“And you have to share Yolko Ono with Decker.”
Bash grins.
Yolko Ono bagocks.
Jonas sucks in a breath and takes a half step back, and I laugh.
I actually laugh.
“Okay. Pizza party it is. Go find your pizza party pajamas, and I’ll invite our guests.”
Bash drops Yolko Ono, who bagocks again and startles Jonasagain. And then my little tornado tears off up the stairs.
Jonas sighs as I rise back to my feet, watching while Bash’s little legs disappear. “It’s okay if he doesn’t want me here. He knows I made you cry.”
“Generally, leaving isn’t the best way to solve a problem.”
He winces.
I take his hand, realize what I’ve done, and drop it again, my pulse skyrocketing. “I didn’t mean—”
“I will deserve that until the end of time.”
If there’s one thing I’ve learned since my failed wedding, it’s that I need to not sayit’s okayquite so much. “I forgive you,” I say instead, “and I understand if you can’t yet forgive yourself.”
He studies me, those beautiful brown eyes flickering over my face. “Bash has no idea how lucky he got with the mama lottery, does he?”
“None of us ever do. Can you invite Begonia and Hayes and Marshmallow? I need to ping Zen and the triplets, and then order pizza.”
“Is there any chance you’ll let me order the pizza?”
“No.”
“Had to ask.”
“You can fix the hot tub though. Thank you.”
He smiles at me, but this isn’t aknock you off your feet with all of that movie star beautysmile.
This is a soft smile that saysI want to hug you again.
And it sends a full body shiver racing across my skin and down to my bones.
Something just shifted.
And I don’t know if I’m ready for it.
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Jonas
“You’re planningto fix that with YouTube and willpower?” Hayes asks me as the two of us hang out by the broken hot tub while the pizza party’s winding down.
And bywinding down, I mean everyone else has left except for me, Hayes, Begonia, and Zen.
Bash has remained largely unimpressed with me tonight, choosing Zen and Begonia over everyone else. That’s why they’re still here. He insists that they help give him a bath and put him to bed.
Or possibly he’d do that anyway.
