“Did you get a lot of toys for Christmas?”Trick asked him.
“Yes, I did.”Oliver’s smile grew under their attention.“And Jed got me and Sadie a cut with his name on the back.”
“He did, did he?”Trick’s brows arched at that bit of information.
“Yes!”Oliver nodded his head enthusiastically.“I can’t wait to wear it!”
“And I can’t wait to see you in it.”Trick ruffled his hair and said, “I think Keegan and Ryker are around here someplace.”He turned around to see where the kids had gotten off to.“Oh, yeah.They’re over there playing basketball.”He pointed across the room.
“Can I go play?”Sadie was shocked to see that her nephew had asked Jed for permission instead of her.She wasn’t sure how she felt about that.For as long as he’d been alive, it was always her or her brother he sought permission from.Now it looked like he was adding Jed to that very short list of people he trusted.
“Yeah, buddy.Go have fun.”Jed’s gaze followed him all the way across the room.
“Are you going to get your woman situated and help us out or what?”Dagger asked as he backed through the door with a box labeled crib.
“Yes.I’m doing that now.”He started to steer her toward the women already making use of the two couches they’d brought in and set along the wall near the kitchen.Surely, that wasn’t their final resting spot?
“I can go.You don’t have to walk me over there.”Sadie couldn’t hide behind him forever.Might as well get started with making friends with the old ladies.She’d be lying if she said she wasn’t happy to see that Kylie wasn’t among them.She didn’t for a minute think the woman wasn’t here because she’d seen Darren and Tuck carrying something inside as they were getting out of Jed’s truck.
“Are you sure?”His hand dropped to hers, giving it a squeeze.
“Yes.I’ll be fine.”She smiled, hoping to reassure him.She didn’t want him worrying about her when he had things he needed to do.
He cupped her face in both his hands, the leather bracelet she bought him in her peripheral vision.“Have I ever told you how amazing you are?”
Damn.The way he was looking at her right now made her wish they were alone.“No,” she giggled.
“So fucking amazing.”He lowered his mouth to hers, his kiss telling her without words just how amazing he found her.By the time the kiss ended, she had no doubts.Cat calls from the men bringing things through the door broke them apart.He smiled down at her, his hands still cupping her face.“So fucking glad I got my head out of my ass.”
Her laugh was strangled.“I’m glad you got your head out of your ass, too.”
“Get a room!”Jackson shouted from the doorway.
“I gotta get to work.”
“Okay.”
He spun her around and swatted her ass as she started to walk away.She ran into Darren and Tuck along the way.Both greeted her, and Darren asked how she was feeling.
“Oh, someone’s got it bad,” Bellamy joked as she drew near.
“Sadie does look rather happy.”Calliope bounced her eight-month-old daughter, Harper, on her lap.
“I was talking about Jed.The man looks positively smitten.”Bellamy sat on the couch with her feet elevated on a chair with a pillow for cushioning.“By the looks of it, he must have taken my advice to heart.The man can’t take his eyes off of you.”
Sadie took a seat at the end of one of the couches.At Belamy's comment, she turned to see Jed helping Chris carry in a long, heavy-looking box, his gaze meeting hers with a smile.Her heart skipped a beat as she returned his smile.
“He'd better watch where he’s going, or he’s going to trip and fall,” Ginny chuckled.
“So when did you get back together?”Lindsey asked.She had her three-month-old son, Declan, on her lap.He was sound asleep despite all the activity going on around him.
“Last night.”
“How did it happen?”Calliope asked.She had her adorable daughter in her lap.Harper was pulling at strands of her mom’s hair, trying to put them in her mouth.
Sharing personal details of her life was hard for Sadie.She didn’t have any close female friends that she confided in.All her friends from school moved on with their lives and didn’t have time for her when she started helping her brother raise Oliver.She had friends at her old job in Taos, but they were more acquaintances.She never met them outside of work and she never told them any details going on in her life.Again, if she was going to be a part of Jed’s life, she was going to have to learn how to do that with these women.
“He came by work last night and wanted to talk.I didn’t want to deal with him at the time and told him to leave.”She explained about the old man, Lenny, and how he and Jed had become friends when Jed was still coming to hang out with her every night.When Lenny found out they’d broken up and why, he wouldn’t let Jed have the seat next to him like he used to.“Then Dick came out with his shotgun and pointed it at Jed.He told him to leave and never come back.Of course, Jed reminded him what club he belonged to and Dick told him the Sons weren’t the only ones who knew how to make people disappear.Jed wisely chose to leave.”
