Page 169 of Her Daddies' Everything

“Yeah? With who?” he asked.

“Snowy!”

“No, you weren’t.”

Immy gasped. “I was so! Who are you to say that I wasn’t playing hide and seek? You don’t know that I wasn’t.”

“You’re doing the potty dance,” he pointed out.

“It is not the potty dance!” She glanced down at her body. “Unicorn poop.”

“Damn, you’re cute,” he told her.

“That’s a dollar.”

“Except when you’re telling me that I owe the swear jar money,” he added.

“Hey! I take grave offense to that!” It wasn’t the first time he’d said it, either. Which was doubly rude.

Hmm, now she recalled that she owed him an Immy-joke. Maybe some pretend poop in his bed would help.

“To what?” he asked.

“I’m cute all the time, darn it. All the time.” She stomped her foot down on the floor. “Oh no! Now I have to go pee. See what you made me do?”

“Sweetness, just think I should point out that you wouldn’t need to pee if you hadn’t been lying about why you were hiding in a pile of stuffed toys.”

Urgh.

“You are so insufferable!” she yelled through the bathroom door.

“Why? Because I’m right?”

She wasn’t going to answer that. Because to answer it the way she wanted to . . . well, she’d be lying.

And she was already peed out.

After cleaning up, she walked back into the room to find Tobias staring at the pile of toys.

“That’s a lot of toys.”

“I know. I’m beginning to worry that Abe might have a stuffed toy addiction. Well, to buying them.”

“No, he’s just got an Immy-addiction.”

“What? No, he doesn’t.”

“Hmm, maybe that’s the wrong word. He’s not addicted to you as in interested in you sexually. But he loves you and he wants to give you whatever you need. Like every other man in this household.”

Why did he sound put-out by that? Was he . . . was he jealous of her friends and her relationship with them?

She wasn’t quite sure.

“You were hiding from Jenner, weren’t you?” he said, turning to her.

Cupcakes.

She couldn’t answer without lying. Well, she could tell the truth. But she didn’t really want to.

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