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"Uan, and licked ain as I tried to come up with an excuse I have work tomorrow True I have to do laundry Not true I have to clean Unfortunately true, but I won’t get to it tonight regardless I have to watch row I don’t have any plants I needwith o! I straightened in ht Just last week I hadn’t been ready for the three of us to hang out, but I also hadn’t kno serious Coen was about this relationship--­and he was right: Parker already adored hi in less than a week, the only time I’d be alone without Parker would be the Fridays my as closedI knew this needed to happen soon, or eventually I would start thinking of reasons for us not to be together because of the time apart

"We can wai--­"

"What’d you have in mind?"

There was a heavy silence before Coen added softly, "Don’t do this if you’re not ready"

"You already know hi du your son"

I s Parker to eat My dad couldn’t even do that "I’ him fro and kinda, maybe, sorta like too"

"Kinda, maybe, sorta," he said, his voice monotone

"Yeah," I teased "So what did you want to do tonight?"

"We can do easy We can just grab dinner Or we can--­"

"Easy sounds good"

"All right, easy it is Can I pick you both up in an hour?"

I bit down on the inside of my cheek and shifted uncomfortably in my seat "Can we meet you wherever you want to eat? Unless you want me to pick you up? Otherwise I have to move the booster seat to your car and it’ll just be weird"

"Booster seat?"

"Yepproble ain one of those"

I laughed and stepped out of my car "I can’t remember it either, but it’s the la"

"Seriously?"

"Yeah, Steele, seriously"

He paused before saying, "Don’t call me that It’s weird"