Oh, my God. My heart was in pieces. “I love you, too, baby girl. So much.” She put her chubby little hands on my face and gave me a sweet kiss on the lips. Soon, sweetheart. Soon you won’t have to say goodbye because you and your gorgeous mom will be living with me. I hope. “You’ll have a good time here with your uncles, right?” I asked soothingly.

Cam spoke up and said, “I’ll let you fix my hair, Carrie. Go get a brush.”

She narrowed her little eyes and said, “Can I put bows in your hair?” Cam rolled his eyes good-naturedly and agreed, and Carrie ran off down the hallway yelling, “Bye, Daddy!” over her shoulder.

Cam shrugged and said, “She’s pretty easy to distract with the right incentive.”

I laughed for the first time since I had been there. “Beau, make sure to send me pictures of Cam when Carrie is done with him.” Cam flipped me off, and I laughed again.

As I walked out the door, I thought that maybe these guys weren’t half bad. I could actually see myself becoming friends with them. Except for that fucker, Bode.

Blaire and I were going to have a talk about him. Soon.

32. Blaire

Blaire

I was seriously like the walking dead today. I didn’t sleep last night. At all. Not even a cat nap in the on-call room. I caught two hours of sleep this morning when I got home, and now I was at football practice. I’d downed a double espresso and eaten a granola bar on the drive over, and that seemed to have perked me up a little. The life of a resident was hectic as shit, but I loved it.

I walked down the hallway and saw my big, hunky man walking toward me with a fierce look on his face. He only looked like that when he was either mad or extremely horny, and I was betting on the latter. Maybe he would drag me into a broom closet and give me a little pick-me-up. I put on my brightest grin as he approached me, but he didn’t smile back.

Axel crowded my body and backed me up, slamming his hands on the wall on either side of my head. “What the fuck is going on between you and Bode,” he growled in my face.

Okaaay, so NOT horny.

“What the hell are you talking about, Ax?”

“Carrie said that y’all told Beau you were having a terrible love affair?” I thought back to the night we were messing around with Beau and immediately understood. But I was too tired to deal with his jealous bullshit today.