Page 94 of Magic and Mayhem

I wasn’t sure that would help, but Daddy was magic and I shouldn’t have questioned him because Boyd’s grumpies deflated like a balloon. “Sorry. I was just…I was just frustrated about something else and took it out on you.”

Aww, now I couldn’t be mad at him.

“It’s okay.” I wanted to pretend not to know what he was upset about but playing dumb wasn’t nice once he realized he’d been a pain in the butt. “He’ll come.”

Boyd tried to hide his surprise, but he laughed and shook his head. “I’m so subtle.”

As a ton of bricks as Daddy would say.

“You’re about as subtle as the gold Mr. Emry left in the parking lot of the police station.” Of course, everyone pretended not to know who’d left it, but we all knew who’d been naughty.

Especially after he’d kept the truck.

Daddy said he thought Mr. Emry hadn’t realized there’d been gold in the truck, but I thought that didn’t matter and he should’ve planned better.

What if he’d stolen an ambulance and hadn’t noticed there were people in it?

Nope, he needed a time-out at the very least.

Boyd laughed, finally sounding happy and not like he was in pain. “Yeah, he must’ve really wanted that armored truck badly.”

“Common sense is very important.” And Daddy was right; it was lacking in our area. “He needs to make better decisions.”

And learn to appreciate Matchbox cars better.

“You’re not wrong.” Boyd’s smile faded a bit, but he didn’t get grumpy again as he looked around the VFW Hall. “Let’s go see if Lorne needs help. He said he was going to bring beads over for us to make necklaces and it looks like he has a thousand little boxes over there.”

Oh, he was going to make a mess if he wasn’t careful.

“We need a Daddy to tell him no more often. I don’t remember him having that many boxes last time we made jewelry.” I probably shouldn’t have told on Lorne but Boyd needed something to do to keep him occupied, so it was for a good cause.

Yep, Boyd turned his grumbles into protective Daddy frustration as he marched over to see what Lorne was doing, but I didn’t feel guilty. Lorne needed to stop shopping and Boyd needed to forget the librarian for a few minutes.

Daddy’s arms wrapped around me and he chuckled. “Naughty dragon, shouldn’t you be protecting Lorne?”

“Boyd’s grumpy and it’s Lorne’s turn.” I’d take another one for the team later when I told Boyd that I’d taken Daddy flying again.

That made the cranky dragon nuts.

Still laughing quietly, Daddy kissed my neck. “I think I’m going to have to punish you later. That doesn’t seem very nice.”

Yay.

Spankings.

“But it looks like some new friends have started to arrive, so that conversation will have to wait.” Daddy kissed me again and distracted me so much that it took me too long to realize what he’d said.

“Visitors?” Turning around in his arms as he chuckled, I found them.

We had playdate visitors.

Two of them and we hadn’t even gotten started yet.

“Boyd’s going to be very excited but who’s the other man, Daddy?” He was tall and just as grumpy looking as Boyd but that was where their similarities ended.

This grumpy dragon hadtattoos.

“Don’t drool, cutie. You’re mine. I already moved in and everything.” Daddy huffed when I giggled.

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