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“Who me?” He put his hand to his chest. “I will be restrained like always.”
He grinned as he left, listening to her groan.
21
“What’s all this?” Opal walked out of the room, carrying Kye. She stared around at the food in amazement.
“This is Tanner restraining himself, apparently,” Lilac replied dryly as she put away another bag of groceries.
“There’s enough food here to feed an army for a month.”
“Really?” Tanner said, eyeing the bags of food skeptically. “This is as much as Mia used to get when we were all living on the Ranch.”
“How many brothers do you have?” Opal asked.
“A lot. I’ve lost track.”
Whatever.
He was such a liar.
She reached down to put the milk in the bottom of the fridge. As she stood up, the room spun slightly.
“Lilac? You okay?” His arm went around her.
Okay? No, she didn’t think she was at all. Ryleigh was sick and not with them. Lilac had gone over to see her before, but Linc had told her that she was sleeping.
He’d been kind of cold and standoffish, which had hurt. Because she’d been starting to think of him as a friend.
She’d likely been fired from her job at the diner. And she didn’t know how she was going to earn the extra money they needed to fix Sugar.
Oh, and Tanner thought he was claiming her. God only knew what that meant exactly, but she had a feeling her life was about to change.
“I’m all right. Just stood up too quickly.”
“Right. Sit down. I’ve got pizza.” He ushered her over to the table.
“Pizza!” Opal put Kye down on his blanket on the floor, before digging into the pizza.
Lilac wished they could get him more things—stuff that other babies had. But they needed every cent at the moment.
However, she knew what the polite thing to do was. Even if she’d never have bought all these name brand items. What was Tanner thinking?
“How much do I owe you for the groceries?” she asked as Tanner grabbed a piece of pizza. “And for Ryleigh’s visit to the doctor?”
He froze.
That was a strange reaction.
“What did I say?” she asked.
“You’re not paying for the groceries,” Tanner said in a low growl. “Or the medical bill.”
“But . . . you can’t just buy us all this stuff and pay for the doctor.”
“I can. And we already had this conversation.”
They had?
