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Turning away from hi into the fa to Mely Bressard, the wife of our team’s captain As I approach, Mely pats Kate’s shoulder in commiseration and shoots me a smile as she starts to walk away "That reporter is such a bitch," Mely says over her shoulder
I nod at her with a grioes to Ben first, who see Kate’s shoulders as he gives rin I smile at him and cut my eyes to Kate "You okay?"
"I’m fine," she says, but her face is a little pale
"I’ the absolutely stupid urge to reach out and tuck her hair behind her ear
She gives me a very Kate-like snort "Don’t be sorry I wanted to punch that witch when she started asking about Ben If I hadn’t hadrat here, I think I would have, but I figured it was best to remove him from that situation rather than duke it out with her Plus, that wouldn’t have set a very good example for the little man"
I blink over the look of fierceness on her face and the protectiveness in her voice, followed up by the splash of humor to relieve the tenseness of theafter her She orried only about Ben, and that causes so warm to unfurl in my chest Now I have the insanely stupid idea to pull her in tomy head, I take a quick step back "Yeah…well, you handled that great I’ here and then we’ll be ready to go"
"Okey dokey," she says with that sweet twang and then turns away fro back over to her, and I’ She’s sort of the teaht after Gina died I know that Kate and Ben are going to be fine while I go get changed
Chapter 12
Kate
"Maybe thirty minutes until dinner’s ready," I yell out to Zack and Ben, who are in the living roo the Wii The sounds of LEGO Star Wars III float back to
I s up some fresh heads of broccoli to roast Zack loves broccoli, but Ben not so much Still, I’m resolved to have him try it periodically in the hope that he’ll start to like it My devious plan tonight is to snize what I’ood day Ben woke et on the road to the North Carolina Zoo as Zack had proot into h to have my own bathroo ht Zack was aa so excited when Zack scored a hat trick, I thought he was going to have a heart attack
That reporter bitch after the game wasn’t so fun, and I saw the pain and frustration on Zack’s face when she carelessly started asking hie filledso insensitive
Opening rabbed e in front of me I hadn’t moved the bottle two inches toward e and hairy black spider sitting behind it I shrieked, dropping the shampoo, and scurried backward away from it, lucky the nonskid mat under my feet held me in place
A second look at the massive beast while my heart threatened to burst out of my chest, and I realized it was a plastic spider
"Not funny," I screamed out pissily above the spray of water, and I heard Zack and Ben laughing at my bathroom door "You’ll pay for that"
More snickers, and then I wasdownstairs and away froetting dressed, Ben’s giggles greeted me while Zack just surfed on his laptop with the tiniest of slare, but inside I was s I think I’ve officially been accepted, as proved by that god-awful prank that I’m sure was spearheaded by Zack I never said a word about it, but stealthily plotted ainst them
The day at the zoo was so much fun, I didn’t want it to end I’ve come to learn that Ben is an ani to do so with his life that revolves around the us from exhibit to exhibit to ooh and ahh over all the creatures both scaly and furry
It was an absolute pleasure to watch Zack too Not only because he is so beyond good-looking it ought to be considered a crih in such an easygoing manner that it was hard for me to remember the acerbic way in which he used to treat reat a hockey player he is, there is no doubt inin the world is to be with his son
My heartstrings would play atune when he would hold Ben’s hand or bend down to look at one of the aniot tired later in the afternoon and he’d carry his son in his strong ar that I just wanted to wrap both of the me share in their specialness