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"Yes," the child sniffed.
Cassandra returned and instantly pulled out the iodine.
"Just squeeze my hand as hard as you can and it'll be done before you know it, deal?" he said to Ben.
"But-"
"See how hard you can squeeze, little man."
Ben grabbed his hand and squeezed pretty hard for a 4-year-old as his mother cleaned and bandaged his foot.
The child was calmed down with hugs, kisses, and chocolate chips in a little plastic bowl within the next 10 minutes, and Daniel couldn't help thinking they had made a good team.
Cassandra spent the next hour cuddling Ben on the couch and had no appropriate time to speak to Daniel, but she hoped she could call him later that day.
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Daniel stayed until 3 pm when he had to prepare for Tina to come home. He couldn't wait to tell her all about Cassandra.
He took a shower and replayed the kiss repeatedly in his mind. The ghost of Cassandra's touch lingered all over his skin. For the first time in ages, he thought about actually making love to someone again.
He wondered what she had to tell him, but with Ben's accident, it had been forgotten in the shuffle. He figured she could always tell him later, and he wasn't overly concerned.
When he arrived at the school to meet Tina's bus, he had a bunch of flowers and wore something decent to take her out for supper at her favorite restaurant. Harry stood beside him, waiting for Sarita, and they chatted about Daniel and Cassandra's new relationship.
"She kissed me," Daniel casually dropped into conversation.
"Yeah? Nice!"
"She's incredible, Harry! Now I just got to hope everything will work with her kid and mine."
"It'll be fine, Tina wanted you to find someone and her kid is only little right?"
"Yeah, he's cute as hell," Daniel laughed.
The bus pulled up, and Tina ran off the second the doors opened and right into his arms, just like he hoped she would. He still wanted her to be his little girl for a while longer.
"I missed you, Dad!" she squealed, and he held her back on the ground after a long hug.
"I missed you like crazy, honey. You hungry?"
"Starving!" she groaned, and he grabbed her bag to take to the truck.
"I got some big news, actually," he said as he waved goodbye to Sarita and Harry.
"Really? What is it?"
"I'll tell you at dinner. You might want to be sitting down for this."
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She insisted he spilled the news the moment they ordered, and he couldn't put it off anymore.
"I met somebody," he smiled.
"You did?"
"Yeah. You said to go out and try to meet someone and I did it! Get this, she actually likes me too!"
