Page 39 of Property of Stone
Taryn’s mouth gaped for a second as she turned wide eyes toward him. “Nut Sack?”
“Prospect,” he answered.
“Oh, I thought his name was Gooch.”
“Sent Gooch with you yesterday, but he ain’t the only prospect.”
“Oh. Did he choose that nickname?”
“Fuck no.”
Her eyes widened again when he cursed. This time he realized it was an unspoken message. He shrugged in answer. “So, anyway, now you two met.”
“Are you hungry?” Taryn asked Sunny. “I made Million Dollar Pasta. Have you ever had it before?”
“No.”
While he loved his baby girl and would do anything for her, Stone’s patience was currently running thin.
Taryn’s eyebrows pinched together. “No, you’re not hungry or no, you haven’t had it before?”
His daughter set her jaw and spouted, “Just no. No to you. No to this whole thing.”
For fuck’s sake.“All right, go up to your room and watch TV or somethin’ before you get grounded.”
“Grounded for what?” Sunny screeched.
Stone winced. “For whatever I want. Could start with that shitty attitude you got.”
“I don’t?—”
He pointed toward the front of the house. “Upstairs. Will call you when we’re ready to eat.”
“But—”
“No. Upstairs. Now.”
With a grumble, Sunny jerked her backpack out of his hand and stomped away.
With his eyes squeezed shut in an attempt to keep his shit together, he waited until he heard her bedroom door slam before turning back to Taryn.
She was now leaning back against the counter with her arms crossed over her chest, making her tits look bigger than they actually were. It also made him want to bury his face in her cleavage.
“She don’t like change.”
“Most people don’t.”
Stone’s eyes rose from her tits. “Kid gets anythin’ she needs, even shit she don’t. No reason for that bullshit.”
“She’s a child. And on that note…do you always curse like that in front of her?”
“Hard to avoid it. Anyway, she’s so used to hearin’ it, ain’t any big deal.”
“Unless she uses them herself where she shouldn’t. Like at school.”
“She don’t. Told her they’re big persons’ words and she ain’t allowed to use them.”
She leveled a skeptical look in his direction.
