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“Sorry I’m busy.”
She turns to Bast. I don’t know what has gotten in her, but her lip turns up on one side as anger coats her features. “Do you want to tell her father how it happened?”
“What are you talking about?” I ask.
Mom crosses her arms and scoffs. “Do you want an audience for this? Or are you coming for breakfast to talk about it?”
“Don’t raise your voice in front of my children,” Bast hisses. “If you want to speak, go to the living room.”
“I’ll take the children for a hot chocolate,” James says.
“No.” The children’s grandmother Marie’s face is coated with confusion. “I have a feeling we need to hear what she wants to say.”
I swallow, wondering what the hell everyone is thinking.
“I’ll take the children away from here,” I mumble as I take Hettie and Havana into their playroom and ask, “Do you girls want to watch a movie?”
Their grandfather, James, follows us. He smiles and says, “I’ll stay with them.”
“Thank you.”
“I know you are good for these girls,” he says, eyes shining. “They spoke non-stop about you.”
“I feel the same way about them. I love them.”
He nods. “I can see it in the way they gravitate to you, and you to them. Our daughter wasn’t so loving.”
“Sorry,” I whisper.
“Did Bast tell you anything about Madeline?”
“Nothing personal. Nothing about her as a mom.”
He nods. “He always protected her. I think he blames himself.”
I narrow my eyes. “I’m not keeping up.”
“I know that Marie will find it hard at first, but you have my blessing. The children have to come first.”
“I’m still confused.”
“You and Bast. I see the way you look at him.”
My heart hammers against my rib cage. Am I that obvious?
“And the way he looks at you.”
I wish he did.
James is obviously wanting someone permanently in his granddaughter’s lives. “We’re not a couple.”
He smiles. “I also overheard your mother talking to your father as they got out of their car. She’s pretty adamant that you’re leaving here with her today because something is going on between you and she is going to stop it.”
“It’s not her choice.” I blink hard and shake my head. “But thanks for the warning.”
After showing James where everything was in the playroom and starting a movie on the television, I stride into the living room, ready for a showdown.
My father, Brendan, sits in silence.
