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Authors: Liz Crowe

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“Okay. Promise?”

“Promise.” He spotted Diana in the doorway between the
living room and kitchen. “I’ll do anything for you, baby.” He spoke to LeeAnn
but kept his gaze on Diana.

“I know.” The girl placed her small palm on his rough cheek.
“I’m a daddy’s girl.”

He grinned. “There are worse things,” he claimed, tugging
her close.

“Much worse,” Diana said, sitting beside them and pressing
her lips to his over the girl’s head.

“Eww, stop it,” LeeAnn insisted, squirming away and hitting
the floor running, headed to her room.

“I’m going over to Helen’s,” Jace called from somewhere near
the door. “Bye, Daddy. Merry Christmas, Mama. Love you both!”

“You
have
a curfew.” Diana started to get to her
feet.

“Be smart, son.” Dom pulled her back down and into his arms,
burying his nose in her neck.

“I don’t like that girl,” Diana insisted before she kissed
him.

“You don’t like any girls,” Dom muttered around her lips.

“Just wait until your little princess gets picked up for
her
first date.” She shoved him away and plopped her feet onto his lap. “Hey, maybe
she’ll date somebody just like her daddy.” She bit her lip at his instant
reaction to that concept.

“That is so not funny,” he said, meaning it. “LeeAnn
Tolliver Love will not date, ever, especially not anyone like me.”

Diana burst out laughing and crawled onto his lap. “Oh,
Dominic, I love you.”

“I love you, too. But, um, what does that have to do with
how I’m locking that girl in her room until she’s thirty?” Dom experienced his
first father-of-a-girl honest panic. He didn’t like it, but figured it for
something he’d best get used to.

“You’re so adorable when you’re being unrealistic.” His wife
opened her robe and put her bare breasts on his eye level. Dom gulped and
cupped them, then let go, his mind spinning in all sorts of horrible
directions.

“Please tell me she won’t date someone like me, Diana.
Please? Jesus help me.”

“Sweetheart, you have no idea.” She distracted him with her
lips and tongue.

Later, they lay curled up in bed together, dog snoring
gently nearby. Dom smiled up at the ceiling, thanking the Lord for his luck. He
kissed Diana’s hair. “We aren’t letting her date, ever, right?”

“Lordy, just give it a rest, Sean. Go to sleep. I love you.”

“Okay, I love you too.” He took a long breath. “No dating
for LeeAnn though.”

“Oh, please,” his wife said just before her breathing evened
out in sleep.

The End

About The Author

Amazon best-selling author, beer blogger, brewery marketing
expert, mom of three, and soccer fan, Liz Crowe is a Kentucky native and
graduate of the University of Louisville currently living in Ann Arbor. She has
decades of experience in sales and fund raising, plus an eight-year stint as a
three-continent, ex-pat trailing spouse.

Her early forays into the publishing world led to a
groundbreaking fiction subgenre, “Romance for Real Life,” which has gained
thousands of fans and followers interested less in the “HEA” and more in the
“WHA” (“What Happens After?”). More recently she is garnering even more fans
across genres with her latest novels, which are more character-driven fiction,
while remaining very much “real life.”

With stories set in the not-so-common worlds of breweries,
on the soccer pitch, in successful real estate offices and at times in exotic
locales like Istanbul, Turkey, her books are unique and told with a fresh
voice. The Liz Crowe backlist has something for any reader seeking complex
storylines with humor and complete casts of characters that will delight,
frustrate and linger in the imagination long after the book is finished.

Don’t ever ask her for anything “like a Budweiser” or risk
bodily injury.

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