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The Fox huffed out a breath. “I know. I’m excellent at this relationship stuff. Honestly, I really don’t know how people find it so difficult. Just make your intentions clear, keep the people you love safe and happy, and spank their butts on occasion. You know, I’ve changed my mind.”
“You have?” Autumn asked, confused. “About what?”
“About becoming a matchmaker,” the Fox stated.
“You are?” Brody asked.
“Yes. I think I should become a relationship counselor instead.”
Oh. Dear. Lord.
“Really?” Autumn asked before biting her lip to stop herself from bursting into laughter.
Brody shot her a look, and she tried to get herself under control, taking a couple of deep breaths. She really did.
But she could barely keep her composure.
“Yes. All those silly movies you watch, Autumn, where the people have this great miscommunication, could be easily fixed if they’d just come to me. I would tell them what they’re doing wrong. And what they need to change about themselves. And then they could go on, living a happy life.”
“Hmm,” Brody said. “I’m not sure that people like being told what to change about themselves.”
“Well, they should if they’re doing something wrong. Why wouldn’t someone want to be corrected?”
“Um, do you like to be corrected when you’re doing something wrong?” Autumn asked gently.
“Pfft. Irrelevant. I never do anything wrong.”
Right. She’d walked right into that one.
“Perhaps I can use my fountain of knowledge to help Duke. Lord knows he needs it. And my Sunny deserves the best.”
“Yeah, not sure that would go down well with Duke,” Brody told him.
“And he seems like a good husband to Sunny,” Autumn added.
“But he won’t go away on holiday with us. The two of you deserve a family holiday. And that means that Sunny must join us. And by default, that man she married.”
Autumn widened her eyes as she glanced at Brody.
“Uh, Papa,” he said. “It’s nice you want to give us a family holiday, but we really don’t need anything. I mean, if we want to be around family, we can go spend time with my crazy family. During the summer holidays, we’d often go to visit my grandparents in Colorado. It wasn’t that great. All of us were trapped in a car for hours. Lissy used to get motion sickness. Try travelling for seven hours trapped in a hot car with the smell of vomit.” He shuddered.
“My grandparents used to go on holiday down to Florida at Christmas time,” Autumn said. “But the weird thing was they would never take me to the beach. They said they hated the sand..”
“Well then, that sounds like you both need a decent holiday,” the Fox said.
“We could go away, just the three of us,” Autumn suggested.
“You know, tonight has given me an idea.”
“What?” Autumn asked, feeling alarmed. The Fox’s ideas were often outrageous.
“I’m going to kidnap Sunny and bring her with us on holiday.”
Yep. Outrageous.
Brody sat upright, looking as alarmed as Autumn felt. “Papa, you can’t do that.”
“Why not? It’s the perfect solution.”
