didn't know it. I had never cheated on John so I knew it was his child and decided to have the baby. I had JR, came home to my parents and left him with them to give to John to raise. I didn't want him. So you see? I'm a monster no better than your ex." Dave didn't respond.

"John and my parents hated me so much for leaving that they wouldn't take my calls for me to tell them I was pregnant. I had a foolish idea that I couldn't leave that kind of shocking news in a voicemail so they had no idea of what was waiting for them when I rang their bell that night.

Everyday, I missed my baby, my old life. I went to therapy to try to understand and get help for what I did; for abandoning my husband and then abandoning my child. My boyfriend in New York left me and I slowly rebuilt myself.

I came home permanently to make peace with my parents and John. To beg John to allow me to see JR. John had moved on and replaced me at that point, so that option of us getting back together was gone for me. (Authors note: Read Who wants to be lonely for John's story)

John eventually gave me back my parental rights and allowed me into JR's life. It was the greatest gift I ever received. He's such a great man and father, I can never repay his kindness to me when he could have told me to go blow and never let me see JR again.

You've got the same character John and my father have. You don't have the money they have, but that isn't a defining characteristic to me." She tapped his chest and continued, "This is your defining characteristic. Your heart. I could see it the day I met you. I've seen it every day I've seen you since. You have a tremendous capacity to love."

She pulled into his chest sobbing and said quietly, "I want you to love me so badly."

Dave sat in silence holding her. Taking in her failures, her rebirth. Far from a perfect woman, she didn't seem like a monster to him. He saw the love she had for her son first hand. He saw the love she had for his kids in her actions and words. Maybe she being such a broken soul would be the door he needed to her heart.

And then she snored. Dave chuckled.

Before Dave and Ann woke up, little Davey grabbed the TV remote and went to sit in his spot on the couch. He saw his daddy sleeping sitting up and Miss Ann sleeping cuddled into his daddy. He shrugged, smiled and laid his head on Miss Ann's lap to watch Handy Manny.

When Dave woke up he felt Ann still in his arms, his chest soaked from her tears. Seeing the TV on to cartoons he realized Davey had woken up at some point and laid on the couch with them.

"He fell back asleep," she said. "Are we okay Dave? Can you forgive me?

"Sweetie, you don't need my forgiveness, and it sounds like you already got John's and your parents' forgiveness. It seems like I need you as much as you need me. What's say we help each other and see where it goes."

She kissed him and laughed when Allie came in the room and said, "Hey! No one told me there was snuggles in here."

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Six months after that night, Ann and Dave were enjoying coffee on her patio on a beautiful Saturday morning. Dave and family has just moved in and were settling into a new familial order. They all met Ann's parents who liked Dave and loved his children who would hopefully soon be called their grandkids. Dave and John got along well and John trusted Dave with JR.

Dave was going to ask Ann to marry him soon, not doubting her ability to love him anymore. It was at her urging he reopened the remodeling business and she even offered to help start it up, but he declined. He decided to build slowly and within his means with little debt.