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“Oh, god, Ky! You don’t know what you’re getting into!” Aggie lifted her head and looked around. “Dad! Donnie’s trying to get Kyrin to wrestle!”
A cheer went up as I heard the word wrestle. Looking at Donnie’s massive chest, I shrugged, figuring my odds of breaking something were high, but it still sounded like fun.
“Don’t be a snitch, Scoot!” Donnie lifted a wriggling Aggie over his head and held her there like she was a stuffed doll. “I promise I won’t hurt your boyfriend’s pretty face.”
I stared up at Aggie dangling in the air and shook my head. Donnie was going to break more than a few bones of mine, but there was no way I was backing out. “Alright, come on,Donna. Let’s go.”
Sadie and Jenny just sighed and rolled their eyes. Sadie stood up and narrowed her eyes at her husband. "We'll take the kids inside to paint the rocks they found earlier. If you break something, Matt, I'm not taking care of you."
32
***Knight***
StandingnexttoMarkand a few of Aggie’s uncles, I couldn’t quite believe what I was seeing. “Is that…?”
Mark sighed. “An inflatable kiddie pool being filled with oil? Yeah. It’s the only way we would let the kids fight when they were little and it stuck.”
James, a retired rodeo rider, slapped his hat against his thigh. “These damn kids never grow up. I thought them having kids of their own would make them act better when we take them out, but nope. It seems maturity never caught on. I wonder what two idiots from our bunch are going first.”
When I saw Kyrin marching towards the pool, a stupid grin on his face, I laughed. “Looks like you can only claim one of the idiots, sir.”
“Oh, well, that’s nice.” Amy, the man’s wife, leaned into him and smiled into her giant cup of peach liqueur. When she’d offered me a drink, I’d thought I’d heard her wrong until she shoved it under my nose. “I think I’m going to go use the powder room, honey.”
"Looks like Sadie and Jenny are taking all the kids inside. You head in there now, you'll be trapped watching them." James glanced at her cup of alcohol and grinned. "I don't think the kids need to see Aunt Amy sloshed."
She ran her hand down his chest. "I'm not planning on being around the kids, honey."
Ignoring the suggestive wink she sent her husband was impossible, but I managed to hold in my chuckle over James’ comical eagerness when he understood what his wife was suggesting until the pair had stumbled away. I sought out my own honey in the midst of her family and found her dangling from the hands of her giant cousin, Donnie.
“She’s different around them, huh?” Mark nodded at his daughter and smiled. “She needs them to show up and calm her down every so often.”
I took a long pull from my beer as I watched her. “The more I get to know her, the better she gets. I never expected her to be so…sweet.”
Mark laughed and elbowed me. “Oh, you’ve got it bad. Sweet? I don’t know if I’d say sweet, son. She’s a live wire. Why do you think I didn’t even bat an eye when I realized my baby girl is shacking up with three men? She’s…fierce. If she became president through a coup one day, I wouldn’t be surprised.”
I couldn’t take my eyes off her as she laughed wildly and fought like a feral cat to get down. “Call me crazy, but I still think she’s sweet.”
“I’ll call you sucker.” He clapped me on the shoulder. “People called me insane when I told them her momma was an angel. Maybe the ones who are supposed to see through the fire do, even when everyone else thinks they’re insane. I don’t know. Right now, we’d better go make sure Donnie doesn’t hurt your brother. You’ve got that twin thing, right? If Donnie snaps Kyrin’s arm, will you feel it?”
It took me a second to follow his change of subject after his first thoughts. When I did manage to catch up, I laughed out loud. “I hope not, sir.”
When we got closer to the group gathered around the kiddie pool, Donnie made a show of passing Aggie off to his brother, Danny. Both men were massive, somehow making even Kyrin’s large size look average. I grinned when Aggie grabbed Danny’s face and pulled at each side of his mouth with her hooked fingers. He dropped her as soon as he’d gotten her.
She tried to leap on Donnie’s back, but another of her cousins, Hank, got in the way. He blocked her in an attempt to let Donnie and Kyrin wrestle, but Aggie had other plans. She took a few steps back and then charged Hank, tackling him into the pool. A cheer went up as she stood up and flexed while baring her teeth.
“You can really tell she was raised on a farm right about now, can’t you?” Mark crossed his arms over his chest and watched his daughter with pride beaming from his every cell.
I had to bite back a moan at the sight of Aggie covered in oil with her clothes plastered to her body. I shifted my weight from one foot to the other, battling the urge to just grab her and steal her away.
As we watched, she disappeared, having her legs taken out from under her by Hank. He immediately tried to pin her while Danny counted, but she wiggled out from under him and then climbed on his back like a little monkey. Hank couldn’t get his arms out from under him with her on his back and the oil making everything slick. Danny must’ve decided it counted as a pin and started counting. When he reached three, everyone went wild cheering for Aggie.
Danny grabbed her arm as she climbed to her feet and held it high. “Scoot wins again! She’s still undefeated!”
I cleared my throat as I watched her dance around. “I think I’m going to go celebrate with the champ, sir.”
“Keep it clean, son. Knowing and seeing are two different things. I’d had to have to show off my wrestling skills.”
I nodded and backed away, worried my shit-eating grin would give away my intentions. “We wouldn’t want that.”
