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“It’ll beokay,baby.”
He got me.
Too damned much.
I sucked in a breath, forgot his cock for the moment. “They’re not like your family.”
Fingers in my hair, pressing gently on my scalp. “You know I know that.” A light tug on one curl. “And you need to know that the most important thing isn’t that they’re like my parents.” I inhaled. “It’s that I care about you and what we’re making together and that I know—know—that it’s good, baby.”
He dropped his forehead to mine.
Stared into my eyes.
“It’sgood.”
I exhaled.
“So whatever comes our way, we’ll weather it, yeah?”
I bit my lip, wanting to argue, wanting to focus on all the bad shit. But…I couldn’t. Not with Joel on top of me, holding me, his green on warm on mine.
Because there was so much good.
And it was centered on the man I was falling for.
So, I didn’t argue.
I just nodded and agreed. “Yeah, honey.”
His mouth curved. “It’ll be good,” he murmured, kissing my forehead. “I promise.”
That was a promise he couldn’t keep.
Hecouldn’t.
But…in that moment, I believed him.
Suffice to say, Luna’s garlic bread didn’t have the same calming qualities on my parents as it had before.
On me—nor on my parents.
And it wasn’t because I’d spent my time in a flurry.
It was because I was off my game.
The moment my ass had hit the leather, my dad had started in on it. Onme.
He’d heard about my day off.
And…he didn’t approve.
I’d managed to distract him with a discussion of the festival and the progress we’d made with the outstanding insurance claims and revisiting his plans for the senior center.
Now…we were waiting to order entrees.
And he was being my dad.
And Joel…well, Joel was riding that razor’s edge.
