“Hey! Anybody up?” Barron called from the front door as he tapped on it, opened it, and walked right in.
Emmalyn looked dispassionately at Barron, then glared at Analise and Havoc. “Texting Maia, huh?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Analise said, carefully choosing a second cream filled donut.
Barron walked over to the table and sat down directly across from Emmalyn. “I love donuts.”
“Don’t eat my donuts,” Emmalyn warned.
“Hey! That’s not nice,” Barron said.
“Uncle Barron can have some donuts,” Harley said from the living room.
“Yeah, Uncle Barron can have some donuts,” Barron repeated, grabbing a donut, an eclair, and a cream puff and putting them on a paper towel in front of himself.
Emmalyn scowled at Barron.
“Want some coffee?” Analise asked.
“I’d love some, ‘Lise.”
“Coming right up,” she said, getting up to get him a mug of hot coffee.
Barron picked up his donut and took a huge bite while pointedly looking Emmalyn in the eye.
Emmalyn stared him down.
“You ready to have that conversation yet?” Barron asked as he chewed.
“Nothing to converse about,” she said flatly.
Analise handed Barron his coffee, then topped off her own and Havoc’s. “You want more chocolate milk?” she asked Emmalyn.
“Yes, please.”
“I’ll get it for you. In the meantime, you could try to be nice.”
“I am always nice,” Emmalyn said. “People just don’t like it when I tell the truth.”
“Saying there’s nothing to talk about is not the truth,” Barron said as he quickly finished off all three of his chosen pastries and donuts.
Harley wandered over and peeked into the donut box.
“What are you looking for, little girl?” Barron asked.
“I don’t want a whole one, but I want some more,” Harley said.
“You want to split one?” Barron asked.
“Can we?”
“We can. Pick whatever you want and we’ll break it in half,” Barron said as Harley climbed up in his lap.
Harley chose a blueberry donut and Barron broke it in half for them as she sat comfortably on his lap enjoying her half.
“What do you have there?” he asked, lifting his chin in the direction of the color and fabric samples.
“If you must know, I’m helping plan their wedding,” Emmalyn said.
