"Yes, you told me while we were having that particular discussion. It wasn't a discussion we had months before and I suddenly forgot. It was that same discussion, Jenna," he said.
"Jenna, I don't like her better. I joked with her, something that I do once in a while. It has nothing to do with liking her better." If it wasn't one child, it was the other. They needed better walls so he could bang his head against them.
He gripped Jenna's shoulders. "You're looking for things that aren't there, baby. I treat you differently, yes, but that's because you are three very different people. If I tell you to start SEAL training after a week, you take me at face value. I tell her the same thing, she rolls her eyes, hugs me and calls me silly, and then she gives me all the medical reasons she can't. Neither of you is doing it, because I would never put you at risk, because that type of training is my call."