Page 88 of Devil in Disguise

Dante

“Dante, calm down.”

If one more person told me to calm down, I was going to start hurting people, starting with the handsome fucker glaring at me. He was the cause of most of my problems lately and while I loved the bastard to pieces, I couldn’t take much more. Between his accident, memory loss, keeping important shit from me, and his antagonistic behavior toward Missy, I was at my wits’ end.

He had to see it, right?

“I don’t understand what she’s doing,” I snapped as our daughter moved her hands in the air like she just didn’t care. What was she doing? Striking a pose?

“Words, Dani,” Missy said, placing a calming hand on my shoulder.

“No.”

I groaned, hanging my head. “I don’t know what she wants. She points to the door but says no. The girls went outside. Does she want them to come back? Is she lonely?”

“Dante, calm down,” Missy said, and Danny smirked. God, I wanted to slap that smug look off his face, but hitting was bad. At least, that’s what that stupid baby book I read said.

“Dani wants to play in the snow. She is still learning her words, so they don’t always sound the right way.”

Sighing, I felt two inches tall. How in the hell could I forget to buy her winter gear? We were in fucking Nebraska after all. “We don’t have winter stuff for her.”

Missy gave me a quick hug. “You are doing great, Dante.”

“We have some extra things here for Tabby. I’ll go grab them,” Ryder piped up.

“Thanks, Ryder,” Danny said.

“I don’t feel like it. She just kept swinging her hands around,” I tried to explain when Missy interrupted me.

“Dani and I learned sign language. It’s easier for babies to learn sign language than it is for them to learn to talk. So, in order to communicate, her and I would watch YouTube videos in the evening. This is my fault. We haven’t had a chance to sit down and go over everything.”

“It’s been a bit chaotic,” Danny added.

Haizley walked over and suggested, “Why don’t you let Dani play with the girls outside, and the four of us can sit down and talk?”

“I don’t know.” I hesitated, looking between Missy and Danny. Neither one looked receptive to anything.

“Amber and Aspen are both out there along with five brothers, and where Aspen goes, Diesel goes. She will be perfectly safe,” Haizley assured us.

“Ok,” I muttered as Danny glared at me and Haizley walked with a reluctant Missy into church.

As Haizley stood on one side of the table, Danny moved to the other, sitting at the far end, far away from Missy, who sat on the opposite end, leaving me to sit in the middle.

Shaking my head, I sat and sent up a quick prayer for patience, because there was not enough coffee in the world to get me through this shit.

“Now, Missy and I have been friends for a long time. But I have also been working with Danny and Dante for the last few weeks. There are several things we need to talk about before we get to the topic of Danika. Would anyone like to go first?”

“I’m angry,” Missy started.

“We know you’re fucking angry. You’ve made that abundantly clear,” Danny clipped as I slowly turned to look at the man, narrowing my eyes at him, silently begging him to play nice. I got a shoulder shrug as a response.

“Tell us why you’re angry, Missy.”

“I’m angry they left. I’m angry that Danny lied not only to me, but to Dante. I’m angry that he lied to Danika.”

“How the fuck—”

“Danny, wait,” Haizley cut him off with a hand in the air.

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