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She smiled at me and moved to her son.
Nancy and Louise came in, both also wearing aprons, and Deb followed up the rear.
I was giving Nancy a hug while Deb took the casserole from Cap, and Louise nabbed the pudding from me while talking.
“I told Scott no football in this house, so he set up a man cave on the back patio. I suspect they’ll file in to stuff their faces, then go right back out.”
I turned to Tex. “Why aren’t you out with the guys?”
He was pushing out of the couch. “Because I had a cat in my lap. There’s rules, woman. Now it’s gone, I’m gone.”
And he pushed through the crowd to get through the kitchen to the back patio just as Luna and Dad showed.
“Hey, sister,” Luna greeted.
But she didn’t come in for a hug, because Dad was doing it.
“Heya, darlin’,” he said in my ear.
“Hey, Dad.”
He hugged me tight, like he hadn’t seen me in months, even though we had dinner together in the courtyard after their flight landed yesterday.
I let him, and not only because I was hugging him the same way.
“Hey, man.”
Dad and I broke at this new voice, and I turned to see Roam there, smiling at his brother.
Then I watched as they went in for a man hug, pounding on each other’s backs in a way it didn’t look like they felt it, but it hurt me.
They let each other go exchanging another smile before Roam came in for a hug from me.
“Oh my God,” I said, still hugging him (his were nearly as good as his mother’s). “I’m so glad you’re here.”
He moved away, saying, “I am too, if the smell in the kitchen is anything to go by.”
Moses came in next, and I got another hug and a “Hey there, darlin’. Lookin’ good.”
“You too, Moses,” I replied.
He let me go, and Dream strolled in.
Since she’d hogged Dusk and Feather without telling their fathers they existed, she’d had to give them up for this Thanksgiving to their dads, even if Feather hadn’t had a Thanksgiving yet. They got testy, so to keep things copasetic, she’d given in.
“You left me out there,” she accused Luna.
Luna made no reply to her sister, she turned to me.
“Brady and Knox also came,” she explained (part of) Dream’s bad mood.
Whoa.
Cap didn’t give up too much, because it wasn’t his to tell, but although Gabe was home in Grand Junction with his mom and dad, and Liam had gone to LA to spend Thanksgiving with his parents, Darius and Malia, and his little sister, Antonia, Knox and Brady had some family issues going on.
They’d been at loose ends for the holiday, and NI&S suspended operations for Thanksgiving (at least this branch did, they didn’t have any cases that required them to work).
Apparently, Luna (or Louise, or both) had stepped in.
