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She pressed a kiss to my shoulder and started eating only the chicken off of my plate.
When I looked up, it was to find Ares staring at me in disbelief.
“What?” I challenged.
“Nothing.” She shook her head. “I’m just surprised, that’s all.”
I knew why.
She was flabbergasted that I was allowing Saylor to do the things that I would never allow anybody else.
I took a bite of a green bean and raised a challenging brow at her.
She narrowed her eyes.
“Hey, Saylor,” Ares said, eyes aimed on me. “Did you know that Lock wasn’t potty-trained until he was almost six?”
I narrowed my eyes.
“Really?” Saylor said. “That’s funny. Neither was I.”
Saylor’s hand found my thigh underneath the table and squeezed.
“He also didn’t kiss a girl until he was twenty-one,” she continued. “He was a late bloomer. He actually used to be fat before he went to bootcamp.”
That, unfortunately, was true.
Jonah started laughing.
“You were pretty chunky,” Jonah agreed. “But you grew tall as fuck while you were gone.”
That was true, too.
“I was the same,” Saylor said. “I was a chunky, cute baby. Sweet, fat little toddler. And I just kept getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger. I was way overweight as a kid.”
“I remember that,” Piper said. “You were always self-conscious about it, too. Then between one party I saw you at and the next, you’d bloomed. Slimmed-down.”
“My mom and I went on a diet.” Saylor laughed. “I learned the art of exercise and eating right. And I also found out that I had a thyroid problem. Once I was on meds for the thyroid problem, I slimmed down a lot.”
“Wow,” Ares said. “You’d never have guessed that you were overweight as a kid. I wouldn’t have even believed it about Lock, to tell you the truth.”
She grinned when she looked up at me.
“Me, neither.”
I looped an arm around her shoulder and pulled her into my chest.
“I don’t take meds anymore,” she said. “But I also am very conscious that I likely will when I’m older. The doctor told me that my hormones were throwing everything out of whack.”
“Wish I could blame mine on anything other than being lazy.” Aspen laughed.
Drew, who was sitting next to his wife, curled his arm around her neck and buried his face into her hair.
“You had my babies,” he said. “It’s understandable that you’re going to not be a tiny little stick anymore.”
Aspen smiled softly.
“And I’d do it again. All day and every day,” she said sweetly.
