“Sit on her!”
“You do it!” Danny snapped back at his father, who was pressed against the door, trying to stop Jodi from making another escape.
“Please! I just want to go on one ride, two at the most,” Jodi said with that damn perky smile that she’d been trying to use on them for the last couple of hours as she pulled at the collar of the tee-shirt they’d finally managed to get on her an hour ago. It was one of his shirts and she was practically swimming in it, but at least she was covered.
“We’re not taking you to the Magic Kingdom,” he said, realizing that he probably sounded like a broken record by now.
“I don’t need you to take me. I can take one of the hotel’s super friendly, fast service shuttles,” Jodi said with that damn smile that was starting to make his eye twitch.
“Jodi,” his father said softly, “sweetheart, I don’t think that right now is a good time for you to go to the park.”
“Oh,” she said, scrunching her face up adorably as she considered his words. “Then, can I have something to eat?”
His father sagged against the door as he mumbled, “Thank God.”
“What would you like, Tinkerbelle?” Danny asked soothingly, hoping not to startle her into skipping to another subject since food was safe. They could handle feeding her and if she was eating, that meant that she wasn’t driving them out of their fucking minds and, not that he would ever admit this, scaring the shit out of them.
“Can I have a burger and fries? And a chocolate milkshake? Or a root beer float?” Jodi asked with a hopeful smile.
“You can have whatever you want,” Danny said, leaning down and brushed his lips against hers, glad that she was finally settling down.
“Write down how she likes her burger and I can go get-” his father began to say, sounding really fucking hopeful.
“I’m getting her burger,” Danny snapped, turning around to glare at his father.
“I’m getting it,” his father snapped back, pushing away from the door.
“You’re the one that gave her the medicine,” Danny pointed out, keeping his gaze locked on his father as he reached out and grabbed his wallet. “You should stay and monitor her.”
“You’re the one that gave her rugburn!”
“He really did,” Jodi said with a dreamy little sigh and smile that he forced himself to ignore and headed for the door.
“I’ll be back in twenty minutes,” Danny said to his father. “Please, just watch her.”
He thought that his father was going to argue, but much to his surprise, his father stepped away from the door with a nod. Thankful for a break, even a small one, Danny left the room and headed towards the elevator, praying the entire time that Tinkerbelle would be sound asleep by the time he returned, so that he could pretend for at least one night that his father didn’t know that he’d skipped getting matching Mickey ears with his family so that he could fuck his girlfriend raw.
Chapter 34
“So…” Ethan said, facing the small woman watching him curiously and having absolutely no idea what to say to the woman that his son was obviously head over heels in love with.
She blinked adorably up at him.
Just blinked.
“Have you ever been to Disneyworld before?” he asked, just to break the increasingly awkward silence.
Nothing.
“We brought Danny here when he was two, but shortly after that, the ban started,” Ethan said, expecting a comment or question about the ban, but instead, she simply stood there, blinking and starting to freak him out a little bit.
“When they finally lifted the ban a few months ago, Mary decided that it was time to bring the kids down here. We-”
“Why do you hate Danny so much?” Jodi suddenly asked, startling the hell out of him.
“I don’t hate him,” Ethan said, blinking down at the small woman.
“You don’t talk to him,” she said, blinking up at him curiously.
