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A rough laugh escaped before I’d realized what I’d done but she didn’t get offended. “Oh yes, kitten, we’ll have to do that again, and if you want to drive your Daddy crazy, you could text him an emoji or something almost innocent every time you plan on havingpersonal time.”
Her eyes widened before she laughed, nodding and snickering as ideas seemed to flood her imagination. “Yes, something almost boring but still fun.”
I had a feeling Harper was suddenly going to get a lot of eggplants, hot dogs, and flowery images coming to his phone. Eventually, I’d probably have to apologize for that but it was going to be fun until we got to that point.
“You know.” Her grin seemed to get even wider as her foot stretched out to nudge mine. “I’m going to have to make sure Daddy takes me on a date so he can help me figure out how to drive you crazy.”
I’d created a very sexy monster.
Mostly managing not to laugh, I gave her a stern frown she didn’t believe in the slightest. “I think I’m going to have to start working on my list of rules sooner rather than later. This can’t be allowed.”
Still beaming, she shook her head. “Oh no, I’m not agreeing to that. I’m starting to like thistwo against onedynamic.”
As long as she wasn’t the one.
Hmm, we could work with that.
“Let’s focus onourdate for now.” Her eyes were still sparkling as she gave a little happy wiggle in her seat before my words had her glancing down at the menu. “You still haven’t said if you wanted to do anything specific after dinner.”
“First things first.” She was still excited and sweetly cheerful as she went back to browsing through the menu. “There are so many good options. How did you know I wanted pasta tonight?”
As she looked up curiously, I scoffed. “No, Ender did not text me or call.”
She’d told Harper earlier when they were sending random texts back and forth to deliberately distract each other during work. It was ridiculous but Harper’s students seemed to find the whole thing hilarious based on his retelling of the shenanigans.
Shrugging, she didn’t look apologetic at all. “It was a logical assumption.”
I was not going to encourage that line of thinking, so I ignored it.
“Food and then what? You’ve been deliberately ignoring that question, so I can only assume it’s because you think the answer is going to bore me?” Or worry me, but I didn’t want to push her deeper into that line of thinking. “Oh, you want to go to that interpretive dance thing that keeps getting advertised everywhere. What did I do to be punished like that?”
She finally glanced up at me, shaking her head and trying not to laugh. “No, that looks painful. I’d be torturing both of us.”
Taking a deep breath, she straightened and went back to her serious stance. “I… I wanted to go back to your place and hang out with all three of us, but I thought that might be… bad or wrong? I don’t know the right word right off the bat but I don’t want to ruin our date.”
“Alright.” I hadn’t wanted to assume that but it wasn’t a surprise. We’d all been fairly busy during the week and hadn’t met in person since last weekend. “Should we find a movie or did you want to do something more hands on?”
The tension she’d been trying to hide eased out of her and she nodded almost to herself as she leaned back in the chair, menu forgotten for the time being. “Define hands on in this scenario?”
Barking out a laugh, I shook my head. “Nope, I think I’m going to make you guess on that for now.”
Because our kitten had a wonderful imagination and I had a feeling that it would make dinner even more interesting.
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“I…” Tabitha was back to bouncing between nervous and something that seemed like excited, but it was hard to tell because her gaze kept jumping between the trunk of her car and the house before circling back to me.
It was almost dizzying even though it’d only been going on for a few seconds. She hadn’t even completely gotten out of the driver’s side of her car before she’d tried to get something out. It wasn’t working, though.
I was trying to be patient and let her work through her thoughts but she quickly frowned and seemed to jump right to frustrated. “Damn it, Ender. Why didn’t you handle this?”
Since he wasn’t here, I stepped closer and managed not to smile, kissing her forehead and ignoring the tightness of the muscles there. “Because he knew you could handle whatever it is. He knows you’re stronger than you think. So, kitten, tell me what you’re worried about.”
She gave a dramatic sigh and pushed herself against me, burying her face in my neck. “That’s not how our friendship works.”
Laughing would’ve made me a terrible Dom, but she made it so difficult not to.
“Did you actually tell Ender what you were planning?” I thought it was a ridiculous question, but when she went still, I wasn’t so sure it was stupid.
