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Dawn shakes her head, yes and Tiffany comes swimming over in her tube. “Daddy, I need to pee.” Of course, she does.
“Get out and I’ll take you.”
She shakes her head no. “No, you’re a boy.”
I chuckle and get up. “I am, but I’m your dad so it’s alright. I did teach you how to use the potty, remember?”
She gets out of the pool and runs over to me. “Can McKinley bring me?”
“No, she just got here,” I say.
“Of course, I can bring her.” She jumps up and grabs her hand. “Come on beautiful girl.”
I smile watching them walk away and she turns her head to look at me. I mouth ‘thank you’ and she gives me a sweet smile. Damn, this girl is everything to me.
The day has turned to night and both girls are passed out on the couch. Kallie, Jax, Blake, London, McKinley, and I are sitting out back enjoying the cool night air.
“Braden, you need to nip this shit. Talk to your lawyer and get those girls away from her,” Kallie says, sipping on her beer.
“I know Kallie, but I’m not going to do anything while they are here. When they go home, I’ll take care of it.”
The longer the day went on, the more I realized I made a big deal out of nothing. She’s always going to try to get a rise out of me, that’s just the way things are. Now, I wish I never said anything about it because it’s all everyone is talking about. Especially, Kallie, she’s more pissed than I was.
“Good, because I swear to God if she thinks she’s taking those girls away, I will go there myself and kick her ass,” she says, getting a bit loud.
I chuckle as Jax wraps his arms around her. “Kallie, relax. No one is going to take them anywhere,” I say and adjust McKinley who is sitting on my lap.
“He’s right, but just in case, Kallie I’ll go with you,” McKinley says, and they high five across the table. Unreal.
“Anyway, a different subject, please. I’m sick of talking about her,” I say, kissing McKinley’s shoulder.
“I’ve got another question,” Kallie says, and I can hear the slur of her words. She’s trashed.
“Maybe we should go,” Jax says.
“Not yet,” she says, standing up. “Braden, why are you hiding your relationship with McKinley? I mean fuck Sarah and what she thinks. McKinley is amazing and you are hiding her away from the girls like she’s your sex toy. I’m going to tell them daddy has a girlfriend.”
Jax jumps up faster than I can and grabs her. “Stop it. That is your brother’s business,” he says, wrapping his arm around her.
I, on the other hand, see red. I kiss McKinley and stand up. “Kallie, I love you and I know you are drunk, but you are so out of line right now. I expect you to respect my decisions, just like I respect yours. And let’s not forget you hid Jax away for a long time, so don’t fucking judge me for doing what I feel is in the best interests of my girls.”
McKinley comes over and wraps her a
rms around me, but I am still pissed and watching Kallie.
“Relax, it’s just us here. No one is judging anyone. If I’m fine with it, it shouldn’t matter. Right?” I still don’t say anything, and she says it louder, “Right Braden?”
I finally look down at her and nod my head. “Right.” I kiss her lips and pull her in for a hug. “I’m taking the girls home. I’ll talk to you tomorrow.”
Even though they are all telling me to wait, I just go into the house and get the girls. I pick them both up and hope I don’t wake them. I don’t until I get them into the truck. Tiffany starts crying and Dawn is complaining about how tired she is. The ride home, needless to say, sucks. Thankfully once we get there and I put them in bed, they both just roll over and fall back to sleep.
I go out onto the deck and sit down. I feel bad for snapping at Kallie, but she just said out loud what I was thinking. I do feel like I’m hiding McKinley. Sneaking in a kiss here and there when we were alone. A nonchalant touch when we walked by each other. It was awful and once the girls fell asleep, I was all over her.
I drop my head into my hands and blow out a breath. I’m such an asshole and not used to having my emotions all over the place like this. The thing is when the girls are here all I worry about is the custody case. Now that I’m with McKinley, I guess not having her here is fucking with me.
“Hey.” I snap my head up and nearly fall out of my seat when I see McKinley standing there.
“Hey.” I get up and grab her, holding her close. “I’m sorry. I’m all over the place today. I shouldn’t have left you like that.”
