Chapter 12 Jessica I blew a wayward hair out of my eyes and reached into the toilet, sponge clutched in my rubber-gloved hand. The final chore of my Saturday morning before sitting down to my bills and a near worthless checkbook. Blue’s Clues’s theme song drifted in through the bathroom door. I’d left Cassie on her secondhand Dora chair, a plastic cup of fishies in hand while I finished scrubbing the bathroom. Heaving a sigh, I allowed la-la land to take over my mind as I’d done all week long since my mommy’s night out. It had been eight days since my date with Reid, too many hours to calculate since I’d climaxed from his fingers alone, but I couldn’t stop thinking about him. A shiver rippled over my skin, making goose bumps rise along my arms. While Reid hadn’t pushed for full-on s*