Page 60 of Who's Your Daddy

He was ridiculous…but he was cute, so I needed to give him another kiss. “Boyfriend kisses are firmer and look serious. No smiling.”

He kept trying to smile.

“I will do my best not to smile or twitch when you call me Enzo and look so boring.” Daddy stood straighter and nodded. “We can do it. You’re right. No one has to see my Terrence unless that’s what we decide. Everyone else gets boring us.”

“Perfect.” Now I just had to make sure I remembered to stay in character and not call him Daddy.

“You ready?” Daddy took my hand, still looking slightly worried and Daddy-ish, but I wasn’t sure he was a good-enough actor to look boring at the moment.

“Yes.” The worst that could happen was that they didn’t like me and they finally stayed away when I was over at Daddy’s house. “It’s going to be fine.”

“It will.” Kissing my head, he did his best to look like my boring contractor. “We’re going to handle their nosy behavior as best we can and then leave when it gets to be too much.”

No, we were going to do our best to teach them manners and then we’d leave when they got to be too much.

“As long as I don’t have to hear the doorbell anymore tonight, I’ll be fine.” And I was going to get a cheeseburger and fries and dessert and have lots of stories to tell Leander.

It was going to drive him crazy that they didn’t have any manners.

Daddy kept his boring face in place. “We’re going to look for a new sound. You’re right. That one is…well, I’ve heard it a bit too much.”

“Maybe we can find one that plays a different sound each time?” That would be easier to listen to. “Oh, and you need a camera on the back of the house. I don’t know who to punish if I can’t tell who tries to pick the lock.”

He sighed but nodded. “You’re right. I let it go on too long.”

Because he was too nice.

I wasn’t big but I also wasn’t nice.

I’d take care of Daddy.

“It’ll be okay, Enzo.” Ha. Remembered. “See?”

I was very proud of myself but I managed to still look big. D—Enzo even noticed and gave me a grown-up kiss. “Yes. It’ll be fine and then we’ll come back and have a quiet evening.”

Yeah, we were definitely going to need time to recuperate.

“If anyone asks what we’re doing later, we’re just boyfriends hanging out.” What did regular couples do around the holidays? “We’ll tell them…oh, we’ll tell them we’re going to watchDie Hard. Leander said that’s a grown-up,look manly and boringChristmas movie.”

I was being helpful but Daddy sighed. “I likeDie Hard.”

He seemed sad about that, so I took his hand and gave it a squeeze. “That’s okay. No one is perfect.”

At least he wasn’t trying to make me kneel while he watched football.

“I don’t know what to say to that, but I think we’re ready to go.” Daddy stood straighter and went back to looking very boring.

“Good job, Enzo.” He did that so well, I was starting to see why I hadn’t realized he was a Daddy before. Hell, I could see why I hadn’t realized he liked guys either. It was going to be very handy, but it was going to take some getting used to.

“Thank you.” Daddy didn’t seem to understand what he’d done right, but he was smart enough to go with the flow.

“You’re welcome.”

And we were off.

Wow.

They were fast.

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