Blank Canvas (Irons and Works, #2)

by E.M. Lindsey

“You sign up for a kid, you sign up for all the shit that comes with it. None of this, I don’t expect my kid to be this way bullshit.”

They didn’t want to see him function at home better than people with two working legs as he managed dinner, bath time, and an unruly toddler. They didn’t care that he could manage a three-year-old melt down over no ice pops after dinner because she hadn’t eaten her greens.

“Don’t say yes, and don’t say no,” Niko pressed. “Just say that you’ll make me your last-ditch effort if everything else fails. Because I don’t care if you never pay me back, okay? I don’t care if you take the money and we spend the rest of our lives hating each other. You’re a good father—you’re her father—and getting to keep her is reason enough.”

Niko you’re so sweet