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There was a slight pause, and then…
“I offered to share,” Cole said, making her lips twitch, damn him!
“Just put me down, Cole,” Chloe said, hoping to forget all of her problems and lose herself in crappy movies and an unhealthy amount of sugar for a few hours.
“Tell me what’s wrong,” the stubborn jerk said.
“Nothing’s wrong!”
“Tell me!”
“No!”
“I’m not putting you down until you tell me,” Cole said, sounding bored.
“I’m not telling-” Chloe began to say only to end up screaming, “We’re not a charity case!” when the jerk relaxed his hold on her and made her drop an inch before tightening his hold back around her ankles to make her jerk to a stop.
“What?” he asked, sounding confused.
“We’re not a charity case! Are you happy now?” Chloe snapped as he took a step back and-
Dropped her.
“Jerk,” she mumbled into her comforter.
“So, let me get this straight. You’ve been pouting all day because you think that I’m treating you like a charity case?” Cole asked, sounding thoughtful as Chloe pushed herself up, only to end up sighing when he pulled her down next to him so that he could throw his arm around her as she pushed her glasses back up her nose.
“Yes,” Chloe mumbled sadly, only to glare at him when he followed that up with, “I think of you as a pain in the ass, not a charity case,” sounding confused.
Nodding slowly, Chloe said, “You can leave now.”
Shrugging it off, Cole reached over and grabbed the bowl of M&Ms off her nightstand and placed it on his lap. “You’d miss me.”
“I’m pretty sure that I’d find a way to go on,” Chloe said absently as she glanced around the bed, searching for that bag of Reese’s Pieces that she’d lost when the jerk decided to manhandle her and-
“I already hid them,” Cole said, making her shoulders sag in defeat as she reached over and grabbed a handful of M&M’s.
“You’re a jerk,” Chloe mumbled sadly as she shoved the delicious treat in her mouth.
“And you love me,” Cole said with a satisfied sigh as he finished off another handful of candy.
“Itolerateyou,” Chloe said as her gaze shifted to her alarm clock and realized that it had been a few hours since the last time that Katie appeared in her doorway to glare at Cole.
Having a really bad feeling why, Chloe climbed off the bed and-
“Say yes,” Cole said, making her sigh.
“That’s really not an option,” Chloe said, pausing by the door to pull her sneakers back on just in case Katie decided to dig up the backyard again in her desperate search for gold.
“And why is that?” Cole drawled, shifting to get more comfortable on her bed as she considered him, noting just how incredibly handsome he was and-
She was definitely pathetic.
“It just isn’t,” Chloe said as she made her way to the hallway and headed to her little sister’s room only to find Katie fast asleep with a box of Lucky Charms in her arms.
She was definitely a handful, Chloe thought, unable to help but smile as she took in the drawing of a leprechaun that Katie was most likely hoping to lure with the box of Lucky Charms. She was determined to get her hands on a pot of gold so that she could fix the Jeep and the house, but Chloe had a feeling that it had more to do with their uncle than anything.
Uncle Nick was never here anymore and Chloe had no idea why, but she couldn’t tell that to Katie when she asked. So, whenever her little sister asked why Uncle Nick wasn’t here, Chloe told her that he had to work. Katie wanted Uncle Nick around more and so did Chloe.
