For a little Father's Day fun, here's a short snippet of Nathan with Gia in All of You (Danny
and Kat's story)...because you know I can never get enough of him: :)
Nathan picked
Gia up off the changing table and planted a big kiss on her chubby cheek. “What’s
wrong, my little angel?” he cooed, laughing when Gia stopped crying and stared
at him. “There you go, my little princess.” Nathan kissed both cheeks and the
tip of her nose, which made Gia giggle. “That’s better, isn’t it? Daddy always
makes it all better.” He turned the Gia to face Kat. “Hi, Zia Kitty-Kat.”
Kat grinned and
shifted weight to her stronger right leg. She extended her arms. “Piccolo
farfalla mia! Come see your zia…” Nathan handed her Gia and Kat held her as
tightly as she could, swinging back and forth. She gave Gia a squeeze. “Oh, I
love this kid.” Kat shot Nathan a look. “And that’s the only reason I’m not
gonna rip your face off for the ‘Kitty-Kat’ crap.”
Nathan grinned
and threw a burp cloth over his shoulder. He changed out the Diaper Genie bag
and kissed Gia’s head before walking out of the room.
Even after all
these months, it was still so weird to see him like this: relaxed and happy.
Nathan was a serious guy. To put it mildly. But this baby had turned a huge
mountain of a hard-nosed cop into a puddle of mush.
“Isn’t he so
adorable you could eat him with a spoon?” Stella whispered, watching Nathan
walk away as she came in. “Every time I see him with her I wanna jump him.” She
grinned. “And most of the time, I do.”
“Ew, Stell.
Ugh.” Kat sat in the rocker and settled Gia into her lap. “Enough with the TMI,
okay? You’re grossing me out.”
Stella laughed.
“Sorry. But the man is too much for me to handle with all of the baby talk and
changing diapers and kissing her every five seconds.” She sighed. “Those broad
shoulders and huge biceps were hard enough to take before, but now seeing Gia
in his arms?” Stella shivered. “I can’t get enough of him.”
Kat rolled her
eyes and covered Gia’s ear with her hands. “You’re gonna scar this kid, you
know that, don’t you? And me. Save the dirty talk for Fi and Gigi. Talk about
eating things up with spoons.”
“That wasn’t
dirty talk,” Stella said, grinning. “But if you really wanna hear some stuff-”
“God, no,
Stell!” Kat positioned Gia so they were face-to-face. “Let’s change the
subject, eh, Gia? From your dirty Mama to what you and Zia Kat are gonna do
today.”
A fun little
sneak-peek, no? :)
Gina