“I guess I’ll get up and take care of this one.”She turned her attention to Carter.“Guess we blew you having a long nap, didn’t we little guy?”She knew from experience there would be no getting him back to sleep anytime soon.Not unless they went for a long drive and she wasn’t even going to suggest it, not with everything that had happened lately.
“Nah, I’ll take him.I just needed to put him down and with you he was less likely to have a fit,” Smokey said pulling on his jeans.She watched as the thick denim slid up over his ass, then was pulled snug as he fastened the buttons.“Babe, keep looking at me like that and I’ll tell Hawkeye to screw himself, then get one of the other old ladies to watch the squirt while I wipe that hungry look off your face.”
Tania blinked then shook her head and grinned up at him.“
“I wouldn’t say no if you want to do that later, but you better go see what he wants.”She glanced around, wondering how long they’d been up here.“Shit.I better go down too.Fletch said he’d have the changes done to my paperwork in an hour and that’s already passed.”She lifted Carter to blow raspberries into his belly then set him in the middle of the bed before getting up.“Where can I do laundry?We’re running out of clean things.”
“There’s a laundry room down the hall, but go online and order whatever you need.”
“With what?”she asked as she searched for her underwear.“I may have money on paper but I don’t have any way to access it.”
“Here.”He reached for his wallet that had been sitting on the dresser.“Use this.”He handed her a credit card.
“Thanks, I’ll be careful how much I spend, and I’ll pay you back as soon as I get access to the money.”
Smokey grunted but didn’t respond as he sat on the edge of the bed to put on his socks and boots.Tania found her panties hanging from a drawer knob on the dresser.She plucked them off and put them on, wondering how in the hell he’d managed to get them there.
When he’d finished dressing, Smokey scooped Carter up off the bed then moved to where Tania sat on the foot of the bed putting on her leggings.He bent and placed a kiss on top of her hair, then lowered Carter.
“Give Mommy a kiss so we can go downstairs,” he said to their son.She tilted her head back and accepted a sloppy kiss from the baby.“Come on down when you’re ready.I’m headed to Hawkeye’s command center.I’ll ask if your papers are back yet.You can grab my laptop off the desk next to his crib if you want.”He jiggled Carter in his arms.“I don’t know if you’d rather the bigger screen for shopping.”
“I’ll do that.Thanks.”
She watched as he went into the connecting room, then left the small apartment.She took a deep breath and tried to calm her racing heart.Things were going well but would they stay that way?
Chapter Thirty-One
Smokey knocked on theopen door to the command center.
“What’s up?”he asked as he stepped inside without waiting for anyone to say anything or acknowledge him.
“Test results are in.Congratulations, you are a father.”Hawkeye spun his chair to face Smokey.“I take it this is the little guy in question?”He pulled a stack of papers off the printer on a table between his monitor setup and Pike’s.“We need a couple of signatures then I’ll send some guys over to file it with the court before it closes for the day, then to walk it over to Judge Allen.With a little luck, that one will legally be yours by the end of the day.”
“Good.Where do I sign?”Smokey shifted Carter to his left arm so he could sign the papers without having to set him down.“And Tania wanted me to ask if you’d gotten her papers back from Fletch yet.”
Shotgun shuffled through the pages, pointing out every place that needed Smokey’s signature or initials.“Not yet.If they don’t get here in the next few minutes, then we won’t be able to get them filed tonight.That’s good in one way, because it will let us make sure the kid is legally yours before the divorce has any chance of landing on the judge’s desk.”
