Chapter 84

Roman opened the door before the doorbell could ring and ushered Phillip inside quickly.

“Did you bring it?”

He ignored Phillip’s eye roll as he handed him a bag.

“I said to hide it!” he hissed as he hid the bag in his coat,

“You made me drive all this way for this,” Phillip said.

“It was an emergency,” he said. “And I don’t know why you’re complaining. There’s food here, you were going to find an excuse to come, anyway.”

He walked to the stairs quickly.

“Everyone’s outside. I will be there as soon as I can.”

“Your schemes get you into trouble all the time. I don’t know why you haven’t learned that lesson yet,” Phillip grumbled.

“Mind your own business, Phillip,” he called out as he took the stairs two at a time.

He went back into the bedroom and grinned when he saw the little boy who was still sitting and waiting where he had told him to.

“I’ve got it,” he said.

And the boy answered with a grin so eerily simila