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“Fine. I’m still going to talk to that bastard. However, I won’t lead with my fists on his face.”
“Thank you.”
“That will come later,” he added. “If I don’t like what he says.”
She sighed. Cavemen. She was surrounded in them.
53
“So,” she said as she hugged Wally to her chest later that night.
Hack had just walked into their bedroom carrying a bottle of milk.
“Aidan was totally over-the-top, huh? I mean . . . threatening to dismember you if you hurt me. That was crazy. As if. He’d never do it, you know. He was just being cuckoo.”
“Baby, stop stressing.”
“Who’s stressing? I’m not stressing. Nope. Not me. Uh-uh.”
“Right.” He put the milk on the nightstand then climbed into bed. Sitting, he leaned against the headboard. She immediately climbed into his lap. She loved taking her bottle like this. It was so relaxing and she always felt so safe in his arms.
But she wasn’t ready to relax just yet.
“You sound like you’re stressing.”
“Nope. I am totally chill.”
“Uh-huh. Listen to me.” He tilted her face back. “No matter what goes on between me and Aidan, it is not something for you to worry about. Daddy is in charge. Daddy does the worrying for you. And if I say there is nothing to worry about, then there is nothing to worry about.”
“You just said worry a lot.”
He gave her a firm look and she sighed. “I will try not to be too concerned that my brother and my boyfriend are going to come to blows or something.”
“We are not going to come to blows,” he told her. “Now, time for your bottle and sleep, understand? Tomorrow is a new day.”
“With a boulder for a manny.”
“Oh my God,” he said, grinning. “That’s his new nickname, Manny Boulder.”
Crap. Stone would never forgive her for that one.
* * *
“Come on,Stone. You have to forgive me,” she wheedled. “I didn’t mean to give Hack an idea for a new nickname.”
Damn man was so good at the silent game.
She sat on the dining chair with a sad sigh. “I’ll cry if you don’t forgive me.”
“That’s manipulative.”
“But you’ll forgive me?”
He crossed his arms over his chest. “I should spank you.”
“We both know you won’t do that.”
He heaved a big sigh. “Fine. You’re forgiven. But from now on, you won’t moan when I tell you it’s time for something on your schedule.”
