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"Sure you do. That’s who we are. Don’t change now," she teased, which made me pull a face. That, in turn, had her frowning. "Hey, what’s going on with you?"
"Everything’s changing," I said softly, my gaze on the city skyline again. "I-I was okay with that, but it’s just shifting too fast."
"Tell me. A problem shared is a problem halved."
My eyes flared at that. "You seriously have been kidnapped by aliens!"
"No, but Luc’s mom comes out with those kinds of sayings all the time." She shot me a sheepish grin. "I like it. She’s nice."
Jen had low expectations for parents, and after how she’d been raised, I couldn’t blame her.
I hoped Luc’s mom was kinder than his sister.
I still wanted to stomp on Aurora's tits for the way she’d acted at Saverina’s christening.
"Anyway, out with it. What’s changing?"
"You know Star?"
"The hacker friend of yours who’s a headcase?"
"Yeah. She’s gone missing. Aidan’s father died. Your dad did a Jesus at Easter act. Mom’s sick and she kept it from us. You’re pregnant again—"
"Whoa! Lorelei’s sick?"
"Yeah. ‘C’ word. And I’m not talking cunt. Although, maybe it is. It’s in that region. Can you catch cancer of the cunt?"
"I don’t think so. Why don’t you know which ‘region?’"
"Because she didn’t want to tell me."
"I guess that’s her right," Jen said softly.
"I’m not saying it isn’t." After talking about this with Aidan, who’d made me understand things from my mom’s point of view, I got it. It didn’t mean it hurt any less though. "I’m just saying everything is changing, and I still feel like I’m twenty-one and have a lot to prove to the world."
"Is this because you’re going to be thirty-six next year?"
"No. Maybe. I guess? I don’t even know."
"How are things with you and Aidan?" I shot her a dopey grin which had her laughing. "So, one thing’s right in your world at least."
I chuckled. "Yeah. Oh, my God, he tied me to the bed and left me, Jen. He actually left me to go out on business. I’ve never been more pissed off and turned on at the same time."
Snickering, she shook her head. "You’re crazy."
"About him," I agreed with a wink, but I mirrored her actions and looped my arm around her waist too. Hugging her, I pressed a kiss to her cheek and whispered, "If you’re happy about the baby, then I’m happy too."
"I’m beyond happy. Luc is such a great dad. It’s perfect how close in age these two will be to each other." She beamed a grin at me, one that was infused with so much contentment that I had to sigh.
"You’re growing up," I said pitifully. "I guess that means I have to as well."
Snorting, she told me, "You’ll be eighty and will still act like a thirteen-year-old, Savannah. Aidan’ll be in luck though."
"Why?"
She stuck her tongue in her cheek. "Because you’ll keep his prostate nice and young."
"Ew," I joked, shoving her in the side, but I was laughing at the same time.
Over the next hour or so, as we eventually joined our guys in the dining room, I came to realize that she was right.
Sure, she was going to be a mom again, but another kid wouldn’t change the fact that Jen was a snippety, exacting pain in the ass. Saverina sure as shit hadn’t changed her sparking personality. Nor did my turning thirty-six change the fact that I was a bossy bitch who got on people’s nerves.
Aidan liked me. Jen did too.
I just had to make sure her kids did as well.
It looked like I was going to be spending a fortune at toy stores the country over because, even if Jen made Aoife this kid's godmother too, that wasn't going to stop me from being the best aunt in the universe.
