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“It will be the last thing Remy ever does.”
“What if he’s poisonous?”
“I’ll go to the clinic.”
“What if he burrows under your skin and lays eggs and they invade your body and…” She looked a little green even as she failed to complete whatever horrifying thought she had going through her pretty head.
“Well, that would make Remy a girl, I guess,” Beau said.
She frowned. “It’s not funny.”
“Okay, if that happens, I’ll still go to the clinic, and I’ll have a hell of a story to tell.”
She moaned. “Beau.”
He finally chuckled. “Bec, that isnotgoing to happen, and other than taking a blowtorch to the place, I’m not sure how else you want me to handle this.”
“Let’s just leave. Buy your mom a new tablecloth. Just leave Remy and Damon and the rest up here alone,” she said.
“But then they’ll think they won. They’ll invite more friends. They’ll take over the entire attic. They’ll be using my old skateboard and having dinner parties with mom’s China. They’ll grow to the size of dogs. We can’t have that.”
She was staring at him.
Okay, so maybe that wasn’t the way to deal with a person with a phobia. A little understanding and tenderness would probably be appropriate. But that might involve standing closer to her and, God forbid, hugging her.
If he hugged Becca Bollier, he might never let her go.
He might kiss her.
He might tell her that he was still in love with her.
And all of that was way worse than feeding into her irrational fear of a creature barely the size of the tip of her finger.
Probably.
No one would accuse him of being an expert on human emotion. Or human psychology, for that matter.
“How much do you want to punch me right now?” he asked her.
“On a scale from one to ten?”
“Yeah.” He felt the corner of his mouth curl up.
“Seven point five.”
“Ah, I have some wiggle room then,” he said. He inched toward the trunk. “You gonna be okay if I open this thing?”
“Absolutely not.”
“You can go downstairs by yourself,” he offered. He was right next to the trunk now.
“I can’t.”
“Why?”
“Emmaline lives up there.” She pointed.
Beau almost choked on a laugh. He definitely knew who Emmaline was named after.
