Page 53 of Bossy Baby

Hayley had to laugh. He’d been able to text his friends but hadn’t seen them since he broke his arm. Not that Mac had stopped him, but Hayley just enjoyed being with Mac. Was it bad to keep the rest of the world out of their lives so he could enjoy his Daddy on his own?

“How are you feeling?” Mitch asked him.

Hayley waved his cast around. “Not too bad. The pain comes and goes, but Mac is always there to take care of me. He doesn’t like to see me in pain.”

“I bet he doesn’t,” Mitch agreed.

“It has to be killing him to even have you hurt,” Caleb added.

“True. I’ve told him a hundred times that it wasn’t his fault, but he thinks since he was with me, he should have been able to catch me or something.” Hayley snorted. “Even though I’m the one that ran ahead.”

Caleb grinned. “Daddies, what are you going to do?”

“Yeah,” Hayley agreed.

“So heisyour Daddy?” Caleb asked slyly.

Hayley blushed. Damn, Caleb had tricked him into admitting that. He hadn’t had the chance to talk to his friends about the change in his relationship with Mac. There was only so much that Hayley could text, after all.

“That’s a yes,” Mitch announced.

“All I’ll say is that we are definitely in a relationship,” Hayley could admit that much.

“And he’s your Daddy,” Caleb added.

Hayley rolled his eyes. Caleb would push, but Hayley liked having something special that belonged to just him and Mac. Eventually, they’d share more about their relationship but right now it was just between him and Mac. They all knew he was alittle. Probably knew that Mac was a Daddy. So of course they would assume, correctly, that was the type of relationship they had.

“Can I sign your cast?” Mitch asked, his voice quiet.

“Sure!” Hayley grasped Mitch’s hands as he swept past toward the counter. Normally he would have used his other hand to grab Caleb, but yeah, he was down to one hand. That sucked.

Scooting around the counter, Hayley picked up the black Sharpie that that other customers had used to sign his cast. He handed it over to Mitch.

“That is the coolest cast I’ve ever seen,” Caleb said as he draped himself across the counter.

Hayley preened. Everyone said so. Just another thing that Mac had done especially for him.

As Mitch signed his name, his tongue stuck out in concentration.

“It’s not rocket science,” Caleb complained. “Hurry up so I can sign it too.”

“This is important,” Mitch mumbled.

“Why?” Hayley asked. He thought it was cool that everyone wanted to sign his cast. Mac’s signature was his favorite since his Daddy had put hearts all around his name.

Mitch went back to signing the cast. “Even though this was a horrible accident, do you really think that Mac won’t keep it once it comes off? It’s from your first date.”

Hayley stared at Mitch while he finished working. Mac wouldn’t want to keep his cast, would he? The more he thought about it, the more certain Hayley was that Mitch was right. Hayley wanted to keep it too, though. Maybe hang it in a place on honor in the playroom.

“You’re probably right,” Hayley admitted. And if Mitch knew that about Mac, how well did Mitch know Hayley’s Daddy? Mac hadn’t given away a lot of information. Just that they had mutual friends. Another topic that Mac didn’t like to discuss.

But did Mitch know the secret that Hayley thought he knew?

Hayley checked out the lawyer with new interest.

He didn’t think that anything romantic or sexual had ever happened between Mac and Mitch. Surely, Mac would have told him that. Mac did seem to text Mitch a lot. He never tried to hide it, though. When Mac received a message, he’d casually mention that it was from Mitch. They were friends. Just friends. Hayley didn’t have anything to worry about. Mac wouldn’t betray him like that.

Plus Mitch had his own Daddy. Hayley had only met Byron a handful of times—the professor was busy. When he wasn’t teaching, he was helping Master Finn remodel the BDSM club they were members of.

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