no mood for even a taste of what Ever had gotten yesterday. I liked my asshole the way it was.
“Indeed, I feel like it, too.” I lowered into the chair by his bed with a groan. I’d given up on sleep around the crack of dawn and, for some reason, decided to work out. Every single one of my muscles ached from disuse.
“So I heard about the kid,” he said after neither of us had spoken for a while. “Congratulations, asshole.”
I shook my head in disbelief. Having a kid at nineteen was not exactly something I aspired to, but now that he was here, I had a hard time feeling any regret. It was a weird fucking space to be in, that’s for sure. “Yeah, thanks, man.” I couldn’t help the prideful grin that spread my lips a moment later. My kid was adorable as fuck even though he scared the shit out of me. I couldn’t stop thinking about him and wondered what he was doing at this very moment.
He’s a newborn, jackass. He’s probably shitting himself or sleeping.
“Just between you and me,” Wren said after verifying that we were still alone, “was it really an accident?”
“Seriously? Jamie implied the same thing. The fucking condom broke, bro. Are you mental?” Wren winked before shrugging, and I had a hard time holding back my devious grin when he winced from the movement. “He wasn’t planned,” I insisted.
“Maybe not by Tyra,” he teased.
I found myself smirking, even as I flipped him off. “Fuck you, man.”
“You’re smart to plead the fifth. I suggest you take it to your grave, or Tyra will dig you an early one.”
“Read my lips,” I told him slowly. “I did not trap Tyra.”
A throat clearing had both of our gazes flying toward the open door where Lou stood with pip-squeak, who was clutching River to her chest.
My brows immediately pulled down. “What the hell do you think you’re doing?” Tyra’s cold stare shriveled my balls, but she didn’t have to know that. Risking them, I shot up from the chair and stalked across the room. “Should he be out of the NICU?”
“I checked with his doctor. He said it was fine as long as he doesn’t leave the hospital.”
Everything she said had gone in one ear and out the other. “Take him back upstairs.”
Ignoring my order, she stepped around me and entered the room. “I thought River might want to meet his uncle,” she cooed as she approached Wren’s bed. He was already sitting up, a gentle look in his eyes as he accepted the baby from pip. Meanwhile, my blood was boiling as my heart raced. I wasn’t sure which one would kill me first. I kept checking for some threat or some sign that River was in distress. Tyra, however, seemed completely relaxed as she watched Wren bond with my son.
“I need to talk to you in private,” I practically hissed in Tyra’s ear. Over her head, my gaze met Lou’s. She mouthed something, and against my will, I read her lips.
I will cut you.
Ignoring her meddling ass, I gripped Tyra’s elbow and led her out the room.
“Perhaps instead of fighting about my dick last night, we should have discussed the fact that you didn’t make River by yourself,” I fussed as soon as we were alone. “You should have called me before you took him out of NICU. We need to make these decisions together.”
“I’ve been calling and sending messages for weeks, and you haven’t answered a single one. Why would I bother now?”
“I didn’t have my fucking phone,” I pushed through gritted teeth. “My father did.” I stood perfectly still, ignoring the fact that my dick jumped when she shoved her hand in the pocket of my jeans and pulled out my old phone before holding it up. I couldn’t deny that it was damning evidence, making me look like a goddamn liar. “He just gave it back yesterday,” I tried to explain. It sounded lame as hell.
“How convenient.” Her lips pressed together, and I was one more smart comment away from kissing the anger from them. She never could resist melting for me.
“Look.” I huffed before snatching my phone back. It had been twenty-four hours, and I was already pulling my hair over the back and forth. “I screwed your sister, and you didn’t tell me you were pregnant. Let’s just call it even and move on.”
Her gaze narrowed. “Because it’s that easy for you.”
“Because we have a son to think about,”