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I immediately started panicking as I said, “No!”
He put them back on, frowning.
“I need quiet,” I told him. “Hence the headphones.”
He studied me for a few long seconds before nodding.
He caught my hand and started leading me around, and I had to practically run to keep up with him.
Farther and farther we went, and at some point, the crowd started thinning until there was no one around but a stray worker or two in a black polo denoting them Singh Circus Employees.
It was only when we were near a food truck of sorts that he pulled my headphones off again and stared at me.
“Hey,” I said. “Not that it’s not cool to finally see you or anything, but I have to go back. I don’t think Ellenie can handle three kids.”
His eyes narrowed.
“You said that you don’t like kids.” He eyed me with accusation.
I looked at the tent where I’d left Buddy, then back to Mr. Tinder.
“I said that my best friend didn’t like kids, and sometimes I didn’t blame her,” I corrected him.
His mouth dropped open. “You what?”
“I what, what?” I asked.
“You like kids?” he said, his voice higher than it had been a few seconds ago.
I shrugged. “I mean, I guess if they’re good, I like them. I’m sure if they were mine, I’d really like them. As long as they were listening to me, that is. And not scaring me. Because that’s a huge no-no for me. But mostly, I like kids.”
That was convoluted and somewhat impossible to understand, but the man made me flustered.
So sue me.
Before he could reply, he looked at something over my shoulder.
I turned and saw a woman walking up with a little girl.
She had to be around eighteen to twenty-four months at most.
And she was cute.
She had bright blue eyes, bleach blonde hair, and the cutest little Gerber baby face I’d ever seen.
And she was saying ‘dada’ to the person behind me.
Woodenly, I turned and stared at the man who reached for the baby in the woman’s arms.
“Thank you, Amber.”
CHAPTER 2
I think my clutch is gone. I can’t get my butt in gear.
-Kristoff to Marlow
KRISTOFF
