Raven grabbed me by the forearm. “Don’t even try to get out of this. Family game means everyone.”
“And we never leave our family out!” Colin shouted, that precious grin directed at me.
My chest squeezed. “I wouldn’t dare miss this.”
“Looks like my Little Luna is going to have her first game of hide and seek,” Otto said in a gentle voice that still tumbled and shook in his chest. “Come to Daddy, my princess.”
She gave him a gurgled, toothless smile, that black hair so soft around her porcelain face. Nothing but dimples and chubby cheeks.
The man basically melted as he took her.
Raven melted, too.
“Maybe we don’t have to play,” she suggested with a coy grin.
Otto chuckled. “Don’t worry, baby, you and I will have our own game later.”
“Tease,” she whispered back.
“You callin’ me a tease when I have to look at you dressed like that all afternoon? You know exactly how to have me twisted around those pretty little fingers, don’t you?”
In an instant, they were wrapped in each other, their baby enfolded between them as they murmured words that none of us could hear.
“Dude does it just to drive me out of my mind,” River grumbled as he helped Charleigh to her feet.
Giggling, she snuggled into his chest. “You just don’t have anyone to get annoyed at you when you do the same to me.”
He curled a muscled arm around her, and she yelped as he tugged her close.
“Oh, sheesh, they’re gettin’ all lovey dovey again. They’ve been kissing a whole lot, so I bet that means I’m going to get a baby brother or sister.” Nolan huffed like it was putting him out.
River grinned down at him, still holding Charleigh tight. “What would you say about that? A baby brother or sister?”
“I say I like it as long as I don’t gotta share a room.”
“Well, we’ll have to keep that in mind.” River looked back at Charleigh. She blushed a sweet shade of excitement and anticipation.
“Uh, do you have something you need to tell us?” Otto demanded with a cock of his head.
“Nothin’ specific yet.” River turned the weight of his attention to Charleigh, his words dropping into seduction as he whispered toward her. “But I’m working on it.”
“Work harder,” Theo razzed from off to the side.
“Don’t mind if I do.” He buried his face in Charleigh’s neck.
“All right, there are children present,” Kane said with a laugh. “Think we’d better divert course and do this thing!” He swung his arms out wide and smacked his hands together.
“We’re gonna do it, Daddy!” Maci hopped toward him.
“All right then. This round’s rules.” Kane cracked his knuckles and gave a grin that promised he was up to no good. “Girls hide first. Their men find them and tag them before they make it back to base on those stairs…” He pointed to the back porch steps. “Then we get onefavor.”
It smacked of innuendo.
Emery knocked his hip with hers. “You’re bound to get one of those anyway. What’s in it for me?”
“That favor.” He wagged his brows.
Playfully, she shoved him in the shoulder. “You think that’s what I’m living for, huh?”
