All They Wanted (Wanted 5.6)

Josh’s smile faded. “You know I’d have never have hit you with that crutch if your husband hadn’t ducked like a pussy.”

Jeff stood. “Hey, there is no need to bring that fact up!”

I shook my head. “You are both to blame and I know how you’ll repay me.”

Josh swallowed hard. “I don’t like the sound of that.”

With a sweet smile, I sat down next to Josh. “Don’t get your panties into a twist, Hayes. I simply want furniture for the new baby’s room.”

“That’s it?”

I lifted my brow. “I wouldn’t think you’re off the hook so easy. You haven’t heard what I wanted yet.”

“I am going to step in and say I have top priority in the making of baby furniture department,” Heather stated with a chuckle.

“Totally agree with that,” I replied.

Josh let out a fake laugh. “Okay, so I’m supposed to make the twins their furniture and now you want furniture?”

“Yep.”

“You do know I have other jobs I have to do first … ones that pay me to make their furniture.”

I nodded. “Of course, I don’t want you to put anything on the back burner.”

His brows pinched together. “Then how in the hell do you suggest I squeeze in your furniture?”

With a shrug, I replied, “That’s not my problem, but I will say, Jeff here will be helping you.”

“What?” Jeff asked as he glanced between Josh and me. “I can’t make furniture.”

With a wink, I stated, “Sure you can. Josh here just has to show you. Y’all will have to work together as a team.”

Josh practically fell out of his chair. “I’m not teaching him how to make furniture! Have you ever tried to teach Jeff anything? He acts like he knows how to do it and doesn’t even bother to listen.”

“Hello, I’m sitting right here, and how hard could it possibly be to make furniture?”

Josh’s mouth dropped open. “How hard could it be? Are you serious right now? You can’t even mend a fence without bitching!”

I leaned back in my chair and folded my arms. A huge smile spread across my face.

Ellie giggled. “I totally see what you did there.”

Gunner let out a roar of laughter. “Damn woman. Remind me never to get on your wrong side.”

The canoes were all lined up along the shore while Jeff finished up paying.

“I love canoe rides!” Ellie stated with a huge smile.

I nudged her on the arm. “Wonder why?”

Her face lit up. It didn’t seem like it was that long ago Gunner had whisked her away from her mother’s house and took her out on the lake in a canoe. The memory of her telling me about their first kiss made me smile. We sure had all come a long way in a few short years.

“I don’t think I’ll ever forget that day,” Ellie said as her cheeks heated.

Heather smiled. “It was the day Gunner kissed you for the first time, right?”

With a nod, Ellie replied, “Yep, sure was.”