Page 276 of Forbidden Billionaires: Vol. 6
“When? Please, Brooklyn.”
I put my phone down. I’d do it tomorrow. And I’d text her right after. After all, I didn’t have a choice now. Mason had given me an ultimatum. I needed to talk to Matt before the weekend was over.
But today? I was going to wear a plain blue shirt without the Empire High logo and have fun with my son. “Jacob!” I called. “Are you ready to go?”
He ran into the room. “Sí.”
I smiled at him. We were both wearing jeans and blue shirts. I always thought he looked like a mini-Miller. But today I sawmyself in him. Minus the hat. He was still wearing Tanner’s hat. And it was officially the cutest thing ever.
“And you’re going to keep your clothes on during the game?” I asked.
“Sí,” he said and tipped his hat at me, like he’d seen Tanner do the other day.
I laughed and booped him on the nose. “Are you excited for the game?”
“Yessie, Mommy! Can we go now? It’s football day!”
“Tanner should be here any minute. Race you to the door?”
He took off running before I even finished my sentence. That little cheater. He squealed when I lifted him up before he could reach the door. I turned backwards and held him out in front of me so I’d reach the door first.
“Nooooooo,” Jacob said.
He was a cheater and he used his adorableness against me. I turned at the last second so that he could tag the door.
He smiled up at me. “I win. Now I get to go to the zoo tomorrow.”
“Jacob, we just went to the zoo yesterday.” I set him down.
“Then we can play with Scarlett?”
I’d get through today. I’d get through tomorrow. And then I’d start the rest of my life here. It probably would have been easierto just avoid all the untouchables. But…I didn’t really want to do that. James, Rob, and Mason had been nothing but wonderful. And Jacob was allowed to be friends with whoever he wanted. Right now Scarlett was his only friend. Well, maybe Tanner too. Jacob had definitely taken a liking to him.
“I’ll give her mom a call and see when they’re free again, okay?”
Jacob nodded. “Abuelo’s here!”
Oh, God, what?I looked out the narrow window by the front door. But it wasn’t my father walking up to the house. It was just Tanner. Was Jacob referring to Tanner as justAbuelonow that he’d met his real grandfather and disapproved of him?
Jacob opened the door.
“Hey, little man,” said Tanner. “Nice hat.”
Jacob tipped the hat at him and Tanner’s smile grew.
“I see you don’t have any old shirts lying around either,” I said.
“What?” Tanner asked.
“From Empire High.”
“Oh.” He looked down at the button down he was wearing. “Yeah. Even if I did none of them would have lasted that long anyway.”
What the hell was he doing to his shirts? Washing them constantly on hot instead of cold or something? Or maybe he justdry cleaned everything. Even t-shirts. For some reason I couldn’t imagine Tanner doing laundry.
“Ready for the best day of your life?” Tanner asked.
The best day of Jacob’s life?I knew Jacob was excited about seeing a live game, but that was stretching it a little. But when I looked up, Tanner was staring at me instead of at Jacob.
