"We'd love to," Dom said.
"Great! Felik and Jeremiah are coming too. Cord's youngest has the sniffles, so they're staying home. The last thing we need is another cold running through this house."
Andro came up behind his mate and wrapped his arms around his omega. He kissed his neck, and Joey's eyes rolled back. He elbowed Andro. "Quit that, we have company."
"It's Dom. Three months ago he walked in on us while you were giving me a blowjob at my desk."
Joey's eyes went wide. "You told me he didn't see anything. You didn’t see anything, right?"
"I saw nothing, I assure you," Dom said.
Andro chuckled. “Why do you care, love? It was my dick he would have seen, not yours. He didn’t see anything because you’re a champion dee–”
Joey put a hand over his mate’s mouth. “Your son is right there.”
The boy had walked over to a decorative table that was against the wall, and he was currently making car noises while he drove along the edge.
“I don’t think he heard me,” Andro said.
This was...different than what I was used to. More family-like and light.
"Come on." Andro led us into a room which was not his official office, but it was some sort of study. It had bookshelves along the wall and a table with multiple chairs. Andro sat down at one, and his son climbed into his lap. "You can fill me in on what Carmine's plans are while he’s in town."
I followed Dom's lead and sat down when he did. "Mostly I just want to make sure there are no loose ends where Webb is concerned."
"Great. It’s always a good idea to leave no stone unturned. Dom, why don't you introduce him around."
"Thank you, sir. That would be great."
Andro and Dom talked a while longer about some assignment that Dom worked on in the past. I knew they were careful not to say anything revealing with me there. Meanwhile, I watched the child curled up on Andro's lap. The little boy had his thumb in his mouth and his eyes were drifting closed. Andro rubbed his back softly. Soon the kid would be totally conked out.
"Is he asleep?" Andro nodded toward his kid.
I realized he was talking to me. "Almost."
"Good. He's at the fun age where afternoon naps are being phased out. It's a rough one. You never know what sort of kid you're going to get one day to the next. "
"He seems content today." Dom seemed relaxed around kids. That was reassuring.
"We took him to the trampoline park this morning." Andro wrinkled his nose in disgust like the thought of such a place turned his stomach.
I tried to picture Andro at a crowded trampoline park with tons of rowdy kids running around. It wasn’t easy.
“I’m thinking about buying one.” Andro shocked me once again. “It could be safer for the kids, we could have more vetted families around, and it would be a great place to launder money or run drugs.”
Dom’s lips twitched. “And what did Joey say?”
“He said I can’t buy entertainment places for the kids just because I don’t want to deal with other brats running around. But there was a boy twice Theo’s size and he wouldn’t let him have a chance on this roller bar thing, I don’t know what it was. But it upset Theo.”
I clenched my jaw to keep from laughing. I had a feeling I was seeing a side of Andro not many got to see.
"Anyway, I don’t want to bore you all with shop talk. Tell me about your great-uncle Anthony, Carmine. How is he these days? It's been years since I last saw him. A decade at least, I think. Do they still call him Big Tuna?"
"He's great. Retired last year, but he still keeps his hand in a few things. And yes, most everyone still refers to him as BigTuna. Though, as I understand it, there is no one left alive that understands where the nickname came from."
Andro laughed. "Indeed. That doesn't surprise me. He never did appreciate the moniker."
We talked a while longer. Andro knew an obscene amount of information about my family and their dealings on the west coast. It seemed insane to me that he would know so much, but it was probably why he was so incredibly successful where he was. The man had a mind like a steel trap, and his husband was a whiz with the books.
