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Duke made a sound like someone punched him in the gut.
“Well?” Tex prompted me.
I struggled to find my voice. “Um…you two are consenting adults. You don’t need my blessing.”
“Don’t want you and your sister playin’ snotty tricks on me like those brats on TV,” Tex replied.
I blinked. “The brats on TV are usually kids, not adults approaching thirty like Lottie and me.”
His bushy eyebrows hit his hairline. “Wasn’t very adult, pullin’ each other’s hair and having a fuckin’ catfight on the floor, Loopy Loo.”
He had a point.
“You have my blessing,” I told him.
Then I smiled liking the idea of Tex dating my mom.
He scowled.
“What? I said you have my blessing,” I reminded him.
“Now I gotta ask her.”
I looked at Mom. She was watching us. Or more likely, watching Tex. She looked away the minute she saw me looking at her.
I looked back at Tex. “I think she’ll say yes.”
“Yeah?” he looked uncertain.
I did my best not to laugh.
It didn’t work.
“Shee-it,” Tex said, turning away from me.
The door opened and Daisy strolled in, her hair barely tamed by two pigtails sticking out the sides of her neck. I left Tex to his worried thoughts and Duke to his pissed-off state of mind and walked out from behind the counter.
Daisy waved to me and then looked to Lottie.
“You ready, sugar?” she said to Lottie.
“What’s happening?” I asked.
“Daisy’s going to take me to Smithie’s, show me some moves, make sure I get my Porsche,” Lottie explained. “Mom’s gonna come with us.”
I thought about Mom hanging out at Smithie’s watching her daughter practice strip routines.
My family.
Then I turned to Daisy. “Would you mind swinging by our apartment building? Ada might want to come. With Mom out of the house, she doesn’t have much company and she might be bored. She’d probably like to see your moves.”
This was weird, but this was true.
“No problem, darlin’,” Daisy replied then looked to Tex and called, “Tex, you playin’ bodyguard?”
“Fuck yeah,” Tex boomed.
“Let’s go,” Daisy ordered and off they trotted.
