Page 90 of Deal with the Devil

“See!” I give a little jump. “He already likes cats.”

“Good luck, man.” Uncle Miguel laughs at Kane’s quickly losing battle.

But Kane isn’t deterred as he comes close, hands finding my hips as he says, “He also likes kids, by the sounds of it.”

After I peel my jaw up off the floor, I mutter, “It’s a good thing Cash and Wren are having twins.”

Kane tips his head to the side. “And what about us?”

My breath catches and I blush at the fact this intimate moment is being witnessed by Tav and Uncle Miguel. “What about us?”

“When are we giving the pup a baby?”

“We’re giving him a baby?” I can feel my brows climbing on my forehead even as my smile spreads on my face.

“He needs someone to protect. And they’re great family dogs.”

“He’s got a point,” Tav says. Uncle Miguel gives him an elbow to the side, but Tav doesn’t even gruntas he watches me with Kane. This is payback, I realize, for telling him I was going to try and set him up.

I don’t bother retaliating. I’m too overcome by thoughts of sharing a baby with Kane that I say simply, “Okay.”

A slow smile begins to spread on Kane’s face. It’s filled with the most beautiful kind of hope. “Okay?”

I nod, feeling all kinds of feelings. Shy, hopeful, and so in love I could burst. “Okay.”

He points to the front door without looking at Tav or Uncle Miguel. “Out. Out now.”

Playfully hitting my husband’s chest, I shake my head and set the pup on the floor. “We’re not kicking them out so you can try and knock me up.”

“No trying, Sunshine. It’ll be done.”

I’ve already started dishing up the soup. “After we eat.”

Kane grumbles something along the lines of me being a tyrant, but I’m smiling like a crazy person when I finally join my family at the dinner table to eat home cooked soup with my pup nibbling on a chew toy in his new bed.

For the first time in a long time, absolutely everything in my life—including the newly replenished stash of chocolate covered Santa marshmallows in my candy cupboard—is right.

Who knew it all started by making a deal with a devil?

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