Page 14 of Risky Play

“I almost died during that miscarriage. Noah found me and saved my life. He doesn’t want me to go through that again. Plus, I know how painful it was for him to watch me cry over a negative pregnancy test month after month.”

“Oh, Dinah,” I sighed.

God, I felt like such an asshole for bringing up kids. After everything my parents went through to get me and my sister, I should have known better.

She waved me away. “We talked about it a lot before we got married. We considered adoption and surrogacy. But…he’s my home and all I’ll ever need. Besides, I have a feeling we’ll start taking in more strays. I’ll just adopt a bunch of man-children.”

“Like me?” I asked with a grin.

She gave me a knowing look. “After we bought the house, Noah offered Logan a place here too, but with him having custody of his nephew, he didn’t want to impose. We offered it to McCarthy, too, after he and his girl broke up, but I think he’s rooming with one of the other guys.”

“I shouldn’t have brought up you having kids. I was my parent’s miracle baby.”

She smiled at me. “Matt, it’s okay. You have bigger problems than insulting me.” She got up from the table, grabbed another beer out of the fridge, then placed it in front of me.

“You know?” I asked.

“Yup.”

I took a swig of the beer. “I didn’t know she lived here.”

“She transferred to Franklin this fall. Noah’s been trying to get her to move in with us, but she needs to live her own life. He’s too protective of her.”

“So he doesn’t know⁠—”

“That you know what her pussy tastes like? No.”

“Jesus, Dinah!”

She grinned. “What?”

“I didn’t know she told you everything!”

She laughed.

Noah wasn’t an open book. He kept things close to the vest, but not his wife. She didn’t give a fuck. Normally, I liked her candor, but right now, not so much.

“You should see your face right now! Don’t worry—that’s between you two. I’m staying out of it.”

I wasn’t sure I believed her on that one.

Chapter Five

MADDIE

“Why was he there?” I asked my brother once I begrudgingly got into the passenger seat of his SUV.

Noah turned on his car and backed out of his garage. “Who Cally?”

“Yeah, Matt.”

“Oh, he lives with us.”

I felt like the floor dropped out from underneath me. Matt lived with Noah and Dinah? Okay, that explained a little more of why he freaked out when he found out I was Noah’s sister.

But what the fuck? Why didn’t Dinah mention that to me?

My brother clenched his teeth as he sped off to the other side of town.