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“Uh, I don’t think . . . wait, do you have cameras set up in here? In my house?” he demanded.
The Fox just grinned.
“Fox?”
“I don’t think I’ll answer that. Makes it more entertaining when you try to figure out the answer on your own.”
“You can be a real asshole sometimes,” Duke told him without ire.
“I have to get in my kicks somehow. You know, you’d think regularly batter dipping your corn dog would—”
“Fox!” Duke said with a groan. “Can we stay focused? I want to get back to Sunny sometime tonight.”
“Right. What are we going to do about this? They can’t be allowed to go off half-cocked when they get a scheme in their head. It’s dangerous. And I can’t allow any of them to get hurt. So unless you want me to lock away all of them, we need to do something.”
Duke glared at the Fox. “This is why we have problems. You cannot keep threatening to take Sunny from me.”
Fox gave him a strange look. “I am not threatening to take Sunny from you.”
“You’re often saying how you will take her and lock her up. How is that not taking her from me?”
“I assumed you would come too.”
“Fox, sometimes you’ve threatened to take her because you thought I was upsetting her.”
“Isn’t that what big brothers do? Threaten anyone who looks at their little sister strangely, who upsets them? Even if they are her husband?”
Duke let out a breath. Shit. “I guess so. I just know that if you wanted to, you could take her and I’d never find her again.”
The Fox stared at him for a long moment. “I can see how that would be upsetting for you.”
“Thank you for acknowledging my feelings,” Duke said dryly.
“We don’t have to hug now, do we?”
“No!” Duke said. “Definitely not.”
“I promise to never take Sunny from you as long as you do not truly harm her. I might threaten it, but I will not do it unless I deem her at real risk from you.”
“That will never happen,” Duke said in a tight voice.
“Then you have nothing to worry about.”
Duke hoped not.
“You are a sensitive thing, aren’t you? I will have to remember that.”
Duke sighed and tried to keep his temper in check. “What are we going to do about what they did tonight?”
“Well, my two won’t be sitting very well tomorrow or the ensuing days. And I heard you plan on grounding Sunny . . .”
Dear Lord.
Did he have to know everything?
“I meant, what are we going to do about that plan of theirs?”
“Ahh. That.”
