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“After I left his house, after Da died, I didn’t have much. I lived on the streets for a while. I got some food at shelters. But otherwise . . . sometimes I just ate what I could find.”
Fuck. He hated thinking about that.
“I’ve moved around a lot. I think I did it to protect myself from getting attached to anyone. But now . . . now I’ve found where I want to be. Where my home is. However, my protective instincts are in overdrive. I want to Daddy the fuck out of both of you.”
“Don’t even try,” Loki warned him.
He managed to grin. “I won’t. But you, baby girl . . .”
“I’m here for that,” she told him. “Whatever you need. I don’t like the idea that you’ve been holding back, trying to be something you’re not.”
“I didn’t want to scare you off. But I can’t . . . I have to protect you.”
“I get it.”
“Don’t know that you do,” he warned. “I need to know where you are. Who you’re with. At all times. When you leave the house, I want you to text me. When you get to where you’re going, same. And then when you’re on your way home.”
“I can do that.”
“Yeah?”
She nodded.
“Might smother you.”
“I’ll tell you if you do that,” she told him.
“You need to keep your cupboards stocked and throw out old food.”
“We can do that,” Loki said.
Isa squeezed him tight. “Daddy, you can lean on us too. You don’t always have to be the strong one. Okay?”
“What she said,” Loki added.
“I’ll try,” Remy told them both.
“For now, why don’t I get some eggs?” Loki suggested. “We can have an omelet for breakfast. I’ll put in a shopping order. Get it delivered.”
“They deliver?” Remy asked.
Loki grinned. “For me, they do.”
Right. So he owned part of the grocery store too?
Isa felt so bad.
This was her fault. Loki breaking last night. Remy this morning. Although they were both strong. They’d pieced themselves back together.
Still, there was glitter in her stomach.
“Baby girl?” Remy asked, cupping her chin. “Are you all right?”
“Glitter guilt,” she whispered.
He stared down at her. “You know what I need today?”
“No. What?” Whatever it was, she wanted to give it to him. She’d give him the world if she could. She hated thinking of him being alone all these years. They needed to help him settle in here. Starting with getting him to sit at the Daddy table at quiz night. She was certain they could do something so he could keep an eye on both of them while making friends.
