Page 156 of All the Forbidden Things

“Is it true he punched you when he found out?” My hand instinctively goes to my jaw, and I scratch my fingers over my beard and laugh.

“Yeah, he punched me. He put me on my arse if you must know, but come on . . . she was twenty-two, I was thirty-eight, a single dad and still married, I’d have ripped his head off if that was my little sister.”

“And yet here you are, six years later, four chil—”

“Five. We have five kids,” Billie jumps in and corrects him.

“Sorry, my apologies. Five children and appear to be very happy. I wonder then, how is Callum responding to the rumours circulating about a potential relationship blossoming between Makenzie Wild and Jake Wright?”

It takes me a minute to process what he’s just said, but Billie’s all over it.

“Wait. What? Kenzie and Jake?”