Fighting for Love (Boston Love 2)
“Give her to me. Now.”
Preston narrowed his eyes at me. “You can’t demand my daughter from me, dude.”
“I can and I just did. Give her up. You get her all the time, Preston.”
Giving me a dirty look, he stated, “She’s my daughter. Back the fuck off, Finn.”
“Preston!” Harmony said as she slapped him on the head. “Don’t talk like that in front of Presley.”
Preston rolled his eyes. “She doesn’t understand me.”
“Harmony, tell your greedy husband to give up the baby before I challenge him to a round of Monopoly.”
“Monopoly?” Preston asked with a smile while Harmony gasped.
“No! Not Monopoly!” Harmony cried out.
Rory walked up to the baby and smiled at her while asking, “I don’t get it. What’s wrong with Monopoly?”
Quickly pulling Rory away from us, Harmony stated, “Don’t ever ask them to play that game, challenge them to it, or even hint that you could win at it. You’ll be stuck for hours. In Monopoly, the Wards are a play-until-only-one-person-is-standing kind of family.”
Preston stood and gently placed his daughter into Rory’s hands while my jaw dropped to the floor.
“How…why…We’re blood, dude! You gave her to Rory first?”
Preston shot me a dirty look. “I like her better than I do you.”
I shot him the middle finger and turned my attention to Rory. “Let me have her.”
“Not yet,” she said as she rocked the baby back and forth. Soon Rory softly started to sing to her, and I had to grab onto something to keep my legs from giving out.
“You’re such a beautiful girl. Yes you are. Look at how big you’ve grown. Oh my, look at those blue eyes.”
“Care to share what you’re thinking right this second, Finn?” Harmony whispered.
Dragging my eyes off Rory, I took Harmony in. She looked so much more rested than she had earlier today. “I’m not thinking anything.”
“Uh-huh. So you’ve got that goofy look in your eyes and you’re wobbling on your legs because…?”
I didn’t want to blurt out to Harmony how I wished that this was our child Rory was holding. The idea alone should have had me running for the hills, but strangely, it didn’t. I was even a tad bit jealous of Preston. He had the very thing I found myself longing for.
A family.
“Want to feed her before she goes down, since you guys showed up late?”
I couldn’t help but notice how Harmony looked at Rory. Almost as if she thought it was Rory who’d made us late.
“Flash destroyed the campground. Dad and I had to take everything down while Rory and Mom cleaned up the campsite. Looks like our camping trip is over.”
“Well, that’s a bummer. You guys gonna head back into Boston tonight?” Preston asked while handing me a bottle.
I glanced over to Rory, who nodded. “Probably,” I said.
Preston flashed me a big grin. “Well, you know you can stay here. We have a guest bedroom.”
Laughing, I took Presley from Rory. “You just want to be able to stroll in late tonight, that’s all.”
“Hell yeah, that’s what it is.”