Jacque looked at Jen and then glanced over at Sally. “She has on her ‘happy wicked’ face.”
Sally nodded. “That’s never good.”
“Well, only if you're on the receiving end of that face,” Jacque reminded her.
“That's true, but she doesn’t care about collateral damage.” Sally bit her lip, looking as nervous as Jacque felt.
“I think I have some pack work that needs to be dealt with,” Fane muttered before taking a bite from his bowl of cereal.
Jacque fed Slate another spoonful of food after he slapped the highchair tray to get her attention. “Don’t run.It will only get her more excited.”
“After everyone is done eating, could we all gather in the main living area?” Jen glanced around the room. “Today, I’d like to get some pictures. I’ve got outfits for each of the children.” Her eyes found Titus. “No sweaters, Tristen.”
Titus saluted her. “Whatever you say, Aunt Jessica.”
Jen narrowed her eyes on him. “Clever, and you’re being compliant. That can’t be a good thing.” Jen pointed two fingers at her eyes and then those two fingers at Titus. “I’m watching you.”
He grinned at her. “Or maybe I’m watching you.”
Jacque snorted. Little dude was totally holding his own against his crazy aunt.
“Noted.” Jen nodded. “If I can’t detect you while you’re watching me, I’ll buy you every ridiculous sweater you want.”
“Deal.” Titus gave her a thumbs-up.
Jen looked back at the others. “Main living room in twenty minutes. Babe, can you take the boxes there?”
Decebel narrowed his eyes on her. “Why did you have us carry them in here?”
“To peak everyone’s curiosity. Half the fun is watching them sweat.”
Jacque knew that by“them,”she meant Costin and Fane. But after counting the boxes, she knew her BFF was about to torture more than just her and Sally’s mates.
Decebel growled but then grabbed up three of the boxes again. Gavril and Sorin followed suit, then strode out of the room.
“The kids' clothes are in my suite,” Jen told Sally and Jacque.
Jacque gave her a thumbs-up, scooping another spoonful of food into Slate’s mouth.
Twenty minutes later, they were all gathered in the main living area. Thia proved to be in full mini-Jen mode. Jacque would like to be able to say that she tried to help corral the little hellion, butreallyshe, Sally, and Titus just laughed while Thia ran around holding the dress in the air while singing“JingleHells.”It was awesome.
When she finally caught her daughter, Jen wrestled the dress onto the girl and then proceeded to tell her how beautiful she was, which caused Thia to preen and spin in circles, making the dress fan out around her. This went on for so long it started to make Jacque nauseous. Thankfully, Thia finally ran out of steam and plopped down to examine one of the boxes.
“Now that the kids are ready,” Jen said, “I need the males to get dressed as well. Your clothes are in these boxes. Each of you, please take a box and go put on your outfits.”
The men all turned to stare at the boxes she indicated. Every single male’s eyebrows rose as their gazes bounced from Jen to the boxes.
“If these are speedos, I’m totally going to rock them with this bod.” Wadim grinned, rubbing his hands together and bouncing on the balls of his feet.Dude needs help.
“Sorry to disappoint, but they’re not speedos,” Jen said. The other males let out a collective sigh.
Each one grabbed a box and headed out of the room.
“If you don’t put them on, I’ll just have Peri do it for you,” Jen called out to them as the males filed out, muttering and cursing under their breath.
“This is going to be hilarious, isn’t it?” Elle asked.
Jen nodded. “It is. It really is.”
