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With a grin, Alex shook hands with me. “Same, bro.” A wicked gleam burned in his eyes. “Truth is after what happened in the elevator, I wasn’t sure you’d live for us to meet again.”
While I groaned, Gaby hissed before smacking Alex’s arm. “I can’t believe you brought that up.”
The dark-haired guy beside Alex sucked in a breath. “Wait, this is the elevator guy?”
As Alex nodded, Gaby whirled around to smack him too. “That’s not his name, Jax!”
He snorted. “Sorry.”
After glaring between the two, Gaby said, “Noah, this jackass is Jax Slater.”
At the mention of his name, I recognized him. “Your mom is in Jacob’s Ladder.”
He grinned. “Usually I get the ‘your dad’s the lead singer of Runaway Train’, but yeah, that’s my mom.”
Gripping Jax’s cheek a little harder than necessary, Gaby said, “He looks just like her, doesn’t he?”
“Yeah, he does. My mom loves country, so I grew up listening to the band.”
“Noah’s mom sings just as well as your mom does,” Gaby informed him.
Jax’s brows popped. “Cool. Do you sing?”
I shook my head. “Badly and only in the shower. All of Mom’s gift went to my sister.”
Gaby smiled up at me. “Noah’s just being modest about his gifts.”
“Ah, so he’s got out of elevator moves, too?” Alex questioned, his dark eyes dancing with amusement.
Although I shouldn’t have, I laughed at the expression of pure murder on Gaby’s face. She reminded me of Caroline whenever I aggravated the hell out of her. Holding his hands up in surrender, Alex said, “My bad. I won’t go there again.”
“You sure as hell better not.”
Alex turned to Jax. “What Gaby was alluding to is Noah is an Olympic swimmer.”
Jax’s eyes bulged. “No shit.”
I nodded. “Yeah.”
“Now I know why you look familiar. I remember you from watching the games.”
“Considering I was an alternate, I’m not sure how much you saw of me.”
It was my turn for Gaby to pinch my cheek. “I love it when you’re modest.”
“Whatever,” I replied with a grin.
“I don’t think I’ve ever met a gold medal winner,” Jax remarked.
“And I’ve never met a bunch of rising superstars, so I guess we’re even.”
He grinned. “Totally.” At the arrival of two more dark-haired, blue-eyed rockers, Jax said, “Good show, cousins.”
Glancing between them, I asked, “So all of you guys do the band family thing like Gaby does?”
With a grin, Jax replied, “Ethan and Linc are actually my cousins. Ethan belongs to my mom’s brother, Eli, and Linc, belongs to Gabe.”
“Right. The twins from Jacob’s Ladder.”
