“I’m going to ask Dani to marry me tonight,” I say.

His eyes twitch. “No, you’re not.”

“Sure, I’m. After the premiere.”

“And I’m saying no.”

“I didn’t come right here for permission, Bennett. I got here right here to inform you, in individual, so that you didn’t hear about it from another person.”

“How sort of you.” He shifts within the chair and it squeaks beneath him. “Is that each one?”

I scoff, holding my anger inside. “What the hell is your drawback with me?”

“The place would you want me to begin, Fox?” he asks, smirking.

“It’s not my fault you married my mom,” I say. “We have been youngsters, not kids. We didn’t develop up collectively. Our relationship isn’t as huge of a taboo as you suppose it’s.”

“You suppose that’s it?”

“What else is there?”

“Whereas I don’t precisely like the thought of my stepson diddling my daughter beneath my very own roof, that has little to do with my dislike of you. You’re a fucking punk, Fox. A silly jock who by no means would have amounted to something if I didn’t kick you out of my home. Did it ever happen to you that perhaps I don’t approve of your relationship — not as a result of I married your mom — however since you’re simply not ok for her?”

I flex my jaw. “You don’t have any concept what I went by way of to get again to her.”

“And I don’t care.” He rubs the stubble on his face and laughs. “None of it should make up for the truth that you shot her three months in the past. Or am I the one one who remembers that half?”

“I knew what I used to be doing.”

“Oddly sufficient, the truth that you know the way to shoot my daughter by way of the chest with out killing her isn’t truly an enormous consolation to me.” He leans ahead over his desk. “No matter you went by way of during the last 5 years doesn’t matter. What you introduced residence with you does and, actually, you scare the hell outta me. I can’t cease you from doing no matter you’re going to do, and I can’t management her anymore both, however know this: something that occurs to her to any extent further is on you.”

“I do know that.”

“Then, we’re executed right here.” He sits again and shakes his head. “Congratulations in your engagement,” he says with no feeling in any respect.

I resist the urge to argue with him some extra. It received’t change his thoughts and that snark in his tone tells me every part I have to know.

I stroll out of the research, feeling even worse than after I walked in, however I did what I got here right here to do.

“Fox?”

My mom stands on the high of the steps.

I smile. “Hey, Mother.”

“I assumed I heard your voice.” She picks up her tempo to fulfill me on the backside. I lengthen my arms out to her and he or she offers me a hug. “Is every part okay with you?”

“Yeah,” I reply. “I’m superb.”

“And Dani?” She releases me and takes a fast step again. “How is she?”

“She’s…” I look on the closed workplace door. “She’s nice.”

“I miss having her round, not gonna lie,” she says.

“Effectively, you’re at all times welcome at our place. that.”

She nods slowly. “So, you two are nonetheless…?”

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