“Not to get ahead of things,” she said. “But I always wondered when my time came what I’d do. No way in hell my sister would be in my wedding. I’m not sure I even want heratit.”
He laughed at the appalled look on her face. “Afraid she’d steal the spotlight?”
“There is no doubt she’d turn my wedding into her show. Not happening. And I don’t have any really close friends.”
“Because you’ve never stayed in one place long enough?”
“Yeah. I’m on social media and monitor people that way but post little myself. I don’t have the time.”
“I pay people to do that shit for me. I do post pictures on Snapchat and Instagram.”
“I saw that video of you and Logan on TikTok,” she said, pointing her finger.
“Work account,” he said. Logan had someone take it of them surfing and post. It was good for business more than anything else.
“There were lots of pictures of you and everyone else at the expo a few weeks ago.”
“With you too,” he said, grinning. “You never said if that bothered you.”
She shrugged. “It was fine. I thought little of it one way or another. I knew it was going to happen.”
Other women in his past wanted that attention, but Saylor seemed as if she really wasn’t bothered either way.
“I’m glad. I know my lifestyle is a big change from what you’re used to.”
She got up and moved over to the couch he was sitting on, then climbed on his lap. “I’m used to change. I can handle it well. I will admit that I had a lot of nerves over meeting your mother in person, but she was so sweet.”
He snorted. “Few think my mother is sweet.”
“I’m sure all your siblings’ spouses do,” she said.
“That’s right, because they didn’t have to grow up with her. She’s mellowed now that she knows everyone is pairing up.”
“And I like Talia a lot. I feel bad for her. She looks pretty uncomfortable.”
His sister was due in a month, Laken due a few weeks later. He had to admit seeing his sisters pregnant made him want to deck their husbands.
Stupid reaction for sure, but it was hard not seeing them often and then getting hit with that sight knowing he’d have another niece and nephew he’d be visiting soon.
Good lord, all he did was fly to see family in the past few years. It used to be he got away with visiting twice a year and was happy about it.
Now it was at least a half a dozen times he was on a plane flying across the country.
“She seems very excited about the baby. I know Jace is.” He paused and figured now might be a time to bring this up since they were on the topic. “Do you want kids? I know it’s got to be trickier with your diabetes and being pregnant, right?”
“I’d like to have at least one,” she said. “It will be a lot more work but worth it. I guess depending on how easy it is would determine if I have more than one. But then with my job. A lot to factor in.”
It was on the tip of his tongue to tell her she didn’t need to work if they had a child together. Or she could work part time and find a nice quiet day job.
Talk about pulling the trigger before loading the gun.
They’d gotten through their first fight and he wasn’t about to bring something else up that was meaningless now.
Guess he’d gotten better at controlling the words out of his mouth.
He gave her a hug on his lap. “I’d like at least one. Maybe two. No more.”
“You don’t want eight like your mother? You know for guys it’s easy. You don’t have to do much.” She was laughing over that comment.
