Page 124 of Their Perfect Daddy

“I know.” Daisy squeezes my hands, then pulls back to wipe her eyes. “Now can we please discuss something else? I’m far too emotional right now. I need some comedic relief.”

“Since we’re throwing out secrets, can we finally talk about Skye’s porn hands?” Gale asks with a wide grin.

Danny giggles. “Porn hands… That’s funny.”

“We’re not supposed to call them that, Princess. Remember what he said,” Monty corrects gently as he snuggles Juni tighter.

I raise said hands, then drop them immediately when the group all begins to smirk. “How long have you known?”

All eyes turn to Storm. “It wasn’t hard to figure out. The tattoos are pretty distinct, brother.”

“Yeah, well, I didn’t think it was something you’d be watching.”

“It wasn’t me. I’d been at the bar one night and the girls next to me kept gushing about some channel they’d become obsessed with. When I looked over to get a glimpse, I damn near fell off my stool.”

Groaning, I scrub my face to shake loose the mixed-up feelings I have. On one hand, it’s good they know. I don’t have to explain it to any of them since they’re familiar. On the other, I’ma bit bothered at the thought of them watching any of my feeds. How am I supposed to keep going now that I know they watch?

“Before you overthink yourself to pieces, know the only person who’s watched more than one video is Snow,” Rayne tells me.

Poppy snorts. “Yeah, brother. Sorry not sorry, but I can’t. It’s too much for me.”

“Agreed.” The others join in to let me know I shouldn’t be worried.

My gaze turns to Snow. “Why have you watched so many of them then? It doesn’t make sense.”

His return stare is a blast from the past. Gone is the brother of now. In his place sits the unruly teen who was mad at the world after watching those around him get hurt. He’d wanted to protect people. Wanted to ensure the bad people of this world got what was coming to them. Part of his desire to go into tech spans from that goal. Unlike Storm who prefers to take out his enemies in a more physical form, Snow has always done his magic in the shadows.

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen this look.

“Snow?”

He shakes his head. “While I think it’s great for you to have a creative outlet, I’m also aware you likely didn’t do a lot of work on the backend to keep yourself fully anonymous”

Frowning, I open my mouth to argue that I have. He raises his hand to ask me to wait.

“As I said, I knew you didn’t do the backend work. I’m not talking about making sure your picture wasn’t seen and that the background was different. I mean rerouting your IP address so hackers couldn’t track you and sell your information. I mean weeding out spam emails and bots sending you viruses to make your system crash. I mean — ”

“I get the point. So what? You were a secret guardian over my account all this time?”

“Sure was. You got some fucking creepers after you, bro. I had to put a stop to it.”

Danny reaches a hand out toward Snow. My brother frowns, though he leans over anyway. The second their hands touch, I see the tension leave his body as Danny smiles at him.

“Thank you for protecting him. We might have never met him if someone bad went after him first.”

Snow dips his head in understand. “I’m glad he found you both. He clearly needs more people watching his back.”

He softens the words with a wink, to which my boy giggles and leans deeper into Monty’s side. My other partner is still enamored with Juni, though I can tell from the tightness in his shoulders he isn’t happy knowing I could have been hurt before now.

“Thank you,” he says softly.

Conversation afterward drifts into other topics. I think everyone is aware of how heavy the day turned, and they’re happy to get it back on track. It’s only later as we’re finally back home in in bed that Monty opens up.

“I don’t enjoy the idea of never having you. If I’d missed out on this, I’d still be lonely in my old life. Promise me you’ll be safer, Daddy.”

“Now that I know, I’ll be even more careful. And Snow isn’t going to let anything happen to me. He’s really damn scary with all that tech stuff when he puts his mind to it.”

“Good. The world needs scary good people in it.”

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