Nell’s POV
“They kissed. I mean, that’s gotta be what happened. Right?”
Milo looks way too amused by this situation. Why isn’t he as horrified as I am? Even if we were normal parents, I’d be concerned about my sixteen-year-old daughter being in her first relationship—assuming that’s what’s going on here. But us? The parents of a girl who starts fires when she becomes emotional?
“Oh, they kissed, all right,” Milo says cheerfully. “Good for Jack, huh?”
I glare at him. “You’re really not worried? She burned his lips, Mi. We don’t even know that she didn’t start a larger fire.”
He shrugs. “She would have told us. And I don’t think she burned him that bad.”
I continue glaring.
He sighs, taking me into his arms and rubbing my back as if I’m a colicking baby. “This isn’t like the rest o
