Page 182 of Her Daddies' Everything

“What happened wasn’t your fault, Immy,” he said to her. “And any consequences for her won’t be your fault.”

“Just don’t tell Jenner. Or Sampson. Or Abe and Isaiah. Cat. Just don’t tell anyone!” she cried.

“I’ll think about it.”

It wasn’t a no, but it wasn’t a yes, either.

She’d take it.

A knockon the door surprised her as she was setting up her snack station for the movie. She’d ordered a whole lot of snacks online and they’d just gotten delivered.

Instead of a bath, she’d had a quick shower after putting in her order. So now she was in her pajamas and she had braided her hair.

Tobias walked to the door, waving her back. He checked the peephole. Then he opened the door.

Jenner walked in.

“Jenner!” she greeted him. “What are you doing here? I thought you had commitments after the concert?”

He waved his hand dismissively as he walked into the room. “Don’t worry about that. What is going on?” Stopping in front of her, he cupped her face. “Are you all right? You look pale. Is that why you left so early?”

“I’m fine. I just had a small headache.”

His frown deepened. Uh-oh.

“A small headache? Have you taken some painkillers? Why aren’t you in bed? What is all this?”

“Well, Tobias and I were going to watch a movie. Can you believe that he hasn’t seen Harry Potter?”

“Baby, the last thing you need is all this sugar and to watch a movie! You need to get into bed. I’ll rub your head and we’ll turn out the lights so you can sleep. She can’t eat all this junk food,” he said to Tobias. “It’s not good for her at any time, but especially not when she’s ill.”

“But I’m not ill!” she protested as he tried to lead her to the bed. “Tobias! Tell him that I’m not ill.”

“She’s not ill. She had a slight headache so I brought her back here and she took some painkillers.”

“See? And now we’re going to?—”

“But she did pretend her headache was worse than it was to get me to leave,” Tobias interrupted her.

“Tobias!”

“Why would she want that?” Jenner asked.

She glared at Tobias. He better not say anything if he knew what was good for him.

“She was worried I was going to cause a scene after what Lauren did.”

“Tobias, you promised not to tell him!”

“Not to tell me what?” Jenner asked. “What is going on? What happened with Lauren?”

Jenner’s phone started ringing and he silenced it.

“Shouldn’t you take that?” she asked.

“Nope. Tell me what’s going on. Now, Immy,” Jenner said sternly.

She sighed. “I was backstage when Lauren came up to me and said I shouldn’t be there. Guess she thought I was a distraction. When I refused to leave, she grabbed my arm. It was really nothing.”

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