“Totally appropriate conversations happening in here among the girls,” Ace says as he pulls down rocks glasses from one of the cabinets. Hadley doesn’t miss a beat. “You’re going to have to do a little more than roll your eyes and grind those teeth, if you want to call me your girl, Daddy.” Laney and I look at each other, eyes wide. I keep my facial expression neutral because, as much as I want to laugh, Ace looks unamused, and Hadley looks like she’s ready to word spar. “I said THE girls, Hadley,” he says, walking over to the counter to bring the fruit salad that Laney just finished to the
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