Page 67 of Texting, Trouble & Touchdowns
“They’re her pack, Grey. She wants to play with them, but they just don’t get it and end up galloping around the estate.”
Greyson groans. “I hope that when you have kids, you don’t enable them the same way you do your dog.”
“She’s your niece, notjusta dog.”
“Are we done here?”
I grit my teeth. “Fine. But I’ll keep this in mind for the next time you need something.”
“I hope Sarah finds a new home where she’s properly appreciated. I’ll be thinking of her when you come crawling back,” he says, before ending the call.
Well.
I have one option left. However, I shouldn’t call her. I should just . . . figure something else out.
But I’m running out of options.
And if there’s one person on this planet who can match Sarah’s sheer willpower?
It’s Olivia.
Olivia, who I swore to ignore for the rest of my natural life because we had what I like to call a too fucking vulnerable moment. I told her things about me almost no one knows.
Things I don’t want anyone to know.
And though I have a reasonable explanation for why I shouldn’t call . . . I have to call her because she’s the only person I can trust with Sarah outside my family.
Or Riley.
But Riley just rage-quit accusing my princess of terrible things. She wouldn’t give anyone hives. I scroll through my contacts, and hover over her name.
I sigh because I already know . . . I’m fucked.
The second she answers, I hear the suspicion in her voice.
“What do you want?”
I grin, leaning back against my pillows. “Liv, that’s not how you greet your favorite neighbor.”
“You’re not my favorite anything,” she says dryly. “Why are you calling me?”
“I have a proposition.”
“Absolutely not.”
“You didn’t even let me?—”
“No.”
I chuckle. “You don’t even know what I’m asking.”
“Does it involve you somehow making my life more complicated?”
There’s a beat of silence. Then, “Lucian.”
I sigh. “Sarah needs a puppysitter. The person I left her with just quit, and I have one hour to find someone. I don’t even know if she stayed to wait for anyone to come and take my girl.”
Silence.
