“Jesus,” hehissed.
“What?”
He was at thefridge and had just pulled out a bottle of beer. “I have been one hell of aclass-A dickhead.”
“Yeah, kinda.” Igrinned. “But you apologized and you’re never going to do it again, because ifyou do it again, I’m gonna tell Cash.”
He rolled hiseyes. “You know, Louisa told me I was acting like Cash, so I’m not sure that’smuch of a threat.”
I gasped. “Oh mygod, your sister’s got a mean streak. You’re nothing like Cash.”
“My sisterthinks I am. At least, in this scenario.”
I closed thedistance between us and looked up at him. “Trust me, I know my brother, andyou’re nothing like him. Even in this scenario, you were tame compared to him.”
“That’sgenerous, Daisy.” He leaned down and kissed me gently. “I appreciate it.”
“Come on, let’seat. I want an excuse to dig into that pecan praline.”
“You couldalways have dessert first,” he pointed out as we made our way to the table.
“I could, but Ialso want this chicken tikka, so…”
“Fair.” Hechuckled and sat across from me, taking a swig of his beer. “What did you doafter I left?”
“Who me?”
“Yes, you.”
“Besides almostgetting a visit fromBenson and Stabler?”
He laughed,almost doing a spit take. “What the hell?”
I filled him inon the Josh saga from the night before and his eyes widened in shock. “Thelittle shit actually threatened you in a D.M.?”
“Yeah,” I said.“Can you believe that? But have no fear, I’m going to make sure he never getsinto a good college.”
“Remind me tostay on your good side.”
I chuckled. “I’mkidding. I’m not that petty. This is how I process, because our fight kind ofmessed with my head. I mean, I’ve logged into the local Weapons of Warcraftserver and scrubbed any and all existence of our chat, but of course, that’sjust preliminary stuff. By next week, I will have forgotten all aboutDeathStlker69 and his shenanigans.”
“He’s still alittle fucker.”
“Indeed,” Iagreed.
“I’m reallysorry I was an asshole.”
“I appreciatethat.”
He leaned overand kissed me gently. “Is it time for ice cream?”
“Hells yeah,it’s time for ice cream.”
Huck grinned andtook our plates to the sink.
* * *
Later that night,Huck and I were on my sofa, the TV on some random channel, I was straddlinghim, enjoying the hottest make out session on the planet.
