A Family After All. Kathy Altman
of the Justice League. Pals with Superman?” When Gil still looked lost, Noble made a tsk tsk sound. “What’d you read when you were a kid, Cooper? Trixie Belden?”
Seth glanced around the table. Someone had to say it. “Who’s Trixie Belden?”
Noble rolled his eyes. “Heathens.”
Harris’s cards lay abandoned beside him as he twisted his beer bottle in a halting circle. “Your daughter do that a lot?”
“Have bad dreams? Since the divorce, yeah. More often since these two geniuses—” Seth gestured with his beer at Joe and Noble “—found that damned python and couldn’t stop bragging about it.”
“Don’t go blaming me,” Noble protested. “Joe found her. All I did was help pull her out of the wall.”
Gil exaggerated a shudder. “It’s a wonder you two aren’t having nightmares.”
Joe waved a careless hand. “I haven’t woken up screaming in weeks. Anyway, it was Allison who found her.” He tapped a red chip against the table absently. “Parker said something once about Nat having nightmares. She said they read books together about kids conquering their fears and played flashlight tag so Nat wouldn’t be so scared of the dark.”
“Monster spray.” Harris cleared his throat and lifted his beefy shoulders in a self-conscious shrug. “When my daughter was little, we put a bottle of monster spray by her bed. Worked like a charm.”
“Judas Priest.” Joe rubbed a hand over his mouth. “I’m not ready for this.”
“You’ll be fine.” Seth lifted his beer. “To Joe. May he be a better father than he is a poker player.”
“Like that’ll be hard,” muttered Noble, and considered the crumbs on his plate. “Know what goes great with pale ale? Cheesecake.”
While Harris choked on his beer, Joe made a face. “Didn’t you get your fill at the library last night?”
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