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Talon closed the front door behind him and headed to the sunroom, which had become Jenna’s late afternoon refuge.
He expected to find her propped on pillows in her favorite chaise lounge, maybe with one of her frilly teacups on the table beside her.
But then he heard voices. And then he heard laughter.
He rounded the corner and stopped.
Jenna was exactly where he thought she’d be. Chaise lounge, teacup, long, silk robe pooled at her feet.
But that was where his expectations ended.
Anna sat across from Jenna’s lounge, shoes kicked off her feet, wine glass in hand.
She was more relaxed than he’d seen her in years.
He was used to Anna appearing uptight, anxious.
Looked like conversation with his girl and the greater part of a bottle of wine had finally taken the edge off.
Talon rolled with the tableau in front of him. On his way across the room to Jenna, he nodded at Anna, “Hey, Anna.”
She lifted her glass in his direction, “Hi, Talon.”
Talon leaned down to brush a kiss across Jenna’s cheek, “Princess, what you up to?”
Jenna beamed up at him, “Remember the help I needed in the baby’s room?”
She didn’t give him the chance to respond, which Talon appreciated because he didn’t have the first clue what she was talking about.
“Well, Lucky was coming over to pick up Cassie for the movies, so I asked if Anna minded riding with so she could give me that help I needed.” At this, Jenna’s grin deepened. “I paid her back with a bottle of wine. So now she’s stuck here, and the least I can do is feed her. Do you want to maybe get started on whatever it was you were planning to grill tonight?”
Talon bit his lip to keep from laughing.
His girl was in her element and feeling herself, and he was not a man to disappoint.
Anna put her glass on the table next to Anna’s teacup and started to rise, “No, don’t go to any trouble. I can walk home. It’s only a couple of blocks.”
Talon held out a hand, “It’s no trouble at all. I’ll go get the grill started.”
Talon’s boots echoed through the formal dining room, into the kitchen, and out the back door.
He stopped by the grill with a good view back into the sunroom where the two women had settled in and were chatting like old school friends, and while he watched his girl try to help a sister find her way back to happy, the love he felt for her glowed even brighter.
He pulled his phone from his pocket and dialed.
He was met with Gate’s gruff, “You just fucking left.”
Talon chuckled, “You might want to get over to my house.”
“Sweet okay? She go into labor or something?” Gate asked.
“Or something,” Talon answered. “Your wife is currently in Jenna’s sunroom halfway through a bottle of wine with no ride home.”
“I’m on the way.”
And Talon was left with dead air.
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