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“Um. I did something.”
His brow lifted.
I approached him and tucked my arm through his as we resumed walking to the building. Reagan was waiting just inside the door. Her gaze dropped to our joined arms, and she smiled tentatively before she gave me a discreet thumbs up by her hip.
Christian with his cop eyes caught it though. Just like he caught everything. “What’s that about?”
“Your daughter is pretty awesome. Just saying.”
He grabbed the door to hold it open for me, looming over me in that way that made my skin prickle with awareness. “That’s true. What did you do, Honey?”
“How do you feel about meeting my parents while I meet yours?” I ducked under his arm to go inside.
“I don’t know what that means exactly.”
I patted his chest before we joined Reagan. “Me either. Mav is setting it up.”
“Those are probably the most terrifying words I’ve ever heard.”
EIGHTEEN
We spentthe day together as a family. I’d never had a family day before in my life and I still couldn’t quite believe everything was working so well.
I’d been taught to watch for danger. To scan for inherent flaws in the system that could lead to chaos. Instead, even with more cracks than I could imagine, things were just humming along without much of my help.
But I was no dummy. The glue to all of it was Honey.
Best of all? As soon as we’d finished the university tour, she’d called her brother and told him she wasn’t ready for the family grilling and did not want to have it the same weekend she officially met all of my family. He said that was probably wise and that with Thanksgiving this upcoming week, everyone was super busy, anyway.
Oh, and also, Van was having twins. Pass the yams.
“Hmm.” I couldn’t help gazing at Honey’s curvy stomach after dinner as I was helping her wash dishes. Reagan was settling into her bedroom upstairs. It really was almost as if we weren’t playing at this whole family deal.
This could be a true beginning for us.
“Hmm what?”
“You don’t think twins run in your family too, do you?”
“Bite your tongue.” She gasped aloud as she finished loading the dishwasher and started the cycle. “But Murphy had twins!”
I grinned evilly, mostly just to freak her out. “Pretty sure it was just the normal egg splitting there. Happens all the time.”
“Not exactly all the time. Twins are actually pretty rare.”
“Hmm.”
She thwacked me with her wet dish towel, causing me to laugh. I set down my own dish towel and turned toward her to pull her into my arms. “I’d be perfectly happy with one baby.”
“Are you sure? I don’t want you to get your hopes up with all these ideas of babies popping out all over.” She lowered her head. “I don’t want to disappoint you.”
“I want whatever we both want, subject to change. No preplanned agenda, I swear.” I nuzzled her ear. “Though the practice that kind of situation requires sounds just fine to me.”
“I just bet.” She toyed with my collar. “Guess they only saw the sex of one baby on the ultrasound so far. One is a boy.”
“That’s nice,” I said noncommittally.
She nudged my shoulder. “You want a boy, don’t you? Don’t lie. All men want boys.”
