“Um…well…”
“Mom, you can’t be pissed as shit about Dad and me lying andthen stand there and lie to my face.”
“Your mouth,” I warned.
“What are you doing with Dad?”
I didn’t know.
What was I going to do with Darius?
And what was I doing with my son?
Time to pull myself together.
“Okay, your aunt Toni and I were out doing something weprobably shouldn’t have been.Your dad and Ally caught us, and he was kindof…angry we were doing something stupid.So he brought me home to lecture me.One of Lee’s men is going to bring home my car.”
“Matt?”he asked.
So he knew Darius’s colleagues.
I loved that.
But I hated that I didn’t know.
I nodded and said, “Him or Bobby.”
“Right.What stupid thing were you and Aunt Toni doing?”
“The firm has a client I don’t trust.”
“Doesn’t the firm have an investigator who can look intothat kind of thing?”
Again, me wishing I had a dull child.
“We do contract with one when we need them, yes.I justdon’t know how deep this goes.”
“So ask Dad and his guys to find out.”
I sighed.
“I think I’m going to ask Ally,” I told him.
“That’d be good too.She’s a total badass.”
His world had expanded a lot in five months.
I loved that for him too.
And it made me jealous as all hell.
“And don’t do stupid stuff like that again,” my childscoldedme.“Dad’s right.You and Aunt Toni got no business screwingaround with that kind of stuff.”
I arched a brow.“When did you become the parent in thisscenario?”
“When you and Aunt Toni went out and did screwy stuff.Huh.”
With that, he strolled away.
