“I beat the shit out of him in the parking lot.”
Lottie sat on his couch, staring at him.
Mo stood at his island, staring at her.
Seconds ticked by and through them, he watched her face gethard.
There it was.
He was an asshole, just like his dad, except anout-of-control one, not a control-freak one.
And now she knew it.
“Good,” she bit.
He felt his entire body jerk.
“What?”
“Good,” she snapped.Then she yelled, “What a dick!”Shejumped to her feet just as Mo heard the door to the condo open.“Seriously!Totaldick!”
“Everything cool?”
Mo twisted to see Mag standing there, looking alert while heglanced between Lottie and him.
“No,” she clipped.“Mo’s dad’s a dick!”
Mag turned his attention to Mo.
“I mean, he ruined his sister’s wedding day!”Lottieshouted, so in her snit, it was like she hadn’t really registered Mag hadentered, even if she was responding to him, which was something since not manywomen missed Mag doing anything.“Whodoesthat?”
“I see your relationship has moved to Tales from theDarkside,” Mag remarked.
“It happens,” Mo replied.
“Warp speed, brother,” Mag returned.“Heard you two didn’tmake it ‘official,’” he did the air quotation marks just to be an asshole,“until yesterday morning.”
“We didn’t,” Lottie butted in.
Mag looked back to her, fighting a grin and murmuring,“Mm-hmm.”
“We didn’t,” Lottie repeated.
“All right, darlin’.I totally believe you,” Mag said.
Lottie gave up on that (wisely) and turned to Mo, throwingan arm out at Mag.“So, he’s not the one who’s a god?”
Mag also turned back to Mo, brows raised, no longer fightinganything.Smiling flat-out.
“I told her about Auggie,” he shared.
“Right,” Mag murmured.He went back to Lottie.“Mo’s theonly real god among us.He put up with Tammy for two years before she did himthe colossal favor of breaking up with him.”
Mo looked to the ceiling.
Terrific.
He had no clue she’d already met Tammy.
