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“Do you think we should warn the kids?”
I shake my head. “No. If we make a big deal about Jude coming today, they might overwhelm Jude with questions he can’t answer. I think it’s better if we make itnota big thing. Just allow them to show up and say he’s staying with Luca and Byron for now. Try to get the kids to play with him without turning it into a circus.” I shrug. “I don’t really know.”
She nods slowly. “I think it’s probably a good idea. You’re right.”
Grinning at her, I press a kiss on her forehead and squeeze her to me. “My two favorite words.”
Skye playfully pinches my ribs. “Ha-fucking-ha!”
Storm sticks her head into the dining room, her dark brows raised. “Skye, you coming back to help?”
Dani raises a hand. “I can help.”
Everyone turns toward her. “No,” the chorus goes up, and Dani’s jaw drops.
She props her hands on her hips looking incredulous. “Come on. There has to be something I can help with besides setting the goddamn table.”
Storm shakes her head. “Stick with what you’re good at.”
Dani scowls, but everybody laughs it off like we do every holiday when she tries to make her way back into the kitchen, where she absolutely does not belong.
Nora walks over and bumps her sister’s hip with her own. “Don’t look so put out. You’re very good at a lot of things. Cooking just isn’t one of them.”
Landon approaches Storm and whispers something in her ear that has her jerking back with wide eyes—likely the same thing I revealed to Skye.
Skye starts to pull out of my arms to follow her sister back into the kitchen, but I tug her up against me and lower my mouth to her ear. “When we get home, you’re going to bake some of my favorite cookies, right? Seeing you bent over that oven got me thinking about our first time together.”
My cock grows between us, and she giggles and rubs against it. “Atlas and Astrid will be home tonight…”
I pull back and scowl. “Maybe we can arrange another sleepover for them at someone else’s house.”
Skye laughs and pushes away from me, leaving me to adjust my semi so it isn’t obvious. I wander back out into the living room and over to where Savage talks with Saint, Landon, and Stone.
I stop next to my best friend. “So, they’re on their way?”
Savage nods.
“Everyone knows now?”
Landon’s blond head bobs. “I told Storm.”
Saint nods. “I told Caroline.”
Stone inclines his head toward the dining room. “I told Nora.”
I look between all of them. “And we are all in agreement that we don’t say anything to the kids?”
Savage rubs a hand across his stubbled jaw. “That’s right.”
Angelina pops her head into our little huddle, her blue gaze darting to Savage. “What aren’t you telling us?”
Shit.
I gently try to nudge her back. “Don’t worry about it.”
She scowls slightly. “You know, I’m twenty-two. I’m not a kid anymore.”
Landon wraps his arm around his stepdaughter and tugs her up against him, pressing a kiss the top of her head. “You’ll always be a kid, even when you’re forty.”
