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Bash pulls back, his eyes wide.
“You want me to stay the night here?”
“Mhm. All night. Think of all the cuddle time you can get.”
His body slams into mine, knocking me back onto the couch as he kisses me passionately.
Who knows how long we make out before Jake comes running back in.
“Ewwww! You two smooch?!”
Bash and I dissolve into laughter, pulling apart.
“We sure do, kiddo. Do you mind if I kiss your mom?”
“No,” he answers with the sweet honesty of children. “If you kiss her, does that mean you can be my daddy?”
I freeze, staring at Bash in horror. He’s the first to recover, though.
“That’s not up to me, I’m afraid. That’s your mom’s decision.”
Jake rounds on me with the patented puppy dog face he knows I can’t resist.
“Pleeeeeease, Mom?”
“It’s not that simple, chi?kší.”
“Ugh, why do grown-ups make everything so difficult?!”
Bash chokes back his chuckle while I gape at my son.
“Because grown-up things are complicated!”
His gorgeous brown gaze, so like my own, stares at me with pity.
Pity.
“Mom, do you love Bash?”
Suddenly, the temperature in the room shoots up a thousand degrees.
It’s one thing to confess my true feelings to Bash, but another to talk about it with my baby.
“I, ah, well you see—”
“Yes or no, Mom?”
Bash smirks. “He definitely gets his bluntness from you.”
I glare at the Boggart before deciding what to do.
Lie—the very thing I’ve always told Jake not to do—or be honest and lay my heart out.
My boss looks at me, hope and a touch of wistfulness in his gaze, and I couldn’t lie if I wanted to.
“Yes, I love him. Are you happy?”
Jake ignores my question and turns to Bash to ask his own.
