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Skye shoves her way in between us. “What are you doing?” She glances back and forth between us. “Why are you touching Nanny Love, Daddy?”
Oh boy. This is not the conversation I want to have before a Bragg family dinner I’m already nervous about.
Yes, I lied to Damon. I’m nervous about the dinner. Can you blame me? The Braggs are all Brady Bunch good and wholesome whereas I’m Love Hill. The woman the entire town of Winter Falls loves to hate.
Damon kneels in front of his daughter. “Does it bother you if I touch Nanny Love?”
Skye’s nose scrunches up. “No?”
Despite the hesitation in Skye’s voice, Damon plows on. I retreat a step but he grabs onto my calf to hold me in place. Dang it.
“What if Daddy and Nanny Love are boyfriend and girlfriend? Would that bother you?”
“Damon,” I hiss. “What are you doing?”
We’ve been dating for less than a minute. He shouldn’t be telling Skye about us. And we agreed we wouldn’t tell her yet.
“What?” He looks at me with wide innocent eyes. Innocent my ass. Everyone thinks Brody’s the troublemaker in the Bragg family. They’re wrong. Damon is worse. Because he acts all straight as an arrow and then – BAM! – hits you with a curveball.
Before I can yell at him, Skye speaks.
“Nanny Love is your girlfriend?”
Damon nods and I’m torn between wanting to run away in fear and sweeping him and Skye up in my arms in joy.
Skye throws her arms in the air. “Yes!”
“You’re okay with Daddy dating Nanny Love?” Damon asks to be sure.
She rolls her eyes. “Duh, Daddy. Nanny Love is awesome.”
She wraps her arms around my legs. “Are you my new mommy now? My old mommy wasn’t very nice. But you are.”
My hands tingle, and heat radiates through my chest. I have to inhale a few deep breaths to get my body under control before I start bawling in happiness.
Being Skye’s mom is my dream. I love her as much as I love her dad. She and her dad are the family I’ve always wanted but never thought I could have.
I kneel next to Damon. My hands shake as I reach forward to touch Skye’s shoulder. Damon squeezes my hip. He knows how much this means to me.
“I’m not your new mommy.”
Skye’s bottom lip trembles. “B-b-but…”
I squeeze her shoulder. “I’m not your new mommy,yet,” I clarify.
“When will you be my new mommy?”
I’ve apparently entered the minefield of keeping a little girl happy while trying not to give her false hope or lie to her. Geez. This is one serious minefield. And I don’t have any protective gear on.
“I don’t know. Your daddy and I are new to being boyfriend and girlfriend.”
Skye stares at me for a minute before nodding. “Like me and Atlas?”
“Who’s Atlas?” Damon grumbles.
“He’s my new boyfriend.”
“Boyfriend?”
