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The lawyer’s office is in a suburb of Denver. I park in front of the small building and switch off the engine. Neither Harmony nor Robin wake.
I tuck a stray strand of Harmony’s hair behind her ear and palm her neck. Her body leans toward mine in her sleep and I grin. Harmony might fight the two of us being together but her body knows what it wants.
“Harmony,” I whisper.
“Five more minutes,” she mutters.
I check the clock. I wish I could let her sleep, but her meeting is in five minutes.
“You need to wake up,” I say with a squeeze of her neck.
Her eyes fly open. “Who? What? Why?” Her confusion is adorable. She sits up and looks around. “Why are we stopped? Where are we?”
“At the lawyer’s office. You slept the whole way.”
“Sorry.”
“There’s no need to be sorry. You were up most of the night with the baby. I’m glad you got some sleep. Robin slept the entire way, too.”
She glances over her shoulder at the baby and her face goes soft. I feel a ping of jealousy. I want her to look at me with the same adoration in her eyes.
“Your meeting is in five minutes. Do you want to take Robin with you? Or do you want me to watch her?”
She bites her lip as she studies me. I know I’m not exactly babysitter material, but I’m a grown man. I can handle a baby for an hour while she meets with her lawyer.
I tweak her nose. “It’s okay, stubborn girl. I promise to be a dick tomorrow, so you won’t fall in love with me.”
She scowls. “I’m not going to fall in love with you no matter what.”
I chuckle. “You keep telling yourself that.”
“Whatever. Can you babysit Robin?”
She doesn’t wait for an answer before jumping out of the truck and marching across the street to the law firm.
Chapter 6
Where the hell are you and where is my truck? ~ Text from Miller to Elder
The second I enter the lawyer’s office, the woman behind the reception desk looks up and smiles at me.
“You must be Ms. Kingsley,” she says as she stands.
I frown when I notice how perfectly she’s dressed. I glance down at my outfit. There’s a stain on my shirt from where Robin spit up on me this morning and my skirt is wrinkled. Although I’m not usually too bothered by my appearance, this is a new low for me.
“Follow me.” I trail behind her down the hallway with my hand covering the dirty mark on my shirt. “Mr. Craven will be with you in a minute,” she says as she opens the door to an empty meeting room.
I collapse into a chair at the table and notice a tray of cookies in the center. My stomach rumbles. I can’t remember the last time I ate. I know I missed breakfast. Getting a baby dressed takes way longer than I expected.
Did I have dinner last night? The entire evening is a haze from the moment Ms. Cross placed a baby in my arms.
My stomach rumbles again. A chocolate chip cookie for breakfast it is. I grab a cookie and bite into it. As soon as the taste of chocolate hits my tongue, I moan and take another bite. I finish the cookie in three bites.
I stare at the remaining cookies as I contemplate eating another one. My stomach rumbles. One cookie was not enough to fill it. What the hell. I grab another one.
The door behind me opens and I jump to my feet. Crumbs from the cookie fall to the floor and I look down to find my skirt is covered with miniature specks of cookie. For crying out loud. I could be a vagabond. I swipe at my clothes while I chew as fast as I can.
“Ms. Kingsley?” The man extends his hand.
