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I didn’t fucking move as the world’s worst and funniest fucking blanket fort got built on Mom’s floor. Snack bowls were propped between pillows, drinks needed lids because we’d probably fucking spill everything if left to our own accord, and Mom took pictures of all of it—ones she promptly sent to all of us.
At the end of it, I had a bowl of popcorn wedged against my hip, Declan’s head rested on my knee from where he sat on the floor between Cade and Raven, and I couldn’t hear a fucking thing on the TV. Still, I fucking laughed because Sam, Lucas, and Finn went back and forth reciting every goddamn line in the fucking movie. Yeah, we’d watched it that many times.
As my gaze drifted over the chaos, I smiled slightly. Okay, maybe the puppy squad wasn’t so bad. I needed this.
I needed them.
“We need to talk,” Raven announced. She wiggled in her spot until she was facing me, resting her chin on the couch cushion.
“No good has ever come from a woman saying those words, and we’re not dating, you wild little hurricane,” I scoffed.
“Oh, hurricane. I like that.” There was no way in hell she’d never been called that. She grinned and leaned back to look at Declan and Cade. “Am I a hurricane?”
“Yes,” they replied in unison. And so did every other fucking person in the house. I chuckled.
“I’ll take it. Can anyone be a bounty hunter?” she asked.
“Well, yeah, except you.”
“Did Declan tell you to say that?”
“Raven, you can’t even get out of his truck without hurting yourself,” I reminded her as I munched on a handful of popcorn.
“It’s not my fault he has an unnecessarily large truck to go with his necessarily large—” I slammed a hand over her mouth before she could finish that fucking sentence. Not that it fucking mattered. Declan fucking smirked, and Cade cracked up.
“No one wants that,” I said.
“I want that,” she shot back, eyes crinkling around the corners with a devious grin.
“I know.” I chuckled. “That’s why you’re the horny villain.”
“If I’m the horny villain, what does that make you?” Raven replied.
“Grumpy villain,” Sam said.
“Dickhead villain,” Cade chimed in.
“Nah, it’s donut villain,” Declan retorted.
“Oh, yes!” Sam exclaimed. “That’s accurate.”
“Fuck,” I muttered, “now I want a donut.”
“Here.” Raven held out an open bag of candy. “Have a gummy bear.”
“Because those are the same thing.” Still, I helped myself to a handful of gummy bears.
“It’s the best I’ve got,” she told me. “What kind of things do you bounty hunt, donut villain?”
“It’s just called hunting, horny villain.” I grinned at the fact that we were sticking with this. “And I don’t know. A lot of things. I don’t know… ask me something and I’ll tell you if it’s real.”
“What’s the worst thing you’ve ever hunted?” Raven asked while taking out her phone. She got comfortable, half on the couch and half off as she started researching magical creatures.
“Worst? Fuck.” I blew out a long breath of air. I debated just how much to tell her. Keep her naive. That was all I could think of. She didn’t need to know all of the dark shit. “Troll who killed people.”
“Was it like a bridge troll?” Her eyes caught mine as she frowned. Jesus Christ, there was no getting off easy with this woman. At the other end of the couch, Cade snorted.
“Just remember, you let this happen,” he told me.
