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“I found it,” Zeke says, coming up behind me and putting it on top of my head. “Just had to look at the right angle is all.” He presses a kiss to my shoulder and a warm shiver rolls down my spine, recalling the way he found the right angle in the shower this morning and bit my shoulder to keep from yelling too loud when he came.
“Oh, is that all?” I tease.
“Was it a cute one?” Ivan asks. He just got new glasses and he nudges the little round frames up his nose with the precision of an ivy-league engineer.
“A cute angle?” Zeke says with a snort.
I suppress a laugh as Zeke clearly misses what his astute nephew is asking.
“It certainly wasn’t a right one,” I say, then look at Zeke, who is frowning, looking more puzzled than anything. “It might have been obtuse though.”
“Definitely obtuse,” Ivan says, and the two of us laugh together.
“Hey, don’t steal my friends, Ivan theTerrible!”Rachel says.
Ivan’s face turns red and he’s ready to yell something particularly vicious at his sister when Edie interrupts.
“Could someone show me where the restroom is?” she asks.
“I can,” Ivan says, his cheeks turning from red to pink.
“Didn’t she go before you left the hotel?” I ask Dar, who is watching her as if she walked on water.
“Oh, you know how pr—” He starts coughing, as if he’s choked on something, and then smiles. “She’s always telling me she has a tiny bladder.”
I cock my head and stare him down. He starts to squirm and I hear Zeke chuckle from where he stands behind me.
“Oh, definitely. And now that she’s not drinking alcohol, it just goes right through her.”
“Exactly,” he says, not realizing what he’s just confirmed.
“What did I miss?” Edie says as she returns, standing next to me.
“Dar was just telling us about how you accidentally booked the Alaska cruise for next August, not November, but did it from the UK site and that’s why you thought it left on November eighth, instead of August eleventh.”
“I can’t believe I did that,” she says with a little laugh.
He passes her a glass of cider and she sips.
“He also mentioned that you hadn’t had any champagne, so I refilled your glass.”
She spits out what was in her mouth and then covers her mouth with her delicate fingers. I just grin.
“Congrats, Mama,” I say, kissing her cheek.
She glares at Dar, and he stares at me, mouth opened, gob smacked.
“How…?”
“Don’t even try to best these women,” Zeke says, wrapping his arms around my waist and pressing another kiss to my shoulder. “It’s their world, we just get to hold their hand.”
Dar finds Edie a napkin and helps her dab cider out of her silk sweater.
“You do a lot more than just hold my hand,” I whisper.
“I know,” Zeke says. “Like that thing I did in the shower? I was thinking we could try it again, but in the bathroom. Now. Thoughts?”
“Dinner is ready!” Sarah calls from the dining room.
