Page 83 of Havoc's Fox

“Family. Spending time with your parents, uncles, cousins and all.”

“My parents aren’t even here. They went on vacation.”

“Vacation?! I didn’t hear nothing about that.”

“Nobody did. It was a spur of the moment thing.”

“You don’t seem too happy for them.”

She smirked at Havoc. “They got wind of what was happening with us and figured out that Emmalyn was chasing Barron around and decided they didn’t want to be in the middle anymore. They left and took my rental car! They didn’t even ask.”

“They didn’t tell y’all before they left?”

“Not a word. Left a note telling us to fix our messes because they were tired of being in the middle.”

Havoc thought about, started chuckling and ended up laughing.

“It’s not funny.”

“It really kind of is. Uncle Bam is the one uncle I thought would never stop parenting. If we’re driving even him nuts, I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. It’s probably a bad thing.”

“It’s not a bad thing! And I kinda resent you think that it is.”

“Oh, okay. Sorry, I thought you thought it was a bad thing.”

“I don’t know what I think.”

“Really? Three days of no contact at all and you still don’t know what you’re thinking?”

“Is your daughter here?”

“She is. I’ll get her, or you can go get her. It’s right up those stairs, I believe you still know the way.”

Analise glared at him as she stalked past on her way up to the staircase and then up the stairs to the front door. She raised a hand to knock, and the door was suddenly flung open from the inside.

“Analise!” Harley screeched!

“Harley!” Analise screeched, mimicking Harley’s pitch and tone.

Harley jumped on Analise and Analise caught her up in a hug. “You ready to go on a walk?”

“Yes. But come see my room first.”

“Your room? You have your own room?”

“I do. Me and Daddy are going to move down here and he’s putting up a fence so I can get a puppy. And I said you could sleep in the extra room if you want to come visit and Daddy said that if you are in this house you will spend the night in his room. And that’s fine with me because then you will be like my momma, and I think you’d be a really good momma.”

Analise turned to look over her shoulder at Havoc, just about ready to throw something at him, until she realized he was standing there wearing a stunned expression on his face, completely shocked by Harley’s statement as she was herself.

“Come on, come on, come see my room!”

“Okay, I’m coming. Where is it?” Analise asked, allowing Harley to lead her into the house.

Havoc stood where he was, focused on his front door where he’d just seen Harley pull Analise into the house to show off her room. “Well, shit,” he grumbled, knowing what he had to do when he got a chance to talk to Analise alone.

A little later they came out of the house, Harley excitedly clinging to Analise’s hand and skipping along beside her.

“Bye, Daddy!” Harley called as they walked past him.

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