Page 81 of Havoc's Fox
He looked at her for a minute. “You’re lucky you’re cute, you know that?”
She grinned at her Daddy.
“I’ll find out if she’s busy and maybe you can go see her in a day or two. Alright?”
“Alright,” she said, satisfied for now.
Havoc went outside and leaned against one of the fence posts he’d already cemented into the ground. He was putting up what appeared to be a wooden fence with two boards running horizontally with about a foot between them. So that he could keep not only Harley’s pup, but Harley herself inside the fence, he was running field fence all along the inside. When he was done building it, he planned to stain it to bring out the natural color of the wood. He reached for his phone, knowing that Analise wouldn’t answer, and after trying twice and having his call sent to voice mail twice, he gave up and started to put his phone in his pocket and get back to work, but instead, he dialed Emmalyn’s number.
“What?” she asked, picking up on the first ring.
“I have a favor to ask,” he said.
“No! No favor for you, call back one year!” she said, imitating a skit on a television show they’d all enjoyed when they were younger.
“Fine, how about Harley wants a favor?”
“Hmm, little-Hellen-like child is much loved. What does she want?”
“Why do you keep calling her little-Hellen-like child when she looks just like me? And she is mine, not Hellen’s,” Havoc asked.
“Because Hellen is gorgeous, and she looks just like Hellen, so, she is forever little-Hellen-like child.”
“Hellen is my twin, she looks like me, too.”
“Yes, but I like Hellen better, so she will remain little-Hellen-like child. What does she want?”
“Analise.”
“Huh?” Emmalyn asked.
“She’s been driving me crazy, saying Analise promised to take her for a walk. I tried to call but Analise sent my calls to voice mail. So, basically I’m trying to give her her space, but I’m also trying to see if Harley can come over for a little while and take a short walk with Analise. I know it’s probably asking too much, and if she doesn’t want to, I’ll come up with some excuse, but I promised Harley I’d ask, so, this is me asking because that’s what a daddy does for his kid.”
“Hang on…” Emmalyn said.
Then he heard her yelling, presumably into the next room so Analise could hear her. “It’s Havoc, he says Harley wants to come go for a walk. Is that okay?”
He waited few more seconds and Emmalyn was back on the line.
“’Lise said that she’d be happy to take a walk with her. She said she’ll come over later and pick her up. Any particular time?”
“Nope. I’m building a fence. We’re at the new place.”
“I know that.”
“Oh, so you keeping tabs?”
“No, I am just that wise. She’ll be there later.”
“Thanks, Em. And please tell Analise how much I appreciate it, too. She really loves you both.”
“And we love her. Goodbye, asshole.”
“Bye, Em.”
He chuckled, shaking his head at Emmalyn’s insistence of keeping up the pretense that she was at odds with him. If that made her feel better, so be it. Instead of going inside to tell Harley, he just got back to work. She’d be surprised when Analise showed up, and if Analise changed her mind, Harley wouldn’t be disappointed because she wouldn’t have known to expect her.
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