Lucky growls. “You have anickname?”
“I’m trying to stay neutral here, butseriously?” Jack adds.
Decker just glares at Rhys.
“Oh, grow up, all of you,” Sabrina says as she hands Henry off to Grey. “Grown-ups get to do grown-up things.”
“I love it when my friends find people who make them happy,” Emma says. “Family too, I guess.”
“Thanks, Em,” Theo says. “Appreciate being an afterthought.”
She grins at him.
And the baby in her lap makes a noise that’s followed by another noise that I don’t know well, but I can assume what just happened in that kid’s diaper.
Theo grins back at Emma. “See? That’s what happens when you make your brother feel second-rate.”
“I’ll get her, Em,” Jonas says, rising too. I’ve managed to avoid him, but he smiles at me. “If you leave before I’m back, nice to see you again. You too,” he adds to Rhys.
Rhys nods.
I murmur something that I hope sounds likenice to see you too, but my head is pounding and I want to go home.
“Won’t be saying that after next week,” Grey mutters to Theo, who gives him a death glare that makes Grey giggle.
“Stop, all of you,” Laney says. “It’s like having three extra toddlers.”
“You knew what you were marrying,” Zen replies, which has everyone else at the table laughing.
Laney rolls her eyes, then smiles at me. “Sorry for all of the inside jokes.”
“I have friends like that back home too,” I say.
It’s true, though I’m not as tight anymore with a lot of them as I used to be, and now Daphne has more inside jokes with Bea than with me.
Or so it feels sometimes.
“Don’t let these guys talk you into anything else tomorrow,” Emma says to me.
“I’m working tomorrow.”
“Ooh. Right. Getting ready for the…big event.”
I squint at her.
She shifts away to answer Bash, the almost four-year-old.
Laney’s suddenly grabbing things off the table to take inside.
Sabrina’s checking on the dogs.
Everyone except Rhys and Zen is suddenly very busy.
I lock eyes with Rhys.
What the hell is the big event?
One corner of his mouth crooks up.
