him, practically sending him an engraved invitation to feel how soft they were and pliable and—
“Wasn’t that girl you helped onstage adorable?”
“What? Huh?” Finn, reaching to unlock, then open Lilly’s car door, was still focused on the adult entertainment.
“Don’t tell me you already forgot her corkscrew pigtails?” she said, climbing inside the car.
Hell no, he hadn’t forgotten the girl or her baby brother. It was just that the topic of kids was too painful to bring into this lark he and Lilly called a marriage.
“You’re going to make a great father,” she said after he slid behind the wheel. “My brother says you can tell a good parent by their patience, and what with all my blubbering last night and the church thing this morning—” she transfixed him with her near-flood-stage baby blues “—what can I say? You’re a patient guy. A guy I know is going to make a great dad.”
Talk about hitting below the belt. How had Mitch known Finn yearned to be a father? The power Lilly wielded with her body already had Finn losing control. If she started talking babies, too, he’d be a goner.
Figuring the best way to avoid the issue was to ignore it, he started the car.
“Where to?” he said.
“Want to go back to the motel and talk?”
“Nah,” he said, backing out of their parking space. “It’s too early for talking. How about playing a few slots?”
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