Title: Sleeper
Author: Kayley Loring
Genre: Contemporary Romance
SHANE MILLER SLEEP DIARY:
Went to bed at: Late.
How long it took to fall asleep: Forever. I have insomnia. Duh.
Number of caffeinated beverages you had consumed: Zero. Thanks for advising me to quit!
My stress level is off the charts.
I can’t sleep right on a normal day, and lately my days are filled with the best kind of chaos.
My ex-wife and husband number two are filming in Poland for three months,
so I’m turning down movie parts to focus on the most important role of my life—
impossibly charming and somewhat capable young single dad.
My son won’t stop asking questions.
My daughter won’t brush her teeth unless I sing her showtunes.
Our regular nanny quit.
The only person I could trust to hire as a temp nanny is my best friend’s sister.
If Mary Poppins and Bill Murray had a baby it would be Willa.
Fresh out of grad school and beautifully weird.
She hates my movies, and my kids adore her.
I couldn’t sleep last night because she wasn’t here.
Turns out I can’t sleep unless she’s in my house now.
Turns out she’s what’s been missing from my life all along.
If my friend had any idea what I want to do to his gorgeous troublemaker of a sister,
he would smother me with a pillow.
The chances of us succeeding as a couple are about as good as that little indie movie
that I made being a huge hit.
But it’s a chance I’m going to take.
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Willa ~
Let me apologize again for setting off the smoke detector earlier. I was trying to let you sleep in, and things were looking good in the pancake department but then there was bacon and the twins got up. Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to let the nanny take the day off. Or maybe we should have told her to take the kids with her. We are both reasonably intelligent people—why did we not think of this?
Also, I want to point out that Lucky was the one who left that silent but deadly gift for you in the bedroom. Obviously, I didn’t get to be a beloved world-famous actor without knowing how to hold in farts, but I haven’t gotten around to teaching that particular skill to my son yet. Who’s got two thumbs, incredibly tight butt cheeks and isn’t ashamed of throwing his child under the bus to look cool to his wife? This guy.
How do you like your first V-day as a married lady so far?!
There’s something I’ve been meaning to tell you since the day I proposed to you. I kept waiting for the right time to say it, and then…I forgot. In my defense, there are always twintastic reasons for this. But also, there are so many things that I want to tell you and if I let them all out you wouldn’t be able to walk because I would constantly be doing filthy things to you to make you forget the cheesy things I just said.
But here it is: That first time I met you on the That’s So Wizard set, when I took your hand to help you up from the floor, I had a vision. It wasn’t something that I could see, exactly, but a picture of a feeling. If that makes any sense. Just a flash of what it would be like to be married with kids someday. It’s not something I had ever felt or thought about before then, but I liked it. I never had that feeling with M., but it came to me again as soon as I introduced you to the kids.
I could buy you all the gold heart necklaces in the world and it still wouldn’t be enough to symbolize how much you mean to me and Summer and Lucky. But I’d like to think that you don’t need that kind of reminder of how we feel about you anymore. Or at least that you’re ready to move on to some other kind of necklace.
Thank you for making this house a home and for continuing to inspire me to play the part of a husband and father who knows what the fuck he’s doing. You’re a good friend to all of us. Don’t tell your brother, but I’ve always secretly wanted a best friend that I could shower with. You are the best, most, prettiest, funniest, smartest, sexiest, wifey-est friend I’ve ever had. And you smell better than anyone I have ever known.
I love you in all the ways a man can love a woman, and more and more each day,
Shane
P.S. In case it isn’t obvious—as soon as you’re done eating your breakfast in bed, I’m locking the kids out of the room and going to town on your lady parts.
P.P.S. The chocolate smear on this letter is courtesy of your adorable stepson. I don’t have time to write out another copy, but I definitely have time to smear chocolate on you later.
P.P.P.S. There were originally 125 roses in the accompanying arrangement, but your delightful stepdaughter decided that was too many, so enjoy your bouquet of 69 roses. She had left 70 but I decided to remove one. For symmetry 😉
Before writing steamy romantic comedy novels, Kayley Loring got her BFA in creative writing from a Canadian university and had a fifteen-year career as a screenwriter in Los Angeles (under a different name). She mostly wrote PG-13 family comedies that studios would pay her lots of money for and then never make into movies. In 2017 she decided to move to the Pacific Northwest and write about all the fun stuff that she wasn’t allowed to write about in those PG-13 scripts. Now she’s breathing cleaner air and writing dirtier words. It’s an adjustment that she’s happily getting used to.
I loved this Love Note. Thank you for sharing.
This love note from one of my favorite book characters was the cherry on top of one of my favorite books.
Loved it! Shane is the perfect sweet, funny and sexy kind of guy we’d all love to have!