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“Nah dad,” Miles mutters, not even throwing me a glance and my eyes go to Niall.
“What about you, ninja?”
Niall refuses to look at me, staring at his phone like he wants to be absorbed into whatever game it is that he’s playing and a flush spreads over his freckled cheeks and he shakes his head. Sighing, I close their door and continue down the hallway.
“Daphne?” I call and my agitation rises when she doesn’t answer. “Daphne!”
Damn it. What the hell is her problem?
“Girls, have you seen your mom?” I say when two of our girls pass me in the hallway and they shake their heads.
“Nope! Maybe mommy’s hiding from you.”
Hiding from me? Like when we were lost children? Hide and seek. Seek and you shall find and I will find her like I always find her. She’s not in the gym either, making me suspect that maybe she went out but she never leaves the house without telling me.
Grabbing my phone, I call her number. No answer but I can hear the ringtone coming from inside the Husband bathroom. She’s been in there all along? I stalk toward the bathroom and the door is slightly open and I watch her through the crack.
One of her homemade candles is flickering on the sink and she’s leaning toward the mirror, busy applying lipstick. She’s wearing a short dress that seductively slides up her legs and I grind my jaw. All this time she’s been in here, getting dolled up while I’ve been yelling and searching for her like a lunatic.
If she weren’t so damn mine, I’d throttle her.
Busting the door open, I growl, “Why the hell don’t you answer when I call?”
Her eyes remain fixed on her lips as she carefully drags the lipstick over her mouth and I clench my jaw. Then I frown. Why is she ignoring me? Have I done something wrong? What now? What the heck did I do now?
“Daphne...,” I say in a sharp tone but she’s treating me like air. Ignoring the man who has a right to her by law and by fate. And she’s looking too fucking sexy while doing it that I feel fire flare in my veins and I walk over to her.
Moving to stand behind her, I put my hands on her waist then drag them down her hips, tugging at the lenience of her curves. She doesn’t say anything but there’s some playful glitter in her eyes and a grin forms behind my mouth.
If she really was pissed at me that glimmer wouldn’t be there. Besides she’s wearing her hot pink thong which means that she wants it.
“You toying with me, doll face?” I ask, sliding down her body and I graze my palms up her thighs and she shudders with hooded eyes. “You might not like it when I toy back.”
I grab a mouthful of her ass cheek and she lets out a yelp, jerking forward.
“Thane!”
I stand and cup her chin, trying to pull her face toward me so that I can kiss her but she purposefully holds it out of my way. If I go right, she turns left. If I go left, she turns right and frustration gets the better of me and I drag a hand through my hair.
“All right, tell me what’s wrong before I lose my fucking patience.”
“Nothing,” she hums, shrugging and I grind my jaw. “Other than the fact that Niall found our cuffs.”
Shit.
But my lips still turn up at the corners and Daphne beats around and her eyes flash.
“Do not laugh,” she warns, groaning when I still chuckle. “Do you know how embarrassing it was when I saw him dangling them in his hand?”
I can imagine. And we don’t use cuffs anymore when we go to sleep because we have each other and we don’t need them anymore but we still use them for fun.
“What was he doing in our bedroom anyway?” I cross my arms over my chest. “He has no business being in there.”
“Think he was looking for some pocket money.” She bites her lip. “And I might’ve given him 50 bucks out of pure guilt.”
I laugh. “Fuck, Daphne...”
A smile crosses her face. “I know, I know but I didn’t want to have to explain to him what his dad and I do with those.”
