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“I don’t wear a suit as well as Thomas and my bank account would never look like Reese’s.”
Thomas Klein, Rose’s husband, was an attorney. Reese McGill was a woodworker but heir to a billion-dollar fortune. So yeah, Zane wouldn’t find much comfort in them even though they were nice enough men that he could see.
“No one has an account like Reese’s,” Luke said.
“What do you want to eat?” Zane asked.
“I’ll make it,” Lily said. “Let me know.”
“No,” he said. “I appreciate it but can make my own lunch. I can’t tell you the last time a woman made food for me.”
Lily laughed. “Then you are looking for the wrong woman. Sit and let me make it. Zane knows not to argue.”
“She’s right,” Zane said. “Tell her what you like.”
“I’m not fussy. Make me what you make Zane if you insist. We always ate the same thing anyway. And thank you.”
Lily smiled. “Easy enough.”
He sat at the table off the kitchen island. “Anything you need at the house now that you’re staying?” Zane asked.
“Nah,” he said. “It’s all good. I told you, the best place I’ve ever lived. Couldn’t be happier.”
“Good,” Zane said.
“Daddy says you’re living at my old house,” Willow said. “Are you in my room or his?”
He smiled at Zane’s daughter. “I’m in his old room. Yours has some exercise equipment in it.”
“That’s not fun,” Willow said. “I had a lot of dolls and arts and crafts in my room too.”
Lily laughed. “You have more here. You even have a spare room filled with those things too.”
“Daddy said I have to give that room up when you have another baby,” Willow said.
Lily looked at Zane. “Oh really? Ryder is fine in my office upstairs and you know it. That leaves three more rooms on the second floor.”
He looked between husband and wife. “But you don’t get any sleep with Ryder close by.”
Luke knew Zane’s room was on the third floor; the old attic had been converted and Lily had her office there that was turned into a nursery. She’d moved her office down to the first floor now.
This older colonial had been modernized and was huge. Large rooms on all floors and he suspected that Zane would just add to it if he needed.
“More than enough space,” he said to his buddy.
“Daddy can build me my own workshop,” Willow said. “That is what I told Mommy and she agreed.”
“Dude,” he said to Zane. “You’re busted.”
“It’s all good,” Zane said. “Someday you’ll understand. Having your kids so close, you hear every noise they make and are jumping up to check on them.”
“You don’t check on me anymore, Daddy,” Willow said.
“Don’t be so sure of that, Willow,” Zane said. “You just sleep through it.”
Yeah, there was a shitload of jealousy here that he never expected to see. Luke just didn’t think he’d ever see any kind of happiness in his life either.
This was the first he witnessed something like this and that was sad for thirty-two years old.
