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Aspen snorted.“I think I’d like your mom.I missed a lot not growing up here.I kind of know Bruce.I hear a ton about Cameron.”She tipped her head toward Nora.“And I see your mom around town.What’s with the other Barron brother?”
A chill traced down my spine.“The other brother?”Did I manage to sound nonchalant?
Nora ran her fingers along the delicate chain at her neck.“He’s, um, in Texas, I think.”
“Does he have kids?”Aspen asked.
Lyric’s gaze flicked to Nora.Smart girl.If the gossip spread, it was Nora spilling the deets.Lyric would be shunned by the family on Cameron and Naomi’s decree if either one thought she was talking about them.
Nora chewed her bottom lip like she knew she wasn’t supposed to say but couldn’t talk herself out of answering.“Two sons.I haven’t met them.I-I don’t know much about them.”
“How old are they?”Aspen leaned forward, her curiosity spilling out like her cleavage.I would cut a bitch for tits like that.But I refused to get cut for tits like that, like some of my husband’s friends suggested.Assholes.All of them.
“Um… I think the oldest is close to Stetson’s age, maybe a little younger, more like Evander and Holden’s age.Thirty-ish.The younger one is, I don’t know, maybe your age.That’s all I know really.”Nora’s leg bobbed so hard under the table, her entire body shook.
“Ohmigosh, more Barron men?And with a Texas drawl?Can you imagine?”Aspen held her hands up.“Sorry.It’s none of my business.”
Nora’s grin brimmed with relief, but she played it off.“It’s not a wedding if we aren’t talking about everyone and their relatives.”
Lyric snickered.“Right?Only with Nora here, we’re safe.She’s a Barron.”
I bit the inside of my cheek and fiddled with the tab of my can.What would they think—what would they all think—if I told them that Nora wasn’t the only Barron at the table?That I was terrified of getting pulled over anywhere in the county because I wasn’t divorced like I had let Kennedy and Liam assume and my Texas driver’s license had my legal name on it: Delaney Barron?
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