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“Really?”
“Yep. We’ll get them to have the party pooperiness pulled out of you.”
“Good to know. I feel so relieved now,” he said dryly.
“Me too, Daddy. Me too.”
“Well, until that happens. I guess we’ll just have to make do with me being a party pooper. Which means you now get to eat some fruit and vegetables.”
“Noooo! It should be illegal!”
“Illegal?” he asked.
“Yep. Should be illegal to be made to eat vegetables when you have your period.” She wrinkled her nose.
“Well,” he said, tapping her nose. “I’ve never been one to care about following the law.”
She sighed as he grabbed the plate from where he’d set it on the coffee table and picked up a piece of carrot to feed her.
Should definitely be illegal.
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No!
No, no, no!
She stared down at the piece of paper in her hand. She was back in her apartment. It was a week after Steele had taken care of her during her period. This past weekend, she’d spent Saturday night with them again. But this had mostly been about them looking after her and Little time.
She loved Little time with Daddy. The only thing that would make it better was if Grady would join them.
But she wasn’t going to push him into anything he didn’t want.
Now . . . all thoughts of Little time were pushed from her head.
She stared down at the letter in horror. A letter that stated someone was going for custody of Brooks. The first name of the person was unknown to her, but the last name wasn’t.
This person shared Brooks’ mom’s last name. So it had to be a relative of hers. Effie studied the lawyer’s name. There were contact details for him. The name was familiar, though.
Her mind went back to that phone call from a few months ago where that lawyer had wanted her to allow Tanya to call Brooks.
Did this have something to do with that? Should she have let her call him? Would this have been prevented?
Her breath came in sharp pants. She had to get it together. Brooks had already left for school and Grady was going to be here in ten minutes to pick her up.
Grady and Steele now picked her up for work when they could. Mostly, Grady, though.
And she loved those moments together. She needed to carve out more time for them, without abandoning Brooks. But they’d both been telling her that he could come and stay as well.
Now, that all seemed like nothing. Pointless to worry about when she had something so much worse to concern herself with.
With a shaking hand, she dialed the phone number on the letter. After getting through his assistant, she heard that same lawyer’s voice.
“Hello, Ms. Stephenson. How can I help?”
He sounded professional but smug.
Asshole.
