Page 51 of Broken Daddy
She frowned at him before groaning. “I don’t like this.”
“What? Being scolded?”
“No. Well, yes. I don’t think anyone likes being scolded, do they? But I was actually talking about you being right.”
Oh, this brat.
Once more he felt his lips twitch. But he put a stop to that. He had nothing to smile about.
I don’t know, baby. I think she’s pretty funny.
Fuck. He tried to ignore that voice. It didn’t feel right that she was speaking to him now.
Not while he was sitting here scolding another woman, admiring her, thinking about putting her over his knee.
Hearing her voice brought him crashing back to reality.
May was his wife. The love of his life. If he believed in things like soul mates, she was it.
And he had no business wanting this girl.
But he fought the urge to push Devi away. To say something nasty that meant she’d never come near him again.
He could do it.
With anyone else, he might have.
But he couldn’t do that to Devi. She didn’t deserve it. Despite her bravado, there was something vulnerable about her. Something fragile that he felt the urge to protect.
And he thought it might break something inside him to hurt her.
Maybe that last piece of humanity he had left.
He’d already been enough of a dick to her. He’d just had to apologize for that. He didn’t need to compound the wrong by adding to it.
“Well, you won’t like being around me then,” he said. “I’m always right.”
She made a scoffing noise. He had no idea why. That was simply the truth.
He was always right.
Sure, sometimes he should watch how he worded things, but he’d never claimed to be diplomatic. However, that didn’t make him wrong.
“Wait . . . you weren’t joking, were you?” she said, gaping at him. “You really think that you’re always right.”
“Don’t think it. Know it.” He crossed his arms over his chest.
“Lord help me. Is that why you have such big muscles? So you can support your giant head?”
Yep, I like her.
He closed down that voice. He knew it wasn’t really May. So that meant it had to be him projecting her voice into his head.
Which also meant that he’d finally lost it and was completely insane.
Good to know.
He was shocked he’d lasted this long.
