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“You’re the best, Blake. Always know that.”
“Back at you.” They kissed again; this time quicker than before. “I love you.”
“I love you, too.”
Grabbing her bag and the car keys, Blake called Mason on her way out the car and made plans to pick her up. Mason seemed to have been waiting for her call, and Blake wondered exactly how much Alexis had planned to get her girls’ night with Sophia.
Blake and Mason didn’t have to discuss their destination. Straight to Ale offered the best liquor selection and had the best food. It didn’t matter that they were biased since they were related to the owners. If people wanted food and drinks in the Cove, Straight to Ale was the spot. They found two bar stools at the bar and sat.
“So, Alexis finally kicked you out, huh?” Emily laughed as she approached them. She was wearing a Straight to Ale hoodie with her hair pulled back under a baseball cap. “I was wondering when you two would get here.”
“Did she make a reservation for us?” Blake laughed and rolled her eyes. “I’ll have a Long Island, please, and keep ’em coming.”
“Sure thing. Mace?”
“Same.”
“Food?” Emily asked.
“Cheese fries, extra cheese,” Blake ordered for them.
“Coming up.”
As Emily headed over to the computer to log their order, Blake turned in her chair toward Mason.
“Did Alexis really call you and tell you to take me out?”
“Yup,” she laughed. “She said she felt bad because you have been doing so much for her but she really wanted just a night with Sophia.”
“And I’m going to say no to that? Why couldn’t she just ask me?”
“I don’t know, dude. Pregnant women are weird.”
“How would you know?”
“I was here when Mom and Mama had kids.” Mason shrugged. Although Blake knew Mason didn’t mean anything negative with her comment, it still stung Blake. She hadn’t been around for her siblings’ births; that was a fact she never could change. But it still didn’t make it any easier to accept.
Emily placed two drinks in front of them and told them to drink up. And that’s what Blake did. It didn’t take long for her to down her first drink and ask for another. Mason was still nursing her first one and looked bemused at Blake as she munched on the cheese fries that Blake had all but devoured.
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
“Because I’ve never seen you like this. You’re like legit stressing out. You remind me of Mom right now.”
“I’m having twins, Mason.Twins. That means there’s two of them. Plus Harper; that’s three. And Alexis. That’s four.”
Mason laughed. “Alexis isn’t a kid.”
“Have you met her when she’s needy? She’s already playing thebut I’m pregnantcard.”
“That’s what you get when you knocked her up.”
Blake rolled her eyes. “When they told us it’s better to implant two embryos because that increased the chance of having one baby, I never imaginedbothwould take. In all my freaking out about having a baby, I never considered twins.”
“Well, the good news is you still have like seven months to figure it out.”
“Yeah, seven months to finish the house and get two ofeverything. Two cribs, two car seats. Hell, a new car to put in the two car seats because we can’t all fit in the Civic.”
“What are you going to do about the LEGO?”
