Dakota beamed as Wade threw his arms aroundboth of us. “That’s wonderful. But now I have to piss.”
I gave up trying not to laugh and wrappedan arm around Wade. Nodding, I pointed toward the door. “We’ll wait for you inthe bedroom, but you have to promise to be careful.”
Nodding seriously, Dakota patted my chest.“You won’t have to save me twice. I’ll remember it’s dangerous this time.”
Only he could say that about the toiletwith total seriousness.
Refusing to give in and laugh again, Isteered Wade toward the bedroom. He was back to looking sad again. “I knew thefloor was dangerous, but I didn’t think about the toilet. Do you think I needsome of those child locks to keep him safe?”
The locks that kept toddlers from shovingstuff in the toilet?
If they hadn’t been able to find Dakota, Ihad serious doubts about their ability to open one of those while drunk asskunks. “We’ll talk about that tomorrow. He’s safe for now.”
Wade nodded but curled into me like I washis brother. “He disappeared and you were the only one who took it seriously.It's no wonder he loves you.”
He did?
“I’ll always come and rescue him.” HuggingWade, I didn’t hear the door to the bathroom open until Dakota was stumblingout.
He tumbled into our arms and sighed. “Thatwas difficult. Wade, did you know your toilet moves too?”
That had Wade back into overprotectiveparent mode. He looked up at me. “See, I have to keep him safe.”
I could already picture it now…a franticphone call from Dakota next week demanding I come over and save him because hehad to pee and someone had locked him out of the toilet.
These guys were the funniest people I’dever met.
“No worrying, Wade.” I let my voice deepenslightly and let my Dom side out just enough to hopefully calm him. “I willmake sure he’s safe so you don’t have to worry.”
Wade relaxed, starting to smile as thetension in him faded, but Dakota just stuck his head between us, looking backand forth. “Do that again. I need to put it in a book.”
Fuck.
Choking back laughter, I shook my head.“Not now. We’ll talk about it tomorrow.”
When he was sober and I could drive himnuts.
“Let’s go show everyone you’re safe.” Icould still hear words like “magic” and “disappear” coming from the livingroom, so I thought it was a good way to calm things down.
They both nodded like good subs which hadme smiling again. They were so unsteady I ended up walking behind them with onehand on each of them to keep them upright. As we made it out to the livingroom, I could hear an audible sigh of relief from everyone.
Austin glared at Silas. “You’re the bestDom here. You should have made Dakota reappear. Not him.”
Even Silas didn’t know what to say to thatodd collection of sentences. “You told me he was gone.”
Snickering, I made a bow. “I fixed thedisastrous magic that made Dakota disappear.”
Silas glared at me as Austin nodded. “See,I told you so.”
Silas looked like he was trying to find away to hide my body, so I decided a distraction was in order. “Okay, now thatDakota is safe, I think it’s time for everyone to go to bed.”
I could see them all start to crash now thatthey knew Dakota was safe. They might have been drunk, but they were stillworried about him. It was so cute I knew Dakota had to put it in a book at somepoint. “Now, how are you getting home?”
“I’m taking Austin.” Silas sighed andglanced at Russ. “You’ve got Jonah and Shane has Tanner and Bradley.”
That left me and Dakota. Perfect. “Sounds great.I’ll make sure Wade is good before we leave.”
He still seemed a bit emotional to leave onhis own. If he’d been sober, I wouldn’t have worried but drunk was anotherstory. Shane just chuckled as he started wrangling Tanner and Bradley towardthe door. Tanner was fine, but Bradley kept arguing that Simon shouldn’t beable to ditch him.
