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Immensely.

Before I could go into much more detail with Attie, my pager went, causing me to curse.

“Shit,” I growled. “I gotta go,” I said without even looking at the readout.

I only got paged when I was needed, and apparently, I was needed.

Aspen came up to me and placed her lips against my jaw.

“Be safe,” she whispered.

I smiled down at her, dropped a kiss on her lips, then walked to my daughter.

My daughter was watching the two of us with an enraptured gaze, her eyes on the both of us as they bounced back and forth.

Once I reached Attie, I dropped a kiss on her head, then dropped down onto my haunches so I could look into her eyes.

“You need to think long and hard about this, baby,” I urged. “A baby at sixteen would be really tough. Although I’m not telling you to do anything rash, I want you to figure out where your head is at when I come talk to you, okay?”

She nodded.

“I’ll think about it all, Daddy. I know this is a huge decision,” she promised.

“And you can talk to Aspen, too. But you already know that, don’t you?”

She nodded, smiling shyly.

“I like her, Daddy,” she whispered.

I smiled.

“I like her, too, baby,” I whispered back conspiratorially.

***

“Whoa, Rambo. Take a chill pill.”

I looked over at Tai, shooting daggers at him from my hunched over position.

“Fuck you.”

Tai’s eyebrows went up.

“What’s your malfunction?” He asked.

“Why are you even here. I’m the one who got the page,” I grumbled, crossing my arms over my chest and leaning back further in my chair.

“They called me, too. Remember?” He raised a brow. “We already spoke about this when I first got here.”

I ignored him, or at least tried to.

Tai was persistent, which was why I fisted my hands in my lap instead of rising to the bait that Tai was dangling in front of me.

“What’s wrong with you, D?” Downy asked, his eyes sharp.

I turned my gaze on to him.

“Nothing to do with your sister,” I muttered darkly.