“Oh. Well, what do you want to do?” Kay asked.
Wasn’t that the question? “I’ve been looking for work but haven’t found anything there.”
“Here?” Kay asked. “In Florida?”
“Yes, in Miami.”
Kay rubbed his face. “You can stay with me, Daddy. You don’t have to actually have a job before you get here. And maybe you won’t like it.”
“I want to be with you guys. My rent is going up, and I’m not sure if I want to be a firefighter anymore. Staying here is becoming less and less appealing by the second.”
Donny cleared his throat. “You can stay with me when we’re in LA. Hell, when we’re both gone, you can still stay there—at my place. You don’t need to rent somewhere else.”
“You two are making this easy.” I smiled. “I’ve never done anything this risky before.” But I also had Colten. He’d help me if I needed a place to land.
“Then you should come. If your work gets mad, too bad for them,” Donny said matter-of-factly.
“I’ll call work tomorrow and see.”
“Yay!” Kay yelled. “Now that we have that settled, Donny, are we going to have a playdate with Matty?”
“I’m working on setting something up, yes.”
That was another thing. Matty was a new little-friend who would be more than likely touring with them. “Do you think I can meet Matty’s daddy?” It was important, since this new relationship with Matty was happening.
They both liked that idea a lot. The planning was moving forward. And I was about to leave LA. Maybe.
“Hey…” Donny turned to me. “Maybe Colten can come visit in Florida, too?”
“I’ll ask him.” I had a feeling Donny would try to play matchmaker with Colten and Joe.Hmm…Interesting.
Miami, FL
“What is going on in here?” Matty was dancing around. Naked. “Oh my.”
Drake and Star Fly had already worked out the business with setting up venues and were now out looking for apartments, so they could have a permanent base in Miami. That was huge, since they were all from LA. While they did that, the guys had a playdate, so Matty was here. And apparently, sans-clothes.
“Oh my…uh, Matty. Put your clothes on.”
“I don’t wanna. Dey not comfy.” He tossed his pants across the room.
Donny jumped up and down. Again. “We’re dancing, Daddy. Matty showed us how.”
“That’s fine, but we need clothes on.”
Matty pouted and sat on the floor, crisscross and arms over his chest. What the hell was I supposed to do with that?
“Matty, your daddy will be here to pick you up soon, and you’re going to need clothes on for that.” Sounded reasonable to me.
“No…” Matty jumped up and ran around the room, giving us all an eyeful of his bouncing privates. At least he wasn’t hard.
Donny and Kay laughed, which only encouraged the scamp. The whole thing was interrupted by a knocking on the door, and I was pretty sure it was Drake. I hoped it was, because I was in over my head.
I walked back through the house and opened the door. “Thank God. Matty’s a little out of control.”
“Not again.” Drake moaned. He was a big guy, and I had no doubt he could throw Matty over his shoulder and haul him out of there. He wore a Midnight Hunt T-shirt that pulled tight at his massive biceps. The man might be bigger than me. I made a mental note to set up a daddies workout together date.
But first, we needed to reel Matty in. “He’s decided he doesn’t want clothes.”
