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Cat: Lucky. I probably won’t be sitting comfortably tomorrow. Papi is not impressed about me stealing the tequila or about the fact that I wouldn’t let Rafael cut us off. Such a snitch.
Faith: Sorry.
Cat: Why? Not your fault. When you play hard, you get punished hard.
Faith: Is that your life motto?
Cat: One of them.
Faith: I’m getting a spanking for not telling Reuben that I was living in a moldy basement.
Cat: Yeah. You deserve that.
Faith: Hey, what happened to Littles sticking together?
Cat: Oh! I mean bad Reuben! So mean to spank you for keeping important things from him. Want me to make him some no-bake bars?
Faith: No!
Cat: Sheesh. No need to be rude about it.
Faith: Sorry.
Cat: Joking. So, you know how I asked Nighthawk to check into Charlie?
Faith: Yes?
Cat: Came back all clear. Squeaky clean. So, you can tell the Rubes-man that if he objects to you meeting him.
Rubes-man?
Dear Lord.
Faith: Thanks. I need to, um, lie down again.
Cat: Don’t worry, next time we’ll take it easier.
Next time? No, no, no. Faith put her phone down and shot for the bathroom, vomiting up everything in her stomach.
There wouldn’t be a next time.
Reuben stepped into the apartment, carrying a bunch of camellias. He hadn’t liked leaving his girl for as long as he had.
Not while she was sick. Self-inflicted or not.
He moved through the apartment quietly in case she was sleeping. Heading into the kitchen, he put the flowers in a vase. When he opened the fridge, he sighed as he saw that she hadn’t eaten her lunch.
That was going to earn her a warm bottom.
Half the water he’d allocated her was still there too.
Yep. Someone was in trouble. Once they were feeling better.
He wasn’t a monster.
He grabbed a bottle of water and some sliced up fruit and searched the apartment. To his surprise, he found her in the playroom.
She was in the crib. All but one of the sides were up and she was still wearing his T-shirt. Lying on her stomach, she had one leg bent up and the T-shirt had risen to reveal a pair of panties with bright pink flowers on them. Colin was held in one arm, and she had her pacifier in her mouth.
