Page 80 of Falling for his Fake Wife

Chapter Thirty-Five

Leo lovedthat she blushed at his words. Hell, he loved everything about her. He had missed her more than he was willing to admit.

“Lucy Maud, are you okay?” Sera suddenly pushed into the room.

“I am fine, Sera, and so are the babies.” Lucy’s words were said as fast as she could, as if she were a teenager in trouble.

“That’s what Harper said, but I don’t actually believe it.” Her eyes were only for her daughter as she rushed the bed.

“Sera, I am fine. Leo is here,” Lucy said.

He was sure he’d just been thrown under the bus as a distraction for her mother. After the last time they had spoken, he was sure Sera Dean did not want to see him in her daughter’s room. She probably never wanted to see him again.

“Do not try and distract me with him. What happened?” Sera wedged herself between them, causing Leo to get off the bed to let Sera do what she needed.

“I fainted. Something about low blood sugar, and I don’t remember.” Lucy waved her hand in the air as if that explained anything.

“As if you have forgotten. What did he say?” Sera demanded.

“She. My doctor just happens to be a woman,” Lucy said, not answering the question.

“What did she say?” Sera tried again, a little bit angrier than before.

“I have to eat more. There you have it, just like you said over and over again. What do you want me to say, ‘you are right’?” Lucy crossed her arms and glared at her mother.

“Yes, that is exactly what I want you to say. Then, I want you to eat more. Have they fed you yet?” Sera looked around the room for evidence that she had eaten.

“No.”

“Why not?! What are they waiting for?” Sera made a circle around the room and headed for the door. “I will go find you something to eat.”

“Sera, no,” Lucy argued halfheartedly.

“Really, Lucy? You already forgot? I’m always right.” She pushed out of the room with a smug look on her face.

Lucy scolded him the instant the woman was out of the room. “You were supposed to deflect.”

“I didn’t know I was supposed to deflect,” he argued, because he had no clue.

“I pointed out you were here; that was your cue!” she stated as if she had told him before, and he just wasn’t getting it.

Sitting back down on the bed, he took her hand and kissed her fingers. “Maybe we need to talk about this.”

Lucy’s twin came into the room through the open door. “Talk about what?”

Leo looked at the woman who was wearing nearly the exact outfit Lucy was, though hers was dressier, like she had been at the college when she got the call. He was beginning to think that the sisters didn’t even notice that they did it.

“When to deflect,” he informed the new arrival, who was followed closely by her husband.

“Whenever Sera has that look in her eye, deflect,” Mabel stated.

“Whenever she is staring at the woman you love intently, deflect.” Cliff hugged his wife to him and kissed her head.

“Nearly any intense look from Sera needs deflection,” Mabel argued back.

“Not always. Sometimes she’s just trying to get you to crack,” Cliff stated which made his wife nod in agreement.

“She’s always trying to get you to crack!” Lucy threw up her arms.

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