“Now listen, baby,” Daniel growls, pitching his voice a register lower – and I’m laughing already, because honestly it does sound so much like Kent that I can barely believe it. “I’m very disappointed in you – you need to be tougher –“
Jerome bursts into laughter too and I smack Daniel on the shoulder, though I can’t help my glee. “Kent would so not say that! Not to a baby!”
“I guarantee that’s what he said to me!” Daniel protests, laughing too. “Seriously, that’s dead on! Welcome to my childhood!”
“Oh, you’re exaggerating,” I murmur, rubbing a hand along my belly. “Don’t listen to your uncle, baby – he’s being mean.”
“Okay okay,” Daniel says, still laughing a little. “Let me try again.” He clears his throat and takes a deep breath, and then starts speaking in his Kent voice again, wh
