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“Is that so?” he asked.
“Um. Yes.”
“He’s staying the night?”
“Yes. He said that they’ve got a lot going on, so it didn’t make sense to come home late, then have to drive back in early in the morning. I mean . . . I guess he has a point, Daddy. It would be dangerous to drive while tired.” And Brody hadn’t been driving for very long.
“I could have gone and gotten him,” the Fox pointed out. “Or he could have worked from home tomorrow.”
She winced. Both were good points.
“He’s working far too much lately,” the Fox muttered.
“Do you think he’s avoiding us?” she whispered.
“Avoid us? Why would he want to avoid us? He loves us, Autumn.” The Fox sounded completely confident.
Autumn felt unsure, though. What if he was sick of sharing the Fox with her? “Maybe it’s me he’s avoiding. Perhaps I’ve done something.”
The Fox let out a low growl and set her on her feet before standing. Then he grabbed her hand, drawing her out of the room and up the stairs until they reached the living room.
He walked her over to the sofa and pointed at it. “Sit.”
“Um, Daddy, what’s wrong?”
“What’s wrong is that our boy isn’t here where he should be. You’re upset. I’m not happy. So it’s time something was done about this.”
“Um, Fox, perhaps you should take a moment and just breathe,” she suggested worriedly. “I could get you a drink.”
“You will do no such thing. You are going to sit right there and watch one of those strange Christmas movies while you wait for me to return.”
“My Christmas movies are not strange,” she muttered. Okay, so she was focusing on the wrong thing. “They’re romantic and feel-good.”
“Everyone smiles far too much. It’s bizarre. And they don’t have any real problems.”
“I know, but that’s the point. I love the happy endings and all the beautiful towns they live in. It would be nice to live in one of those movies, don’t you think?”
“Bunny, me living in one of those movies would be like John Wick meets Mary Poppins.”
Shoot. He wasn’t wrong.
“You aren’t unfeeling and melancholic!” she protested.
“No. I am not without feelings anymore. Sometimes, they are quite inconvenient. Like right now.”
“Are you upset about Brody?” she asked.
“Yes.”
“What are you going to do?”
“I’m going to go get him.”
Right. Okay. Shoot.
“What if he doesn’t want to go with you?”
He smiled. It was a slightly terrifying smile. “Bunny, as if I’d let that stop me.”
