We’re Doing This Now Part I
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Gulliver couldn’t take his eyes off her. He admitted to himself he was torn between his wife and his child. There was something about the way January had grown into a very overprotective mama bear that was making his trousers far too tight. However, he also admitted from the moment Kaylee opened her mouth and her effervescent spirit erupted into the space, he was right on the same wavelength as his wife.
This child was the one who was going to blow up the world, and he knew without a shadow of a doubt, he’d slit throats, pad pockets, and pay bail for anything and everything she did. He was immediately smitten. He felt the indelible impression on his life from the moment she stepped off the bus with her hand pushing her wayward hair off her forehead and the skip in her step. She was breathtakingly beautiful just as his nephew was, but her personality shone through those baby blue eyes like laser beams. She was vivacious and extraordinary.
“You’re funny Gulliver!” Kaylee was giggling because of the way he was seated on his backside on the floor.
His heart clenched at her calling him by his name, but he knew there would be tons of time for her to understand who he was
and to call him by anything other than his name.
“Actually, Kaylee, come sit with me.”
He watched as January patted the sofa beside him and he caught her sideways glance in his direction, and his heart qame to a screeching halt. She was doing it now? They hadn’t2:56 discussed particulars, but he’d not presumed she would do it so
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“Am I in trouble?” Kaylee pushed her bottom lip out. “I know the teacher was annoyed Mom, but I was only singing Good Luck Babe. I was just wishing everyone luck because I know I didn’t get all the math questions right so maybe someone else needed some luck.”
“We will talk about your disruption of the class later,” January gave a smile that was tentative at best. “But you’re not in trouble. This is good news.”
“Are we rich? Did we win the lottery? Is that why all the fancy cars are out there?”
“No, we did not win the lottery.”
“We are rich,” Gulliver couldn’t help but taunt a bit. He knew he was pushing January’s buttons but there was something about the way she responded, even if she was pissed off at him which made him unable to stop his needling.
“He is rich,” January corrected. “Gulliver is wealthy, Kaylee but that doesn’t mean you get to ask him for tons of stuff.”
He almost laughed as the child visibly deflated. He nearly wondered aloud what she would ask for but caught himself knowing that he was already treading thin ice with his wife. However, in the moment he was waiting with bated breath to see how it was January was going to approach the news he was the child’s father.
“Do you remember when we went to the rehabilitation center with Henry?” January asked the child who nodded vigorously.
hair was bouncing all over the place as she bobbed ner head
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behind Kaylee’s car. “Do you remember how the veterinarian mentioned a few times how you look very much like his friend’s child?”
“Yeah. It was funny because you were in a bad mood. I think he wanted to kiss you.”
January blinked at the comment. “What?”
“Dr. Ford. He was staring at you a lot and I think he was trying to be flirty like when Papa is trying to get kisses from Nana. Dr. Ford kept looking at you. I think it’s why he kept saying I look like his friend’s kid.”
“What do you mean?” Gulliver asked with a growl. He looked at January, “did he hit on you?”
“Easy there, tiger,” January laughed in his face.
“I’ll kill him.”
“He didn’t know it was me, Gulliver.” January rolled her eyes at
him.
He pulled his phone out and sent Ford a text.
“Would you behave?” January hissed at him.
“He should have asked your name and then he should have called me into the room –‘
“Gulliver, take a breath,” January snorted. “He did ask my 3/5
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“He should have,”
“Can we get back on topic?”
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“Sure.” He pocketed his phone. “My message is sent anyway. I hope he cowers.”
“Good grief. There is so much to unpack in that statement, but this is not the time.” January turned her attention back to the child sitting next to her.
“What’s mine is mine. He should know better.” He watched her nostrils flare with indignation and fought his smirk. She thought he couldn’t see the way she was already attuned to him. They were two halves of the same soul. She just needed to accept his apology, one she was correct in pointing out he had not given her yet, and they would get back to being the perfect couple he knew they were meant to be.
He saw the nervous tremor in her fingers as she took Kaylee’s hand in hers and squeezed them. He wanted to wrap them around both and promise to never let anyone, including him, hurt them again but if anything from the last while was clear, it was that she was not ready for him to touch her.
January cleared her throat, “so the doctor at the clinic, is friends with Gulliver.”
Kaylee turned and looked at him with wide eyes, “do you have a kid who looks like me?”
“Yes I do.”
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“Gulliver!” January snapped at him. “Not helping.”
“Well, it’s true. My daughter looks identical to her.”
“You’re being an ass.”
“I’m being me. You used to love
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“Don’t!” she snapped at him furiously and shot a meaningful glance in Kaylee’s direction.
“Well, he’s not wrong,” her father commented as he entered the kitchen with a glass of milk and cookies on a tray.
As January turned red with anger he held his hand up. “January, get on with it, love. You’re stressing yourself out over something which I am sure is going to be good news to the child. Please.”
He could see her middle finger itching to extend in his direction and he winked at Kaylee.
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