Page 87 of Her Daddies' Everything

“Was walking up the stairs toward her when she went flying through the air,” Tobias snapped.

Yikes.

He really sounded mad.

She leaned back to look into his face. “You sound mad.”

“I am mad!”

“I’m not sure why. But you should probably do something about that. You’ll give yourself an ulcer. Or gray hair. Not that you wouldn’t look good with gray hair. No, not good. Hot. Um, no, I didn’t mean that. I meant, distinguished. That’s what I meant!”

Please, God.

Someone stop me from talking.

“Already getting the gray hair and the ulcer, too,” he said.

She nodded. “Yep, that’s what I thought. Maybe you should take up yoga. I can help you. I’m a yoga expert.”

“Since when?” Jenner asked, moving closer.

She glanced over at him. He had a strange look on his face that she couldn’t decipher.

And then she realized that Tobias was still holding her in his arms.

“You can put me down, now,” she said.

Shoot. Where did the sheets go? Yep, there they were, all over the stairs. Great.

“I put you down, you gonna slow down and not rush around and risk breaking your damn neck?” Tobias asked.

“That’s a dollar,” she told him.

“Thought I didn’t have to pay?”

“That was before. Things change. Keep up,” she advised him.

“Can someone help me keep up,” Jenner said. “What are you doing carrying sheets down the stairs, Immy?”

“Um, because they need to go to the laundry to be washed.”

Jenner put his hands on his hips. “Are you allowed to carry things up and down the stairs?”

She groaned. “Not this again.”

“What’s this?” Tobias asked.

“Immy has a rule for using stairs,” Jenner replied. “She tends to be a bit clumsy on stairs.”

“I’m not clumsy,” she muttered. “I’m just normally in a hurry.”

“When going up and down stairs, she has to have one hand on the rail at all times and she’s not allowed to run or carry anything.”

“Smart rule,” Tobias said. “She needs it.”

“She does,” Jenner said. “And now there need to be consequences for breaking it.”

Well. This was just rude.

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