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“I’m claiming you. You’re mine. I take care of you. This is part of that.”
“You can’t just buy me stuff. The pizza is enough. All of this . . . it’s not being restrained, Tanner.”
“I’m a Malone.” He shrugged. “We don’t like restraints.”
“That’s a shame,” Opal drawled, finishing up her fifth piece of pizza. Where she put all of that, Lilac had no idea. She was still picking apart her first piece.
Tanner gave the bits of pizza on her plate an annoyed look. Then he turned to wink at Opal. “Well, we like to use restraints on other people.”
“Thank fuck. I wouldn’t want to think that such a hunk of man candy was a dud in the sack.”
“Opal,” she groaned.
“What? Just looking out for you, my friend. She could use a good fucking,” she told Tanner. “Help relax her.”
“Opal!” she shouted.
Kye let out a cry and she immediately felt terrible. She grasped hold of her head. Why couldn’t she get anything right?
“Lilac, hey. It’s all right,” Tanner said soothingly. He lifted her onto his lap.
“Shit, babe, I didn’t mean to upset you.”
Opening her eyes, she saw Opal watching her worriedly.
“I’m fine. Sorry.”
“I’m going to take Kye for a walk,” Opal said, getting up.
A walk? She glanced out the window.
“It’s not that warm out,” she said worriedly.
“Don’t worry, babe. I won’t be long.”
Picking Kye up, Opal bundled him up in a warm blanket and stepped outside.
“She shouldn’t walk around outside in the cold with him,” she said. “I’m going to go get her.”
Tanner wrapped his arms around her. “She’s giving us a moment to ourselves.”
She was? Oh. She should have realized that.
“Opal can be thoughtful.”
“Yeah. She also doesn’t have much of a filter, does she?” he said.
Lilac snorted. “No. Sorry about everything she said. I hope you’re not embarrassed.”
“I’m not embarrassed,” he reassured her. “But I don’t like seeing you upset.”
“I’m fine. I just . . . I shouldn’t have yelled like that. I upset Kye.”
“Kye is fine. He knows that he’s got three women wrapped around his little finger. Lucky kid.” He winked at her.
She shook her head. “I really think I should pay you for the groceries.”
“And I think you should shut up about that before I spank your ass.”
