Page 64 of Keep My Secrets

“Is that a problem?” He goes to respond, but I cut him off before he gets a chance. “What is your favorite thing to do when I come home from a work trip you weren't able to attend?” I see the gears turning in his head. He stays quiet because he knows what he wants to say can't be said around my niece’s precious ears.

“We don’t have kids, so we get to play the way we want whenever we want. You can go one night without me in bed, so that our friends can have a child-free night.”

“I like her, you should keep her,” Eddie interjects as he steals my spoon full of ice cream.

“Well, he did marry me, so he is kind of stuck with me.”

“You understand that you are choosing to tell me no.”

“And that means when we drop Lettie back off with her lovely parents, it's your turn to play?”

“Yes,”

“And I welcome it.” Theo grabs my waist and pulls me in.

“You’re in trouble.”

“Daddy, I am trouble.”