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“But it’s the truth,” I say, unable to hide the passion in my voice “I felt it the moone behind your back”

“So what happened, exactly?” she ist of it”

I take a deep breath, wondering how I can put this into words Then I tell her, as best I can, about laying eyes on Sadie and knowing that I had to claim her, about the closeness that erupted between us I keep all the sexual aspects out of it, which does a disservice to the effect Sadie has on me, the potent sexuality that hter

“And you’re happy?” she says “Both of you?”

“Yes,” Sadie and I say at the same tilancing between us

Fiona laughs, the last thing I expected her to do

The laughter goes on and on, taking on a shaky quality, almost manic, and for a dread-filled hter insane

“I’lad,” she whispers

“What!” Sadie and I say, again at the same time

We exchange a glance at each other She s how serious this all is and wipes her expression clean

“Glad?” I mutter a moment later

“Well, I thought it ht just be a hookup, and that would’ve been weird I don’t know, maybe it’s crazy But I think that would be orse than this The way you two are looking at each other right now, it’s so cute, it’s so real I’ve never seen you like this before dad—either of you”

“Wait a second,” I say

“You knew?” Sadie says, getting in there before me

“Sort of,” she says “Well, I knew that so on”

“When? How?”

“The night I ca forward “I didn’t accidentally set the alarht I found you two in the study You were sitting in Dad’s lap, Sadie, and you didn’t exactly look like you were hating it, you know? I didn’t knohat to do I acted on instinct I ran to the door and I put in the wrong code for the alar it off”