Page 181 of Her Daddies' Everything

“What is it?” she asked, sounding breathless. Was he going to kiss her lips?

Did she want that?

Yes.

“We need to chat about what happened,” he told her as he reached into the medicine bag and drew out some stuff to clean her arm.

“What? Me choking?”

“Before that,” he said.

Oh cupcakes.

She really didn’t want to talk about that.

“I’m not sure that there’s anything we need to talk about,” she told him as he finished cleaning the tiny scratches.

“No? How about the fact that bit—woman grabbed you, hurting you?” His face darkened as he spoke.

Had he been about to call her a bitch?

“She didn’t hurt me,” Immy told him, holding out her arm. “I’m fine. I mark easily. I think she just grabbed hold of my arm and her nails accidentally pressed against me. They areincredibly long and sharp. I wonder how easy it is for her to go to the bathroom.”

“I didn’t think of that,” he grumbled. “Now, it’s going to be burned into my brain.”

She let out a surprised giggle. “Sorry.”

“You should be.” He sent her a stern look.

For a moment she was worried that he was serious, then he winked at her.

“Still going to tell Jenner,” he said.

“Don’t,” she said quickly.

He raised his eyebrows, but didn’t say anything.

Immy let out a deep breath. “She didn’t mean to mark me and I don’t want her to get into trouble for an accident.”

“What if it wasn’t an accident?”

What? Was he saying that Lauren had been trying to hurt her?

She shook her head. “She’s just intense. I know she’s trying to do her best for Jenner.”

“By throwing that other woman at him? Didn’t realize he needed a pimp. How often has she wanted him to take that other singer out?”

Lauren had done that, even though Jenner refused each time.

“Tobias! She’s not . . . she’s not trying to pimp him!” she said, horrified by his insinuation.

“No? Kind of seems that way.”

“Promise me you won’t tell him,” she begged. Because that would be a disaster.

He just eyed her.

“Tobias, you can’t tell him. She didn’t mean to hurt me, you’re imagining things. All she wants is to do a good job and she is. I don’t want to make things tense between her and Jenner.”

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