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“Hey,” I greet, and shove my hands in my back pockets that are drenched from the water table so I won’t touch Brody.Levi is barely hanging on by a thread with another man holding his baby, and I don’t want to make it worse.“I was going to call you after I put this little one down for a nap.”
“Let’s leave and we can put her to bed at home,” he urges.
I need answers from Brody, but I don’t want Halo to hear if we get loud or it turns ugly.
“She’s already here.It’s not a big deal.”Halo wiggles in Brody’s arms and he promptly places her back on her feet.She takes off towards Everly and I see she’s holding her favorite doll.Sneaky bitch!
“Sadie, what’s going on here?”Brody asks, and I feel Levi approach now that our daughter is out of hearing range.
“What does it look like?It’s a family reconnecting after being held apart for over two years, dipshit,” Levi bites out.“And her name is Saylor.”
“And whose fault is that?”Brody retorts.
“You, you motherfuck—”
This is going to get ugly if I don’t step in.
“Enough!Not here in front of Halo,” I say, and put up a hand onto both their chests.
“Sadie, let’s get our baby and go home.”
Oh, shit.Wrong thing to say in front of a possessive caveman who just found his family.
Gently as he can, Levi hooks an arm around my waist and physically moves me behind him and steps up to Brody.Both Mitch and Linc are within arm’s reach, as Linc stands behind Brody.
“That’s MY daughter, fucker, just like that’s MY wife.”Levi snares as he bumps Brody in the chest.I know they both work out hard and it’ll be a bloodbath if it comes to blows.
“Stop!Don’t do this,” I yell and squeeze my way in between the two men.“Brody, you and I need to talk.Let’s go back to your house and do it there.”
“You’re not going anywhere with this lying, scheming sack of shit!”Levi fumes and tries to maneuver me again, but I dodge him.
“Levi, you can’t tell me what to do.Now go and put our daughter down for a nap,” I order.
“Everybody shut up!”We hear a voice coming up towards us.I barely look away and see Grandpa and Granddad marching over to us.Halo, Glammy, Everly, Alice and Grandma are all missing, and I hope they’ve gone inside.
“Sorry Grandpa,” we all three mumble as he finally reaches us.
“This is not going to happen here, do you two hear me?”Grandpa lectures us.
“Yes, sir,” they both say.
“Brody, I’ll meet you at the house.Let me check on Halo and then I’ll head out,” I tell him.
He nods, then turns to head back to the truck.Grandpa walks with him as they converse about something.I let out a breath, thankful that they didn’t come to blows, then start to make my way to the house to check on Halo before I leave.
A hand wraps around my wrists, halting me from moving.
“Don’t go over there with him.Please Saylor, you know I’m not a begging man but I am now.”He looks conflicted and I hate that, but this is something I have to do.
“Levi, so much has happened since I came here to Montana.Brody and I have been through a lot, and whether you like it or not, we have history together.He was the one to put the pieces back together when you broke me.I know he’s played a role in all this, along with you, but he deserves to get to explain.”
“So, what, you just go back to him?Where does that leave me?Us?”he asks.
“I don’t know, Levi.Two days ago, I thought I’d never see you again and now I find out that not only have you been looking for me and Halo this entire time, but that we are still married.I need to process all of this.This isn’t going to be fixed overnight, and you can’t ask that of me.”
He takes a deep breath, closes his eyes then reopens them.A look of resolve is there and he nods.
“Okay.I know this is going to take some time.I’ll wait for however long it takes.”
