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“Sorry, it’s for your own good,” Thorn replies, not sounding sorry in the least. He takes a deep breath and yells, “Everything but the paddling pool is lava!”
And then he dumps me on my ass in the ice-cold water, as him, Nix and Rebel all race to jump into the pool and not be the last man standing.
“I-I th-thought y-you s-said it was w-warm,” I complain to Phoenix through chattering teeth. She laughs evilly at me and grins. I shake my head and splash her. Oh well, I’m wet anyway. She laughs and splashes me back.
“Actually baby, I came out here to say goodbye because I have to go out somewhere with Baxter.”
“Danger Daddy.”
I blink. Phoenix has never, ever called any of the guys Daddy before and my heart seizes. She’s never even asked about her dad before, besides that tricky moment on Christmas Day.
“What do you mean, baby?” I ask, crouching down in front of her despite the ice cold water.
“We’ve been working on superhero secret code names and we decided Baxter is danger daddy.”
“I see…” I say slowly. “And who helped you with the names? Does everyone have names?”
“Yeah! Thorn is fun daddy…” I give Thorn an unamused, unsurprised look and he snorts. “Jax is strict daddy, and Rebel is...bad word daddy.”
“Is that because he’s always swearing?” I laugh.
“No. I don’t want to say a bad word and get into trouble.”
“Okay. It’s probably best you don’t.” I shoot daggers at Thorn who’s laughing his ass off, no doubt to blame for this. “What about Ace and you and me?”
“You’re Mummy,” she replies like it’s so damn obvious. “Rebel wanted to call you hot mummy but you look cold. Erm, I’m firebird or princess in training...and Ace is sugar daddy because he lets me have cookies.”
I burst out laughing.
“Those are great names baby, but maybe Ace can be cookie daddy or something.” Thorn winks at me. “Okay, so I really do have to go, because now I have to go and get changed too and I don’t want to keep Baxter waiting.”
“Mummy! You have to call him danger daddy.”
“Okay, I’ll try and remember next time. I have to go Nix. I’m leaving Ja— strict daddy in charge.”
“Okay! Love you Mummy, bye!” She gives me a kiss and races off with her water pistol to continue the fight.
“Have fun on your date,” Thorn says, giving me a quick peck and taking off after Nix.
Rebel pulls me into his arms.
“You shouldn’t change.”
“But I’m all wet.”
“I happen to love you wet. And I think Baxter will too.”
“Don’t you mean ‘danger daddy’?” I snort. Rebel’s gaze heats.
“Shit, that shouldn’t sound so damn hot coming from your lips, but fuck it does.”
I laugh and push him away, shaking my head at how incorrigible he is.
“Are you damn daddy?”
“Asshole daddy, but if you’re the one saying it I’ll take ‘fuck me harder daddy’.”
“SSH!” I smack my hand over his mouth to silence him but he just laughs.
