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“Um, how did you know we’d left?” Brody asked. “I thought you weren’t coming home until this afternoon.”
“Pup, you don’t think I have safeguards in place to watch over you when I’m not there?”
Autumn sighed. “You do l-love to spy on us.”
“Right. Car. Now. All three of you.”
“But we can’t!” Sunny said. “I need to find the keys for Duke’s truck.”
“We’ll leave it here,” he said. “The snow is getting heavier. And we won’t be able to find his keys in this snow.”
“But . . . but I have to find them,” Sunny said urgently. “This is Duke’s new truck. He’s gonna kill me if I lose the keys.”
“He will not,” the Fox replied fiercely. “I would never allow that to happen.”
All three of them stared at him in shock.
“Turn of phrase,” Brody whispered to him.
Oh. Right. Of course.
“Fox, you know Duke wouldn’t actually kill me. Spank me every night for the next month, yes. Kill me, no.”
“It seems like you deserve those spankings. Although I will have a word with him about giving you some break nights.”
Sunny gaped at him. “Wow. That’s nice of you.”
“I would do anything for you, sweet girl.”
Sunny sighed, shaking her head. But she also grinned. That made it difficult for him to understand what she was thinking.
“What do we do? I need those keys,” Sunny said.
“We can keep l-looking,” Brody said, his teeth chattering.
“The three of you are not standing out in this weather looking for those keys. We are leaving,” the Fox said firmly.
“Fox, please.” Sunny gave him wide eyes.
Damn it. He would not cave.
“Does he not have spare keys?” he asked.
“Yes.” Sunny clicked her fingers, smiling. “At our place. If you could take me home, then bring me back—”
“Not happening,” he told her.
“But, Fox!”
“No, you’re going home and staying there. You’ll call Duke and tell him what happened. He can get a ride up here tomorrow.”
“But I can’t leave his truck here overnight! What if someone finds the keys and steals the truck?”
“Do you have a key to this place?” he asked.
“Um, yep. It’s under the fake rock.”
He nearly rolled his eyes. Of course it was.
