Beau leans back and looks at me, affronted, like I’ve horribly offended him. “Oh, I see what’s happening here.”
“Good,” I say, grateful that he’s finally come into some self-awareness. It is incredibly inappropriate to take a baby into a bar to meet a random hook-up date.
“You’re jealous,” he says.
No! He missed the mark!
“That is absolutely not true,” I say too quickly.
Beau narrows his eyes at me as he considers me with suspicion. I’m afraid what he’ll find if he stares too long, so I fling it all right back at him.
“I’m pissed you want to take a little baby into a bar to meet some random woman!”
“Like I have some other choice!” Beau says back, matching my tone. “Do you have any idea how rare this opportunity is? I can’t pass this by! But I’m also not going to shirk on my duties t
