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And I was okay with that

“You are so going to have to dance with her at our wedding,” Ethan said once his mom had wandered off to the kitchen

I laughed and said, “Is that you asking me to marry you?”

“No,” Ethan said His fingers brushed at the hair aboveto be much more memorable than that”

“So, you’re going to ask me?” I said “Does that mean I can’t ask you?”

Ethan smiled “No, it doesn’t mean that at all”

A loud sigh cairl had definitely settled into her new role as our kid just fine “What’s up, Lucy?” Ethan asked

She finally put down her phone and swung her hair over her shoulder She’d started to let her natural hair color return so it was an odd mix of mostly black and a brownish-reddish color at the roots I’d heard her in deep conversations with Ethan’s sister about the pitfalls of coloring versus not coloring her hair to match her real color, but I’d wisely made myself scarce for that conversation

“Can I go to the ht?”

“It’s a school night,” Ethan reh Lucy had started school only a week earlier, she’d ed to amass a slew of new friends

“I’ll be holanced at me and said, “And no, there won’t be any boys there”

I sround check on any boy she brought hoed me five minutes later when I’d backed off my threat after she’d promised to let me show her some self-defense moves

“What do you think?” Ethan asked me

“I think her eye-gouging is good, but she needs to work on the neck jabs and she’s nowhere near ready to break someone’s nose” Ethan shovedwide

“Fine, you can go But nine, not ten And if you’re late, he,” – Ethan pointed toyou and your friends to and from school for a month”

“Ew, no,” Lucy said “Allme how hot they think he is!”

“Your friends have good taste,” Ethan said with a smile “Nine o’clock, Lucy, and not a minute later”

“Fine,” she harru up, her eyes back on her phone as she began texting as she walked towards the kitchen I wasn’t surprised when she stopped behind the couch ere sitting on so she could wrap her arive him a kiss on the cheek There was no hesitation on her part or tension on mine when she did the salued to her phone as she left the room

“Her friends think I’m hot,” I said to Ethan with a wink

He laughed and kissed rew heated and I was about to roll him beneath me on the couch, his family be damned, when the front door opened and Ethan’s father and oldest brother strolled in

“Son,” Ethan’s dad said knowingly as he took in his son’s flushed cheeks